Vibe-coding for Filmmakers

Writing code with AI coding tools, treated as a first-class form of generative production. Coding and media generation share the same underlying skill: prompting, iterating, selecting, tracking, and paying for generations.

This section is organized around one question: how do we keep beginner coders from making big mistakes?

Contents

• foundations/ — mental models for the coding side: what an agent is, where code runs, terminal and git literacy.
• platforms/ — the spectrum of places you actually write code with a model, from in-browser environments to command-line agents.
• setup-and-safety/ — credentials, API keys, sandboxing, what not to push to git.
• working-with-models/ — choosing models, prompting code, context management, skills, MCP.
• building-software/ — APIs, frameworks vs rolling-your-own, dependencies, reading errors.
• common-traps/ — a named gallery of specific beginner mistakes with the fix for each.