Essays
Opinion pieces and reflective takes on the practice
Writing
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How I De-Vibed a Vibe-Coded NLP App
Earlier in the year, I used AI to build me a prompt analyzer app in 20 mins. It took me weeks to wade through the slop and apply the right methods to make it work correctly.
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Agentic Coding for Non-Vibe Coders
A workflow for building real things (not demos) with AI coding agents
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The Dopamine Trap of AI Coding
The victory of solving a hard problem was sweeter when things used to take time. Now, getting a dopamine hit from watching an agent do all the work, is not the same at all.
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Local AI matters, but it's not ready yet
Frontier models are extraordinary. On-device alternatives are not there yet for the average person. But the privacy and cost math is shifting fast.