What I learned vibe coding for seven months

After seven months of building a strategy game with Claude Code, a handful of habits have stuck. None of them are profound in isolation. The compounding is what matters. TDD is king Every new behavior must go through the red-green approach. If you do it the other way around, the agent is going to lie to you. It will make fake implementations with TODO, for now, or “temporary” logic, then write a perfectly green test and claim that everything is done. ...

April 30, 2026 · 3 min · Azat Jalilov