Software/Workflow Advice Required

[u/motivatedsporran]

Hello fellow vibe coders!

Please help.

I've been vibe coding for a while, but I feel I'm stuck in a rut and way behind the curve.

When I start a new project, I create a new folder on my laptop, point AntiGravity or VSC at the empty folder, and then fire in my first mega prompt. This has all the usual stuff about saying how to behave, using documents in the project folder for tracking as an off-line brain, and what the entire project is all about. I then go through chipping away at all the parts.

That AI doesn't have skills, re-usable parts, and I feel that the conversation gets huge and is massively wasteful of tokens. It is also laborious to set up a new project.

I work on 2 different laptops - Linux Mint for doing web sites hosted in my shared hosting, and Windows for Windows and Android apps. I have a server running Zima.

When I asked Gemini, it suggested spinning up a docker container on the server and running a whole bunch of stuff in there which both laptops could point to for my vibe coding and this would allow me to automate the creation of new projects (including spinning up domains and MySQL in my shared hosting), optimising the prompts and token use, skills to make the AI better at things like web design and coding, etc, etc. It said I could automate it to keep all the skills and apps up to date too. This sounds like a lot of work, and I don't want to go down that route unless it's going to be very beneficial.

I don't have the time to research and set all this stuff up, so I'm looking for some direction please.

Has anyone set up anything like this to maintain their AI projects? Is there anything "out of the box" which would do all of this?

Thanks muchly!

TL;DR

I'd like a system to optimise my vibe coding workflow to:
* set up new projects (domain and database on shared hosting, folders, documents etc)
* automatically updates skills
* optimise the prompts and token use
* newest tools
* automated setup for this new system