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Tag: vibe-coding

Shifting from Code Writing to Reviewing

Leaning onto AI coding workflow

When I built GlobeTrotte last year, vibe-coding had just begun gaining traction but I was the “weird guy” who coded everything by hand. I spent a little over 4 weeks building the backend service (Go), iOS app (SwiftUI), Android app (Jetpack Compose), and web (TanStack) all by myself. I like to think that’s pretty fast for an app of that level of complexity. The tradeoff here however, was that I have almost no time to “handle the business side”. ...

April 2, 2026

Early takes on vibe-coding

Is it a mid-level engineer yet?

I keep hearing about vibe-coding and I’ve always written the majority of code myself. While at Meta, I got a chance to try out CodeCompose. It worked really well as an autocomplete but when it tried to do anything more than 5 lines at a time, it would - on many occasions - commit bugs that aren’t immediately obvious at first sight. Generally, I’ve caught them by looking at the generated code and wondering “huh this isn’t how I’d do this, why?”. That said, it definitely helped me code and ship faster especially on mundane tasks. Vibe-coding though, seems like taking it to a whole new level (using even less supervision and care on the code being committed). ...

July 3, 2025