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248: AI All the Way Down

248: AI All the Way Down

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Ben had been riding high on vibe coding—throwaway scripts, zero attachment, pure productivity magic. Then he tried the same approach on a project he actually cares about and watched that 10x feeling crater to something closer to 10%. The bottleneck, it turns out, was never the typing.

The hosts dig into what it feels like to let go of code you used to care about, whether "write-only code" is actually the future, and the growing gap between building software and keeping it alive.

Links
  • Vibe Coding by Gene Kim & Steve Yegge - The audiobook on AI-assisted development
  • 1Password: From Magic to Malware - How OpenClaw's agent skills became a supply chain attack surface
  • TLDR Newsletter - Source of the "write-only code" concept

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With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media.

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