I've been heavily vibe coding for a couple of personal projects. A free kids typing game and bringing back a multiplayer game I played a lot as a kid back to life both with pretty good success.

Things I personally find work well.

1. Chat through with the AI first the feature you want to build. In codex using vscode I always switch to chat mode, talk through what I am trying to achieve and then once myself and the AI are in "agreement" switch to agent mode. Google's antigravity sort of does this by default and I think it's probably the correct paradigm to use.

2. Get the basics right first. It's easy for the AI to produce a load of slop, but using my experience of development I feel I am (sort of) able to guide the AI in advance in a similar way to how I would coach junior developers.

3. Get the AI to write tests first. BDD seems to work really well for AI. The multiplayer game I was building seemed to regress frequently with just unit tests alone, but when I threw cucumber into the mix things suddenly got a lot more stable.

4. Practice, the more I use AI the more I believe prompting is a skill in itself. It takes time to learn how to get the best out of an Agent.

What I love about AI is the time it gives me to create these things. I'd never been able to do this before and I find it very rewarding seeing my "work" being used by my kids and fellow nostalgia driven gamers.

> 4. Practice, the more I use AI the more I believe prompting is a skill in itself. It takes time to learn how to get the best out of an Agent.

This would have been my tip, as well.

Talk to others who are good with these tools to learn from what they're doing and read blogs/docs/HN for ideas, but most importantly, make time for yourself on a daily/weekly/monthly/whatever basis to practice with the tool.

It's taken me about a year of consistent practice to feel comfortable with LLM coding. It just takes time, like learning any other technology.