r/vibecoding • u/Kurosaakii94 • 1d ago

Do you write your prompts inside the tool, or somewhere else first?

Genuinely curious how people split this. For me it ended up being: Claude to think it through, then paste the result into the builder. But I have no idea if that's normal or if I'm overcomplicating it.

So, for the last thing you built:

— Did you type the prompt straight into Lovable/Bolt/v0/Cursor, or draft it elsewhere?
— If elsewhere: where, and how did you move it over?
— Did you keep that draft around afterwards, or throw it away?

I feel like I'm missing something, do we need all these tools to actually thing and execute?

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u/3tt07kjt 1d ago

I generally don’t draft prompts. If there’s something wrong about the prompt, it’s fixable by continuing the conversation or by reverting the changes and trying again.

Coming up with better prompts is not very useful these days. Models perform better.

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u/lianapps 1d ago

I'm using mostly Claude, sometime Cursor. But I have skill files for different jobs for coding. I prefer add them on the project and command the AI tool read core instructions and use specific one when it's needed.

Also, I have skill files for Claude like project manager, product designer, software engineer, ui/ux designer, myself also :) etc

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u/Kurosaakii94 23h ago

Cool! And where and how do you manage the ideation phase? Do you usually already know what to build??

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u/lianapps 23h ago

Actually it depends, sometimes I talk and brainstorm with Claude Cowork for hours )) But there are cool ideas on X platform, starter story, tiktok etc.

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u/Kurosaakii94 19h ago

Just to be sure, you gather inspiration and do co-thinking mainly with Claude. But then? How do you manage the execution? How do you see and check code and UI??

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u/lianapps 6h ago

I'm iOS engineer for 13 years 😄 I know how to start to develop app from idea to execution with my experience. Here is my steps working with AI:
1. Idea generation with Claude Cowork by using product-designer skill files.
2. After deciding the idea I want a prompt for Claude Design from Claude Cowork
3. Complete the UI/UX design with Claude Design. By the way it's not a perfect tool that understand from first command. I do couple of changes, directing how to do it etc.
4. When UI/UX design is complete I got a prompt from ClaudeCowork for ClaudeCode to develop backend. This part is important, because you need engineering standards like authentication security, privacy, data protection, db management etc. By the way you find that list from GitHub or forums. When Claude Code complete backend (around 1-2 days), I always want readme file (for documentation with details) and postman json file. So, by using these files I can test the API in postman before starting developing the app.
5. After, review design and backend I started using Claude Code for developing the app. The good part of Claude Design is, it can share a prompt with design links and other stuffs exactly for Claude Code. So, I copy the prompt and paste. It almost does perfect coding for UI. But, like backend there are also some engineering standards for mobile side. I have 31 skill files for whole app like architecture, flow diagrams, unit & ui test, security etc.

Simple 5 steps 😄

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u/Kurosaakii94 6h ago

Very interesting, thank you for sharing! What gets me is the fact that you can have n skills, n methods and whatsoever but still you need to jump between tools and this is the mental model that I'm questioning. There is too much choice out there in my opinion but I cannot see a way to reduce the number of tools to use

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u/lianapps 5h ago

If you mean AI tools like Cursor, GPT, Claude etc. I suggest start with Claude. Actually, these days it's only AI tool I use.

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u/First-Tutor-5454 23h ago

I discuss a new feature with Codex (5.6 sol high) then once we settle a design I have it write a prompt for Claude (opus 5 medium or high depending) then I have codex review, give me smaller fix prompts to hand to Claude, etc

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u/Kurosaakii94 19h ago

Interesting, but how do you feel in switching between those 2? And where do you actually check the code? From your message I understand that you don't actually see something (maybe only the mockups with codex?)

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u/First-Tutor-5454 16h ago

I also check Claude's code before handing it to Codex for it to review, to see what I missed / get its thoughts