Short YouTube clip (Jason M. Lemkin) explaining how to use AI (Claude, ChatGPT) to turn a detailed, human-written spec into a rich PRD for ‘vibe coding’ prosumer platforms. Emphasizes spending time (hours) to write exhaustive, stream-of-consciousness requirements, iterating with AI to identify missing flows (e.g., authentication), and then feeding the polished PRD into vibe-coding platforms to improve output quality.
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If you've never done it before, it's actually fine. Because this is the beauty of AI. If you spend five minutes of research on anyone talking about prosumer vibe coding, vibe coding without developer, you're going to hear this advice, and it is great advice. And this is part of the magic of vibe coding. You've got to build a rich prd, a rich spec. If you don't, you've never done it. But it's actually the only complicated part, is just doing it. So if you don't know how to do this, it's okay. You've never done it before. It's actually fine, because this is the beauty of AI. Go into a Google Doc and write two or three pages of everything you want this app to do, everything you want. Everything. Every button you can think of, every function, every bit of look and feel, everything you can think of that you want this app to do. Write it your way in human language and then cut and paste it and put it into Claude and say, turn this into a PRD for me, for replit or for lovable, and they'll actually do a great job. They will take your. This is where AI shines. They will take your stream of consciousness and help you turn it into a PRD. You can even ask Claude or ChatGPT, what am I missing? What have I not thought through on my spec, on my prd? And they will be great. And they will say, you did not think through user authentication. You did not think through this flow. They will come up and. And they will say, do you want me to help you think through that? Yes, please. Give me four or five bullets to add to my spec, and you will come out of that convo. And it may take you a couple hours to do this, not five minutes with a great PRD that you can upload to a lovable replet, et cetera, and get going. And this will radically increase the quality of what you VI code having a great spec. And so the platforms themselves will do a bunch of this, but it's much, much better if you slow it down, slow it down and do it ahead of time, because these vibe coding platforms work at light speed and they'll encourage you to cut every corner, to skip steps. And that's not what you want to do here. Define it as much as possible. Take hours to do this, then iterate it with Claude, then ask Claude what you're missing and then put it into your. Into your. Into the prosumer Vibe code you're at. You're doing.
