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What the term means, what it costs, and where it stops. Written for people running a company, not for developers.
Fourteen pieces in three parts. Start at the top if the term is new to you. The last part is the one to read before you pay anybody for software, including us.
01 What this actually is
Start here if the term is new. What it means, what it costs against an agency quote, where it genuinely stops, and why so much AI-built software never gets used.
Where the term comes from, what it literally involves, and the three things it gets confused with.
What a custom system cost five years ago, what it costs now, and which part actually got cheaper. It is not the part most people assume.
Four jobs where this genuinely fails. Deliberately published third, before anyone can accuse us of only writing the sales case.
They look identical on a screen. One of them survives contact with a second person.
02 How it is done well
The craft. How to describe what you want, what the building actually costs, which automations pay for themselves first, and where AI inside your own system earns its place.
A blank box asks you to remember everything at once. Nobody does that well, including people who build software for a living.
The difference between a good description and a bad one is not vocabulary. It is which decisions have been made.
What a credit is, what spends one, and the four habits that make a bill larger than it needed to be.
Frequency times minutes times the cost of getting it wrong. Everything else is a preference.
Two different AIs are involved. One builds the software. The other works inside it afterwards, and that is the one that saves the typing.
Twenty-one ideas in seven groups, each with a worked example. Here is what is inside and how to choose the one to start with.
03 What it means for you
Ownership, security, the law and your own trade. Read this part before you pay anybody for software, including us.
The question behind every other question about a supplier: if we stopped tomorrow, what would you still have?
You do not need to understand cryptography to tell whether a supplier has thought about it. You need seven questions and the patience to hear the answers.
Most of the regulation is aimed at somebody else. The parts aimed at you fit on one page, and one of them is already in force.
The €15,000 quote for a job-card system is going. The work that made those projects succeed is not, and it was never the part you were charging for.
Five Bulgarian names come up when you ask about vibe coding. Two are platforms you build on, one is an ERP with a builder inside it, and two are courses.
04 Tutorials
Ten step-by-step guides, from an empty account to a system your team uses on a Monday. The articles explain; the tutorials walk you through it.