The use of as many AI tokens as possible, as fast as possible. Enabled by agentic coding tools that spawn subagents running unsupervised. Writing an essay uses around 10,000 tokens. Tokenmaxxers blow through billions a week, burning the planet along the way. Fat token budgets have become a job perk, and some rack up monthly...
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The first white-collar job that AI can actually replace is the one that built the AI. Now coding is conversational. One dev is pleading with his chatbot: “Pushing code that fails pytest is unacceptable and embarrassing.” (Clive Thompson, New York Times)
34 projects, 24 contributors, 65 minutes: Hacks/Hackers held a vibe coding show & tell, and journalists shipped fact-checkers, salary surveys, power grid monitors, and a Discord clone.
A young reader got so frustrated with the FT’s news product that she built her own using Claude Code. She’s paying for a subscription, she wants personalized news, and she couldn’t figure out how to get it. (Jodie Hopperton, INMA)
The vibe is Palantir cosplay: World Monitor by Elie Habib is a real-time “situational awareness” dashboard with threat feeds, geopolitical maps, and a three-stage AI classification pipeline. He calls it a “weekend hack.”
You can just build things
My website was put together with a text editor and a "better done than perfect" attitude. I added new things here and there. Fiddled around. Over time, it got messy. And I never built a dark mode, because I feared the time it would take to rebuild everything. But you're looking at a much improved...
Paul Ford (who wrote a legendary 38,000-word piece on “What Is Code”) on his new obsession with vibe coding: He’s building apps on the subway that he’d once have billed clients $350,000 for. “It stings to be made obsolete, but it’s fun to code on the train, too.” (New York Times)
Vibe coding starter guide for newsrooms (Joe Amditis, Center for Cooperative Media)
Make this your weekend read: Designer Frank Chimero talks about AI and specifically vibe coding. “Time saved is not strength gained,” he says, and gets into how Brian Eno works with machines for his music. And then there is a nice riff on the Ghibli movie “Spirited Away”. Recommended!
It’s crazy what you can build with AI in 1.5 days
Do you want to have a chat with the host of your favorite podcast? Generate a trailer based on emotionally engaging scenes from a movie? Give AI your video material and get a first cut in Premiere, complete with voice-over? How about checking claims made in a video stream in real time? Crazy. That's my...
Vibecoding at Frankfurt AI Forum
With the help of Claude, I vibecoded an interactive summary function into existence. At Frankfurt AI Forum, the newest event of the WAN-IFRA, the World Association of News Publishers, Financial Times' Liz Lohn talked about their successful AI summaries and how they give users the impression of realtime generation. I jumped at the opportunity to...
