Guardians of the AI, ep.1: Vibe Coding: Assemble Your Misfit Crew

The Guardians didn’t start as a team. They started as a disaster. A talking raccoon with a weapons obsession, a tree that only says one sentence, a green assassin with serious trust issues, and a guy who thinks “Star-Lord” is a respectable nickname.

On paper, that shouldn’t work. In practice, it saves the galaxy.

That’s vibe coding in a nutshell: you throw designers, developers, and AI tools together, and at first it feels like everyone’s speaking different languages. Your Figma Project looks like Rocket’s spare parts bin. The AI keeps spitting out layouts that feel… off. And yet, if you can get this ragtag crew aligned, magic happens.

Here’s where the analogy sharpens.

🪐 The designer plays Star-Lord, bringing intent, vision, and direction (and maybe bad dance moves).

🔧 Developers are Rocket, building, tweaking, and hacking things together until they actually work.

😂 And let’s be honest, every team has its Drax, dead serious, brutally literal, sometimes missing the nuance but still an essential part of the crew.

🎨 Design lesson: Vibe coding only works if the crew has a common goal. AI can accelerate workflows, but without human intent it’s just noise. The real skill is not prompting once and calling it done, but iterating, translating half-baked AI ideas into something meaningful, testable, and user-focused.

The Guardians didn’t need to be perfect, they needed to be aligned. Same with us. Before jumping into AI-assisted design, ask: is this tool helping the team save the galaxy, or just adding more chaos to Knowhere? Read this on LinkedIn