Vibe Coder's Life is a free newsletter and website about vibe coding and AI news for non-developer builders shipping with Cursor, Claude, and modern AI tools. Raw wins, honest failures, and tool picks that actually work — straight to your inbox.
I'm Viktor — founder, consultant, and serial vibe coder from Budapest. This newsletter shares what I'm building, breaking, and shipping with AI — practical AI news for people who vibe code instead of memorizing syntax.
No hype. Curated news on the tools, models, and moves that actually matter for people who build with AI — not just follow it.
Real progress on side projects and experiments — wins, failures, and what I'd do differently. The stories land in the newsletter.
Honest takes on the stack behind this newsletter, with affiliate links where they exist so you always know the score.
Fast-moving space needs a fast-moving newsletter. Short, readable, and always worth five minutes of your morning.
If you're interested to see what I'm using — AI assistants, hosting, automation, and the rest of the stack — check out the tools. Honest notes, affiliate links called out, and everything I reach for week to week.
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Open-source, local-first, agent-native design. I wired it into Cursor, pointed it at Color Books AI with intentionally short prompts, and the mockups came back better than they had any right to.
Google shipped a sharper Flash workhorse, a faster Lite tier, and 3.5 Flash Cyber inside CodeMender. Refresh Gemini web today; update the mobile apps if the new models are missing — and stop holding your breath for 3.5 Pro just yet.
Three months of premium AWS Skill Builder AI courses across Central and Eastern Europe, 50% off the cert exam if you finish — and a Codecademy backup if you miss the cut.
Meta's agentic coding model undercuts Opus and GPT on price — and your public Instagram photos may still feed Meta AI unless you opt out. Two-minute privacy steps inside.
SpaceXAI's $60B Cursor deal just produced a co-trained frontier model. Grok 4.5 is fast, cheap, and live in Cursor — but you don't have to use Grok to benefit.
Sol, Terra, and Luna bring Mythos-class agentic coding — but a US-government partner list means most vibe coders are still on the sidelines.
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Vibe coding means building software by describing outcomes to AI tools — Cursor, Claude, Lovable, Bolt — and iterating in plain language instead of hand-writing every line. Vibe Coder's Life documents that workflow for non-developers who still ship real products.
Vibe Coder's Life is a free website and newsletter by Viktor. It publishes AI news, vibe coding guides, a searchable AI tools directory, and build-in-public posts.
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Browse 50+ tools — Cursor, Claude, Replit, Lovable, v0, n8n, Udemy, and more. Search by name and sort A–Z.
Most builders pair an AI IDE like Cursor with a frontier model (Claude, GPT, or Grok), plus hosting on Vercel and a database like Neon. Our tools directory lists what we actually use and recommend.
Start with a clear outcome, pick one AI coding assistant, and iterate in plain language — fix one feature at a time. Read our migration and stack guides for real examples of shipping without writing every line by hand.
There is no single winner — it depends on your budget and workflow. Cursor is the most popular IDE for vibe coding; Claude and GPT excel at reasoning. Compare options in our tools page and follow AI news posts when models update.
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