What you really care about is what you spend your time doing, not what you keep saying.

Vibe Coding this site

This whole blog is built with 99% vibecoding with Claude Code. I only used Codex couple of times in the last couple of days when I ran out tokens on Claude. Today I did things like

  • Add a Feed
    • Even a Kannada specific feed, though I’m yet to write a Kannada post.
  • Add unique ids to each paragraph and list using rehype. Each element will get a four letter hash unique to that page, so that I can link to individual paragraph anywhere on a page. Example
  • Add a 404 page entirely one-shotted, of course.
  • The entire styling has been reworked couple of times.. plain to lively to now muted, entirely using “Impeccable Style“‘s Claude plugin.

First Impressions of OpenCode

I should give Minimax 2.1 a try using OpenCode.

I ran out of Claude credits and started using OpenCode with GLM-4.7, which I think is “free”? with Opencode. The thinking mode output is lot more useful to understand what’s going on behind the screen.

GLM 4.7 output

I even figured out how to use Minimax-2.1. All I had to do was to sign up for a key on https://opencode.ai/.

AI Assisted Software Engineering

Writing a good software spec by Addy Osmani is a nice checkpoint in the ever evolving way of writing non-trivial software using AI Coding agents. It is very hard to be at the cutting edge of “vibecoding” because there are multiple frontiers developing at the same time, and not one person can claim to know the best way to do so. Best way forward is to ground ourself in the fundamentals of Software Engineering, and guide the tactics using tools that make sense to us in a given context.

See also Addy Osmani’s new book on AI-assisted Engineering — “Beyond Vibe Coding”

By initial looks at the article and the book website, this approach feels lot more structured than whatever Gas Town is kicking up. There are quite a few articles, and blog posts raving about Gas Town (and plenty of detractors at the usual sites). I am quite happy with whatever off-duty programming I’m getting done with Claude Code, and looking forward to bite off on a big enough project where Gas Town could be interesting.

Observations

Watched the AFC divisional between Bills and Broncos. Josh Allen in his 9th year is probably feeling lot more pressure on him than Peyton did before winning one at Indy in 2006 season (his 8th). Bills might consider a change at HC. Sean Payton’s Broncos played well enough to continue to enjoy their No 1 seed for another week. It grinds my gears (slightly) when people mess up the spellings of the former QB (“e”) and the HC (“a”).

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Take out and eating out feels like a big waste of money 8/10 times these days. Expectations for a work-day lunch/dinner or while traveling have lowered expectations. But, going out for a proper dinner, dropping $200 and leaving the place feeling meh, is more common than ever. The tips recommendations in some of these places start at 22%, yeah no.

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Added this site to hnpwd.

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