248: AI All the Way Down

from Working Code · host Adam Tuttle, Ben Nadel, Carol Hamilton, Tim Cunningham

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.LinksVibe Coding by Gene Kim & Steve Yegge - The audiobook on AI-assisted development1Password: From Magic to Malware - How OpenClaw's agent skills became a supply chain attack surfaceTLDR Newsletter - Source of the "write-only code" conceptFollow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky. New episodes drop weekly on Thursday.And, if you're feeling the love, support us on Patreon.With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media.Full show notes and transcript here.

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