Lazar Jovanovic

4 skills 5 insights

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Building & Shipping Skills

Effective communication with AI requires abandoning the assumption that the tool understands your implicit intent and instead providing absolute specificity.

"AI just don't understand what do you mean when you say, 'You know what I mean?' So you need to be specific. I'm optimizing 100% of my time today on good judgment, clarity, quality, taste."
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When troubleshooting AI-generated software, prioritize understanding the agent's logic and natural language output over the underlying code syntax.

"In order for you to steer the ship, you have to know the instructions, right? And the best way to learn is by building, but treating these tools almost as technical co-founders and educators, and lear..."
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Successful AI orchestration requires shifting your focus from execution to a heavy emphasis on planning and sequential task scoping.

"I can say I spent 80% of my time in planning and chatting and only 20% in executing the plan actually. I'm optimizing for the right kind of speed. Most people optimize for the wrong one."
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Career (separate track) Skills

You can establish yourself in the emerging vibe coder career path by building products in public rather than waiting for traditional hiring.

"It became a job by building in public. You don't need a company to hire you. You can hire yourself as a professional vibe coder first."
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Discovery & Research Skills

As technical implementation becomes commoditized, a professional's primary value shifts toward their ability to recognize and demand world-class design and quality.

"AI, regardless of your background, is an amplifier. If you don't know what you're doing, you're just going to produce garbage faster."
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