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The Setup

The labyrinth of global AI regulations is much, with rules and requirements that are messy and complex. Keeping track of applicable regulations for different countries is a lot to handle, so I decided to build a quick reference tool to help the community.

The Story you didn’t ask for

This project was a great way to test out some iconic "vibe coding" — the rapid-prototyping-messy-spaghetti-code-kind of vibe coding focused on getting a functional proof of concept from zero to one.

To make this happen, I chose to use a tool called Lovable, which I picked because of its no-code nature, and how it’s been making waves lately. I wanted to see what the process was like for someone without a deep coding background.

The experience started off strong and proved itself a test of patience by the end. Prompt by prompt, tweak by tweak, I got closer to what I envisioned - which to be fair was simpler than I honestly could be. While being super conscious in prompting allowed for a quick pipeline from idea to a working prototype, the agent mode—which is now a mainstream feature—felt a bit janky at times. It was a constant fight to get the prompts just right; to get a feel for what could be implied, versus what would need to be explicitly defined.

The biggest hurdle, however, hit once I got about halfway through my work: The features were there, and now it was time to stabilize the application. I ran into a major issue where my authentication broke while I was implementing data management features. It took eight attempts of full diagnosis, fix attempts, rollbacks, and refactoring to finally get it working. Did it eventually get the job done? Absolutely. Did it involve more sessions than I'd like to admit? Also, yes.

But in the end, I emerged as a much better prompter and refactorer because of the struggle.

The Results

This tool—a world map of AI regulations—is the first result of that process. While it doesn't cover data and privacy regulations, it serves as a helpful reference (though you should always do your own research).

You can look forward to more tools as I come up with them. Let me know if there are other tools that you want to see built!

Stay Curious - Stay Creative!

-✌🏽 Sam

P.S. You’ve got feedback, bug fix requests, and tooling ideas; send me a note: [email protected]