https://vibecoding.rest/series/prompting-patterns/Recent content in Prompting Patterns on Vibe CodingHugoenMon, 09 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://vibecoding.rest/posts/breaking-down-big-tasks/Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://vibecoding.rest/posts/breaking-down-big-tasks/<p>Vague, large prompts produce vague, large diffs — and vague diffs are the hardest kind to review. The fix isn&rsquo;t a cleverer prompt; it&rsquo;s decomposition.</p> <h2 id="signs-a-task-is-too-big">Signs a task is too big</h2> <ul> <li>You can&rsquo;t describe what &ldquo;done&rdquo; looks like in one sentence</li> <li>The task touches more than two or three unrelated parts of the system</li> <li>You&rsquo;d need to check in multiple times even if a human were doing it</li> </ul> <p>If any of these are true, break it down before prompting.</p>https://vibecoding.rest/posts/context-is-the-whole-game/Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://vibecoding.rest/posts/context-is-the-whole-game/<p>When an agent produces something wrong, the instinct is to blame the model. Most of the time, the real cause is upstream: it was missing context a human in the same seat would have had automatically.</p>