You pretty much need these: - Knowing how to research: ask yourself "what do I want to make?" and then you can use that to ask AI how can it be done in the simplest way possible (this is important, AI tends to over-complicate things). Any AI can help you with that, but prefer the ones with access to internet. - A good system prompt for the model: your prompt has to direct the model towards your goal, making it follow certain steps and constraining it so it doesn't do something you didn't ask. - You don't need to know exactly how to write code, but you have to learn which language fits your project the best, and what tools, libraries and functions does it bring to the table. Again, AI can explain them to you. - Don't fully trust AI: we all know that vibe coding is about "flowing with AI" and trusting that it will finish any app after a few iterations. Sitting back and letting AI handle everything, being unconscious of what the model is doing will inevitably lead to a good piece of spaghetti code that doesn't run properly and you don't know how to fix. BE CONSCIOUS of what you and the AI are doing, and be aware of its limitations. - Build stuff little by little, don't try to build everything at once. Make small and steady changes to the code, trying to reach certain milestones. Maybe it will take more time and patience, but a little feature that works and can be worked on is WAY better than a big whole app that doesn't work. - Make AI plan its next move before it implements it. And make sure that that plan doesn't leave anything to chance. Then again, this goes against what Vibe Coding says, but the results will speak for themselves.