Case Studies

Vibe coding case studies and the decisions behind the work.

Product engineering, open-source workflows, and personal projects — with the evidence behind each result.

A personal translation project that became a shipped language, maintained within the constraints of VR.

Turkish ships in the game. The August 2026 source audit found 2,499 translated strings out of 2,569 live entries (97.3%).

A free Turkish fan patch built around a hand-maintained glossary and review inside the game.

4,586 translated strings in a free Steam Workshop patch, with 99 active subscribers at the August 2026 snapshot.

Replacing a scientific vision model with a classifier trained for RealDex's 5,077 animal species.

39 MB, 5,077 species, and 61.3% top-1 accuracy on the documented holdout, up from a 46.8% BioCLIP baseline.

The open-source planning workflow I wrote for my own projects, and what its growth actually means.

An MIT-licensed template with 2,806 GitHub stars, 353 forks, and seven releases at the August 2026 snapshot.

Public community data, careful normalization, and the conclusions that survived another year of responses.

2,364 responses across 2022, 2023, 2025, and 2026, with openly documented trends and corrections.

One idea carried across a web product, a browser extension, and a native mobile port.

A live web app supporting 82 currencies and seven languages, a browser extension, and a mobile app in release QA.