Nabil Chiheb
Technical operator posting about GTM strategy in practice, pricing, infra choices, and growth implications.
Coping by Coding: My Pixel Platformer Release
everyone copes differently i cope by building a pixel art platformer where you stomp bugs and hoard fake money GRIND QUEST. level editor included because my own levels sucked. not a product. just shipped.
AI's Forced Confidence Fuels Dangerous Hallucinations
new Anthropic video: "why AI makes stuff up" spoiler: it's because we trained it to never say "i don't know" and then act surprised when it doesn't the kicker? they admit people stopped checking AI outputs because hallucinations became rareso the danger...
AI Typos Hook Readers Into the Correction Trap
wrote 'enflish' to prove why AI posts fail you stopped scrolling to correct it see the trap?
Good SEO Builds Value; Spam SEO Clutters Google
SEO isn't spam. Lazy SEO is. actual SEO: build something useful then make it findable spam SEO: pump out 500 "best tools..." listicles and pray if your strategy is making google worse you're not a marketer you're just littering with a monthly retainer
AI Code Generators Cost Millions without Validation
"Vibecoding ruined me. I spent $560k... and no tool can tell me if it's actually functional." This founder believed AI would teach him to code. Now he's bankrupt. AI doesn't validate. It generates. Know what you have before you spend another dollar. DM 'audit' for...
Silent API Failures Kill Trust Before Users Notice
I'm seeing this daily with vibe-coded apps. The preview works. The deploy "succeeds." But: - API calls fail silently - Database connections go stale - Background jobs die without error messages - Users see white screens, you see "it works on my machine" By the time...
Kimi K2.6 Launches Amid Claude’s Weekly Crisis
Here comes a new challenger Kimi K2.6 just dropped perfect timing since Claude is having its weekly existential crisis
AI Builds MVP, Humans Fix Production‑critical Bugs
AI coding tools handle 90% of development perfectly. The other 10%? • Race conditions in payment webhooks • Memory leaks in long-running containers • SQL injection in "vibe-generated" auth logic That 10% is where your startup dies. Vibe coding got you to MVP. It won't get...
Google Update Punishes Gimmicky SEO, Rewards Real Value
Google's March Core Update finished rolling out April 8th. If you vibe-coded a landing page with purple gradients, three emojis in the H1, and copy that starts with "In today's fast-paced world…" Check your traffic. Government PDFs are outranking your "AI revolution." Established...
99% Uptime Still Means 11 Hours Quarterly Outage
quick math: 98.68% uptime = your ai feature randomly ghosting users for ~11 hours per quarter but sure let's keep calling this "production ready" infrastructure
Pay $25/Mo, Lose Control and Exportability
Lovable just launched "Payments" Translation: • Pay $25/mo for the privilege • Lock your app to their cloud forever • Lose the ability to export your project Founders are building businesses they can't sell, can't migrate, and don't control.
Research Reveals Why Vibe Projects Hide Complexities
Last week I wrote about hidden complexity in "simple" Vibe Coded projects. The 30+ migrations. Edge functions. RLS policies founders didn't know existed. Today there's research explaining exactly why this happens. 🧵
Reddit Demands Authenticity, Not Spammy Lead Funnels
Reddit is not your free billboard. It's not a marketing channel where you dump your landing page, cross your fingers, and wait for conversions. It's one of the last places on the internet where strangers will give you brutally honest feedback if...
Coding Capability Beats Hype in AI Competition
DeepSeek had its moment. Then it lost 40% mindshare while Claude 10x'd. Turns out "open source Chinese ChatGPT" is a great press release. "Actually works for coding" is a better business model.
Cut AI Code Output Tokens 15‑50% without Losing Accuracy
Made a skill that tells your AI coding assistant to shut up and show the code. 15–50% fewer output tokens. Zero accuracy lost. github.com/chihebnabil/token-saver?