Tricking a vibe coder?
Maybe we can trick vibe coders into becoming coders?
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Vibe Coding vs. Vibe Engineering?
🤔 Interesting read-up on how to incorporate coding agents and testing into a software project: I proposed “vibe engineering” as the grown up version of vibe coding, where expert programmers use coding agents in a professional and responsible way to produce high quality, reliable results. The journey of Emil Stenström is really interesting, as it…
Read the note Vibe Coding vs. Vibe Engineering?Why do companies keep forking VSCode to build AI IDEs?
Well, they had to do it, to break out of the plugin sandbox to get a real agentic system: But having a sandbox also keeps the AI from doing really bad stuff — like deleting a hard drive:
Read the note Why do companies keep forking VSCode to build AI IDEs?Steve Jobs on why owning a product matters in engineering
Check out this quote from Steve Jobs, talking about consulting: Without owning something over an extended period of time—like a few years—where one has a chance to take responsibility for one’s recommendations, where one has to see one’s recommendations through all action stages, and accumulate scar tissue from the mistakes, and pick oneself up off…
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