# Vibe Coding: Building a Personal Blog from Scratch > Source: > Published: 2026-07-24 02:00:46+00:00 # Vibe Coding: Building a Personal Blog from Scratch ## My Approach to Vibe Coding There is a misconception that vibe coding replaces the need to understand software. In my experience, it's more about treating the AI as a literal, high-speed collaborator. The AI can spin up structure instantly, but it has no concept of what "good" means for a specific project and frequently misses its own bugs. My actual AI workflow looked like this: **Intent over Implementation:** I described what the blog should*do*, not which specific components to use.**PR-Style Review:** I treated every generation as a pull request that needed approval before being merged.**Architectural Ownership:** I made the final calls on page routing and content structure.**Manual Intervention:** If a feature "looked" right in the preview but was logically flawed, I stepped in to rewrite the code. The real skill here isn't writing less code; it's prompt engineering and knowing exactly when to stop trusting the preview and start reading the source. ## The Tech Stack and Execution I used Google AI Studio's Build mode to generate a React application. For those unfamiliar, this isn't a black box; it provides a chat panel alongside a live code editor and a preview pane. One specific feature that actually saves time is the annotation mode, which lets you click an element in the preview to request a change rather than trying to describe the UI location in text. To keep the project stable, I avoided a custom backend. A blog is the perfect test case for this because the content is the priority, not the underlying platform. Here is the general structure of the prompt I used to kick off the build: ``` Build a minimal, modern personal blog in React. Home page: list of posts with title, date, short excerpt. Post page: full article content, clean typography, no sidebar. ``` The result was a fast, readable site deployed to a `.ai.studio` subdomain. By keeping the scope narrow and the requirements explicit, I avoided the "hallucination loop" that often happens with larger, more complex AI-generated apps. [Next Skim: My BYOK AI Email Client for Windows →](/en/threads/2653/)