"I could never build an app" - says the person who just had Chatgpt summarize a 50-page contract, rewrite their resume, and plan their vacation. The skills are there. Yet normies still look for people to make them a website. The mental cage is real.
I guess building features that are not a core of your product, but are mandatory or very nice to have and making them look good is what makes a product mature. additional check here, extra validation and suggestions there and that's how QoL improvements are done
vibe coding my pixelart editor is going really well somehow.
began trying to draw and take out some inconveniences in the interface. love it how i can "oh, i this could be better" and have it done in a few minutes and on my device.
there is a long road ahead though
I guess I just figured out why CLI wins over MCP: CLI is agent agnostic. i used two CC and Codex and with CLI i just have enough info in AGENTS.md file how to use tools. No need to maintain things across agents.
YMMV, but I am happy with how it works.
After many attempts to vibe code something serious I now have this thought:
Vibe coding gives you 20% of the progress needed with 5% of the effort.
the rest is on you to make the product reach the desired/mature state.
Hear me out.
We don't need to distribute software as binaries, executables, packages, etc.
Software can just be a .md spec. Everyone will get the spec and their AI builds the app.
What a waste of energy though!
This would be the ultimate slot machine of modern days.
And ofc vendors of AIs will be happy to charge everyone for that.
Also, that's probably not even funny because that's what they are selling anyway
Yesterday I made a PoC of an app for android that mimics one that I was using for a while on iPad. So far so good. Better than any existing ones in Android market. I guess I will now put more effort in a spec and try to one shot it. Again
Now that I arrived at a combo with: gitlab tickets&comments and agents running on my home PC in tmux, and I bought a Moto Razr Fold, work really never stops. Just waiting for the next telegram notification which means I need to give them the next task.
Is burnout coming? Dunno
Asked codex to do a security review of the codebase. While it found some low priority things that I was aware of, it did bring up some unpleasant issues that were there for a couple of years. Fixed most of them already. All while sipping 2nd morning coffee. Wild times!