too much vibe coding

Almost didn’t post anything today. Five days in and failure almost hit. Got to find a better rhythm to this, start earlier in the day, get something written, then there’s the opportunity to add to it later. But i blame Claude for my lack of attention to llamaword today, the addiction to vibe code is high, and the buzz of coming up with another idea that you can spin up in less than 30 minutes is just another quick prompt away.

Just saw there’s some security review feature that’s come out for Claude code today and a lot of companies are again losing billions of their market value because of a single post from Anthropic. What do you think they’re going to post next week? Who will be the next victim of being vibed out of a job!?

I can’t stop though. Being able to code and having a working background in coding, means i’ve always had ideas for things i’d want to build if only i had the time. You never have the time. Until now. Now i have the time to build more than just a few ideas, i can build them all, then i can look to build things for fun, and then and then and then, where does it stop?

Claude oneshotted an app i showed a few people at work today for something we’ve been trying to crack for a long time now. We were still using a spreadsheet for what needed to be done (i know i know, a spreadsheet, in 2026) and i just sat there this afternoon thinking why don’t i just get claude to build something, so i did, and an hour later i’ve got a page to view in my github. Sent it over to one of the analysts… nothing, radio silence, they even logged off early which is unlike them.

I keep mentioning to people i work with that ai is coming for us all, it might not be right now, it might not be this year (if we’re lucky) but it will be sooner than you think, and i still just get eye rolls or laughs about it. Perhaps i should feel lucky that the industry i’m in still feels safe and protected from all this ‘whizzy tech’ that’s being built, as it gives me a chance to front run learning how to prompt engineer better than anyone else, so hopefully i still have some relevance when the guys at the top suddenly realise they can chop 50% of staff for the cost of about 20 agents running on a few mac minis lol.

Really got to stop going to bed gone 3am, but i’ve honestly not felt this motivated in a long time, even so, there is a fatigue building because no matter how much you squeeze out of claude, there’s always something more you could do, its never ending.

Saw a great post on x today that sums it up better than i can, my brain is fried and i need some sleep

Working deeply with AI creates a mental crash I’m learning to navigate.Pre-AI, a solid 6-hour sesh meant 1-2 meaningful cycles of work. A cold start + a messy middle + the dopamine hit of finishing something. Done. Now I’m running 50-100 of those cycles a day. Each one has the same emotional weight: ramp up, grind through the hard part, feel the rush when it works. Repeat. That’s 100x the tax on your nervous system. Huberman talks about the pain of learning - how the brain actually experiences cognitive load as discomfort. Working with AI stacks that discomfort 100 times by dinner. The end-of-day crash is real. I’m still figuring out what “deep rest” means when you’ve compressed a month of mental cycles into a single afternoon. - designertom