12 Practical Guides + Podcast Series for Vibe Coding Competition Participants

[robertlagrasse]

Hey everyone! I have been building Geotab Geoff for the Vibe Coding Competition and wrote up 12 practical guides based on problems I solved along the way. Sharing them here in case they save anyone time.

Geotab-Specific Guides

• MyGeotab Add-In Gotchas - 9 undocumented issues that will bite you building Add-Ins (CSS stripping, IIFE-only builds, session auth)
• Ace AI Integration Patterns - The 3-step async API and how to keep Ace context in multi-turn conversations
• OData Data Connector Recipes - Query patterns for fleet analytics, KPIs, and safety metrics

Architecture and Infrastructure

• Cloud Run GPU on a Budget - Scale-to-zero NVIDIA L4 GPU at approximately $0.004/request
• The Five-Cent Pipeline - Per-unit cost estimation for AI pipelines
• MCP Server Patterns - Building a FastMCP server to query Geotab from Claude Desktop
• Server-Side Safety Net - Deterministic overrides for LLM outputs

Vibe Coding Process

• The 18,920-Line First Commit - How to prompt for a full-stack architecture in one shot
• Steal From Another Industry - Cross-domain product design (fleet safety as speech analytics)
• AI Evaluating AI - Using AI to run gap analysis on your own hackathon project
• When to Correct the AI - Four categories of human corrections AI cannot self-identify
• Prompt to Multimedia - Composable AI pipelines for content generation

Podcast Episodes

Also created a 12-episode podcast series covering all these topics (two-voice AI-generated audio via Cloud TTS): Browse all episodes on GitHub

Happy to answer questions about any of these topics. Good luck to everyone in the competition!