By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/07/2026It only *looked* like they were doing the same thing - they were actually engaged in fundamentally different activities, which is why they were having such different experiences. The same goes for vibe coding. 7/ 1502
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/07/2026Plenty of people I knew got real value out of vibe coding personal tools that made things better for them in a way that I instantly recognized from a life spent around people who'd been able to adapt and customize the systems they used to make their lives better: pluralistic.net/2024/01/25/t... 8/pluralistic.netPluralistic: Tabs give me superpowers (25 Jan 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 3421
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/07/2026Vibe coding can be seen as part of a lineage that includes shell scripting, Applescript, Hypercard and Visual Basic. 9/ 5620
singemonkey.bsky.social @singemonkey.bsky.social · 02/07/2026I've mainly done this for a while for the kinds of organisations that have people who don't even know where to start with automating a computerised task. One off hacky solutions can often save an organisation hundreds of hours a year of copy-paste work. I called myself a "gutter-coder". 100
Jay/Cogi @jaycogi.bsky.social · 02/07/2026As not-a-coder who occasionally wants my devices to do new things, I kind of love the idea of vibe coding for this sort of thing in theory, but when I look into it more, all the places that profess to teach vibe coding/offer solutions for vibe coding try to get me to make production-ready code 100
