GoKawiilIm going back to writing code by hand
09 May, 2026
This dev-log is getting a lot of attention on HN (scary!): HN Thread.
To those who are coming here from HN: This started as an investigation or rather a question: "How far I can get with building a piece of software by keeping myself completely out of the loop". The tl;dr of this dev log is that I still need to be in the loop to make anything meaningful. Take aways:
like "em-dash" is to ai writing, "god-object" is to ai coding
vibe-coding makes everything feel cheap and you may end up losing focus and building bloat
let a human (you) write the architecture and don't just keep asking it for features
And some AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md directives that I felt help me stay out of the loop a little more
Humans intervention is still needed as of 10/05/2026. You can totally go back now!
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