There's a guy on Reddit making a full-time living fixing vibe-coded apps. But the most interesting thing he said wasn't about the founders hiring him. It was this: "About 70% of what I end up fixing is stuff the founder could have checked themselves in an afternoon." That line stuck with me. Because it means the rescue business isn't booming because building with AI is too hard. It's booming because nobody told founders what to check before they shipped. And I see this every week. People are shipping real products. Apps they described in plain English. Apps they prompted into existence. Apps with paying customers. Honestly, I love that. That is the promise of this whole moment. But there is a quiet gap between: "It works on my screen." and "This is safe to put in front of customers." That gap is exactly where the rescue invoices come from. The good news? That gap is checkable. You do not need to become an engineer to close it. You just need a short checklist you run every single time before you deploy. Here are the four things that break most often and how to fix them: https://open.substack.com/pub/thisaitooldoesthat/p/the-vibe-coding-rescue-economy-exists?r=7rf2o6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Most businesses are paying for the same workflow five times. Not five different problems. The same problem. A lead comes in. One tool captures it. Another schedules the call. Another sends reminders. Another creates the invoice. Another tracks the customer. And somehow none of them talk to each other. So someone on the team becomes responsible for stitching the whole thing together. Checking inboxes. Updating records. Moving information between tabs. Sending reminders. Following up manually. Making sure nothing falls through the cracks. Eventually, one person becomes the integration layer for the entire business. Usually the owner. Sometimes an admin. Always the bottleneck. Because the real cost of software isn't the subscription. It's the invisible work created between subscriptions. The context switching. The duplicate data entry. The dropped handoffs. The opportunities that disappear somewhere between "someone should follow up" and "someone thought someone else did." This is why most of my AI work starts with a much less exciting question than: "Which AI tools should we use?" Instead I ask: "What should happen automatically the moment this happens?" Lead submitted. Proposal sent. Meeting booked. Invoice paid. Customer onboarded. Most service businesses already own the software they need. What they're missing is the conversation between the software they already pay for. And ironically, getting your tools to talk to each other is often cheaper than buying another one. I'm not anti-SaaS. I pay for plenty of subscriptions myself. But I think we've trained business owners to solve operational friction with another app. Sometimes the answer isn't another subscription. Sometimes it's introducing the subscriptions you already have to each other. What's the most frustrating manual handoff in your business right now?

Anthropic quietly built a full free university for Claude and most people still have no idea it exists. 12 courses. Beginner to advanced. Zero paywall. Free certificates. For non-technical business owners: Claude 101 → https://lnkd.in/eQi5er-Q AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations → https://lnkd.in/eEy6ckcx AI Fluency for Small Businesses → https://lnkd.in/ekk2KQMR Introduction to Claude Cowork → https://lnkd.in/eGaMsPnZ AI Capabilities and Limitations → https://lnkd.in/e66qWNAy For builders (no CS degree required): Claude Code 101 → https://lnkd.in/eZJUpdn6 Claude Code in Action → https://lnkd.in/eJ_eQ5rg Introduction to Agent Skills → https://lnkd.in/ehwpkGTm Introduction to Subagents → https://lnkd.in/ejjZYsTU Building with the Claude API → https://lnkd.in/eHrnjRdq Claude Code (DeepLearning.AI, taught with Anthropic) → https://lnkd.in/eHcQFMPy Claude Code Essentials (freeCodeCamp, 6 hours) → https://lnkd.in/eRcZ3ckh Bonus, if you want this applied to a real business: My 6 LinkedIn Learning courses on vibe coding + AI skills → https://lnkd.in/eidASJmJ Free build walkthroughs on my YouTube → https://lnkd.in/e8t3JYGZ Number 8 is the one I'd start with if you run a business. Agent Skills are reusable instructions Claude applies automatically. It's how I turned my repetitive work into systems that run themselves. You don't need a $1000 course. You need one of these and a real problem from your own business to point it at. Pick one. Finish it this week. Then build something with it. I shipped 5+ AI apps in 3 months, this stack gives you everything you need to build.

Here's the exact 4-part client-acquisition system I'd hand any business owner who told me "I need more clients but I hate doing outreach." The system: 1 → Research, automated. A prompt that takes a company name and hands back a one-page brief: what they do, recent news, the gap your offer fills, the decision-maker, and 3 personalised hooks. 30 minutes of manual research → under 2. 2 → First touch, in your voice. Feed AI 5 of your best past emails so it learns your tone. Now every first-touch draft sounds like you, not a template. Personalised at scale is the whole game. 3 → Follow-up, on rails. The money is in touches 2–4, which is exactly where everyone quits. A simple sequence sends them for you conversation-first, no hard pitch. 4 → Qualify before you spend a minute. Only positive replies reach you. I built this idea into https://lnkd.in/ewbqcAty as an AI Readiness Audit my site qualifies for interest before I ever get on a call. Your marketing site should earn its rent. You don't touch the busywork. You touch the warm conversations. That's the reorder that fixes "I procrastinate on outreach" because the part you dreaded is no longer yours to do. What's the biggest part of client acquisition you wish you could automate? https://lnkd.in/gVXfX7iB

Quick story: Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 (their most advanced public model) a few days back. I jumped in early and pointed it at my own web app, speka.me — ran a full vulnerability pass on it — and it genuinely crushed it. I burned through about 4–6 hours of usage, hit a 2-day cooldown, and planned to resume Monday. Woke up and the model was completely gone. Turns out the U.S. government issued an export control directive (national security grounds) and Anthropic had to pull Fable 5 + Mythos 5 for ALL customers to comply. So I basically got a tiny window to stress-test speka.me with one of the most capable models ever shipped before it got yanked. Some of my clients were lining up to try it and missed the window entirely. Anthropic says they think it's a misunderstanding and want to restore access — so maybe not the end. 💬 Did anyone here get hands-on with Fable 5 before it went offline? What did you build or test with it? Share below.