Vibe coding can crystallize the fuzzy future into clarity very quickly.
Vibe coding can crystallize the fuzzy future into clarity very quickly. Collapsing the complexity of the future into complication. "Does it work or not?"
Topic: vibe coding
48 chunks · 25 episodes
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- vibe coding appears in 48 chunks across 25 episodes, from 2025-03-10 to 2026-02-16.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 6/2/25 (2025-06-02), with 6 observations on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with infinite software, llms, and Claude, while by chunk count it sits between vast majority and social media; its yearly rank moved from #8 in 2025 to #27 in 2026.
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Vibe coding addiction is a real thing.
Vibe coding addiction is a real thing. With LLMs, it's easy as a productivity junkie to get "addicted." You're the bottleneck. If only you did a few more moments...
It might be that PMs get addicted to vibe coding more easily.
It might be that PMs get addicted to vibe coding more easily. Most have a CS background of some kind. Their identity was never "I'm an engineer" but rather "how do I unblock engineers." Now they can...
Different types of engineers feel differently about LLM-assisted engineering.
...ering. The people who got into engineering for the fun of it are over the moon. Vibe coding allows you to achieve significantly more than ever possible as an individual. The people who got into engineering as a great white collar job hate it...
I think I'm addicted to vibe coding.
I think I'm addicted to vibe coding.[co] I do it literally every waking minute, to some degree. It's so productive that when I'm not doing it, I feel like I'm missing out. Also, it has ...
Rebecca Kaden: I Don't Want to Build Apps (or at least not the ones I actually use)
Rebecca Kaden: I Don't Want to Build Apps (or at least not the ones I actually use) Making apps, even when you can vibe code, is hard. Some people find it intrinsically enjoyable as a hobby, but the vast majority of people won't. Even in a world where the vast majority of software we use is created
Infinite software is not vibe coding.
Infinite software is not vibe coding. Vibecoding is one ingredient into infinite software. It's now commodity. It's not even the most important ingredient, because now you can take it fo...
I think I'm addicted to vibe coding with agents.
I think I'm addicted to vibe coding with agents. I have a substrate that is a perfect fit for vibe-coded throwaway software. It's fun to see what I can get Claude Code to build. It has ...
If you're playing against an adversary orders of magnitude faster than you, you might think it'd dumb but it's actually running circles around you.
If you're playing against an adversary orders of magnitude faster than you, you might think it'd dumb but it's actually running circles around you. For example: Blindsight, or The Black Mirror episode Plaything. If the LLMs had a shared memory, then they could land various individually innocuous thi
Vibe coded software is fragile and shallow.
Vibe coded software is fragile and shallow. It looks great but you can break it easily.
An external analyst thinks that vibe-coding traffic is falling off a cliff.
An external analyst thinks that vibe-coding traffic is falling off a cliff. For example, a 50% decline for Lovable from June to September. Of course, external data is of very poor quality. But it does track to me as being plausible. It turns out that as a non-technical person you can't ship a produc
Vibe coded software requires the user trusting the creator's intentions and competency.
Vibe coded software requires the user trusting the creator's intentions and competency. Micro-apps that don't work with data are limited to widgets, micro-games, and fart apps. Micro-apps that work with data are either 1) from your friend who you trust not to actively hurt you intentionally, or 2) n
Today if you vibe code a tool, you can't share a version of it that contains data with anyone.
Today if you vibe code a tool, you can't share a version of it that contains data with anyone.
I want a tool to vibe code with my personal data.
... be synchronized with others (e.g. my husband.) So that implies it can' just be vibe coding individually or locally on your data. MCP is about interacting with your personal data, but with prompts, not UI. Vibe coding needs to make sure it c...
Vibe coded software without chat is too stodgy, hard to change.
Vibe coded software without chat is too stodgy, hard to change. But once you add a chat component in the system, it allows you to get the best of both. You can start off with the flexibility of a chat, and then as you get more momentum with a use case, harden it over time into more mechanistic, repe
I think we're seeing the top of the hill for straightforward vibe coding tools.
I think we're seeing the top of the hill for straightforward vibe coding tools. It's striking how convergent the marketing positioning is across the tools–even when long-standing products like AirTable get into the game. T...
Vibe coding is a power saw.
Vibe coding is a power saw. We need a SawStop to make it safe. The first platform that is idiot proof for vibe coded software will be powerful.
Vibe coding is like driving with rear wheel steering.
Vibe coding is like driving with rear wheel steering. It's fine at small angles. But impossible at large angles. It's auto de-cohering.
Val Town asserts that vibe code is legacy code.
Val Town asserts that vibe code is legacy code. This tracks to me: legacy code is code that works but that you didn't write and don't understand. If you were to refactor or improve it it would take some time to "get in the loop" with it. It works, but it's not pretty. Vibe code by default has the sa
This piece makes the case that the vibecoder's career path is doomed.
This piece makes the case that the vibecoder's career path is doomed. Because vibe coding gets less and less effective as the code base grows in size and as you need to maintain the code it produces. You still need an expert human in the l...