I’m addicted to vibe-coding, and the reason is simple: thanks to coding tools like Codex, Claude Code, and others, I sincerely think that I can build the next Amazon, Google, or Notion from my bedroom—and also sometimes from when I’m sitting on the potty, because I can still send remote commands from my phone. Coding…
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A great guide on how how to write good specs for AI coding agents. It’s aimed at professional coders but even idiots like me can steal a lot of things from this guide.
Leila Clark on the hype around AI coding:
Since Claude can’t create the good abstractions. Claude’s powers are limited by how good the blocks you give it are. Have no illusions; Claude cannot reproduce Sentry and Terraform and Playwright. These are incredibly complex and well-designed pieces of code. And since Claude can’t create good abstractions on its own, there’s a limit to how much anyone can do with Claude alone. Even though everyone on X thinks you can vibe-code all software, I think the opposite is true: the value of good abstractions and well-designed infrastructure has never been higher.
If I had to boil down my criticism of Claude to one sentence, it’s this: Claude doesn’t have a soul. It doesn’t want anything. It certainly doesn’t yearn to create beautiful things. So it doesn’t produce good solutions. It doesn’t write elegant abstractions where there were none; it doesn’t manicure the code garden.
Tymek Zapata on the future of coding: The new leverage comes from moving one layer up. Instead of doing every task ourselves, we design systems that can do them for us. A single agent can now execute autonomously what used to require long hours my time, freeing my attention for higher-level decisions, design, judgment.…
Read the note →Note: This is stream of consciousness. I’m working through my thoughts on AI coding tools in real time, and I’m not interested in being measured about it. I woke up this morning and I’m nodding my head so much in agreement that if I keep this up, there’ll be a new medical disorder named after me—the nodding head…
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