7 AI coding techniques that quietly make you elite

What separates casual vibe coders from elite builders? It's not better prompts. It's systems. Here's the exact framework I use to keep AI projects production-ready.

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ZDNET's key takeaways

• Treat the AI like another developer, not a magic box.
• Encode design systems and user profiles in system prompts.
• Every fixed bug becomes a permanent lesson learned in the project's DNA.

Ever since the days of punched cards, I've self-identified as a programmer and a computer scientist. The programmer side is the practical side of my engineering identity, the person who crafts code line by line. The computer scientist is the theoretician, the scientist, the strategist, and the planner.

While I love the theory and science of computers, I've always enjoyed the hands-on feeling of cutting code. I think it ...