I Don't Start with a Plan. Here's What I Do First.

The difference between vibe coding and scribe coding is in the instructions. In the first article of this series, I introduced scribe coding : plan-driven, written-first, deliberate. Where vibe coders feel their way through, scribe coders write their way through. You do the thinking in markdown; the AI does the typing in code. That article showed the skeleton: a four-step plan cycle that keeps work on track across sessions. This article is the muscle: three practices that make the skeleton move.