About the author
Tom Smykowski.
Founding engineer. Author. Long-time builder of products people actually use. The Vibe Coding Bible is the book Tom wishes someone had handed him in 2024 - distilled from 15+ years of shipping software and a year of going all-in on AI.
Why trust this book
The web is full of AI-coding content written by people who've never shipped to production. The Vibe Coding Bible is different because it's written by someone who has - for over a decade, across teams of every size.
Production track record
- Built and shipped products with startups and billion-dollar companies
- Founding engineer on multiple MVPs that went from zero to launch
- 15+ years specializing in modern frontend and full-system design
- Personal portfolio of indie products: Resume Hedgehog, InviteAPI, Parking Hamster, and Summon The JSON
Author of the Summon The JSON book line
Tom is the author of several books for builders, founders, and engineering teams - all published under Summon The JSON:
- Vibe Coding Bible - 459 pages on prompting, workflows, and shipping production-grade work with ChatGPT, Claude, and Copilot.
- Software Engineering for Vibe Coders - founder-readable engineering literacy.
- AI Coding Cost Optimization - guardrails for individuals and teams using AI in real delivery.
- AI for Founders - a dense field guide for starting and scaling a startup with AI in the loop.
- Ask Better, Get More - real-world ChatGPT practice.
- Scaled - enterprise Angular architecture for long-lived codebases.
See the full catalog on tomasz-smykowski.com/books.
A working engineer first
Tom doesn't teach what he doesn't use. The workflows in the book are the same ones used to ship his own portfolio: newsletters, ebooks, indie products, client work - all delivered with AI as a real teammate, not a gimmick.
Open about mistakes
The book includes a full chapter titled "Vibe Coding Mistakes I Made (So You Don't Have To)" - because the fastest way to get better with AI is to learn from someone who has already wasted the tokens.
What you can expect
Reading the Vibe Coding Bible is like having a senior pair- programmer over your shoulder, who's also been a founding engineer at startups and billion-dollar companies. No fluff. No hype. No filler chapters. Just dev-first strategies you can use the same day.