Vibe coding is all the rage right now. Apparently Andrej Karpathy only coined this term back in February, which is wild to me because I feel like I've been seeing takes about it for the last five hundred years. Probably if you're reading this I don't need to define it for you, but for friends who are less stuck in the programmer suffering mines: vibe coding is when you write your code entirely with LLMs and it mostly works.

Plenty of people have pushed back on the concept of vibe coding because, fundamentally, it

I got a bitter and nasty email this morning that kind of threw off my whole day. I don't, generally, like it when people are mad at me, especially in a circumstance like this one where I am pretty much entirely confident that I have done nothing wrong. In this case I was furious about the whole deal and had to stop and calm myself down before proceeding.

Not responding might be the best option - and usually is if it's a social media stranger - but this was someone I know and I have never much liked ghosting people.

About a week ago I had a nice long conversation with my brother about wine. This is something that happens a lot in my family: my brother is a wine rep, my uncle spent a while running a small wine importer, I've worked in wine production and sales, and the rest of my family really enjoys drinking wine even if they've kept it out of their professional lives. I am the annoying friend who likes to talk about and think about the wine we're drinking at dinner but I pale in comparison to most of my family.

My brother has