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Ars Technica: 10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents. “Since November, I have used Claude Code and Claude Opus 4.5 through a personal Claude Max account to extensively experiment with AI-assisted software development (I have also used OpenAI’s Codex in a similar way, though not as frequently). Fifty projects later, I’ll be frank: I have not had this much fun with […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/21/ars-technica-10-things-i-learned-from-burning-myself-out-with-ai-coding-agents/Garbage Day: Am I too stupid to vibe code?. “Vibe coding, like every new trend coming out of Silicon Valley, turns this process — the entire act of creativity, itself — into a slot machine. One more pull on the AI and maybe it will figure it out for you. You won’t understand how any of it works, of course, or feel particularly proud of what you’ve done, but maybe you’ll have […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/20/garbage-day-am-i-too-stupid-to-vibe-code/ZDNet: I tried vibe coding an app as a beginner – here’s what Cursor and Replit taught me. “Startups such as Cursor, Replit, Lovable Labs, Harness, Windsurf, Augment Code, All Hands AI, and Microsoft, with its Visual Studio with GitHub Co-pilot, all offer programs that can drastically reduce the hand-coding humans need to do. And so I wondered: Could a newbie like me, with limited programming […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/20/zdnet-i-tried-vibe-coding-an-app-as-a-beginner-heres-what-cursor-and-replit-taught-me/ZDNet: I took Harvard’s free online coding classes to better catch AI’s errors – and they’re legit. “If you want a program written, you can use an AI. But AI is wrong a lot – and confidently so. You’d better know how to code so you can confidently check your AI’s work. I’m going to show you one of the best intro to coding courses out there, as well as a course that will up your skills […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/30/zdnet-i-took-harvards-free-online-coding-classes-to-better-catch-ais-errors-and-theyre-legit/Simon Willison: A new way to extract detailed transcripts from Claude Code. “I’ve released claude-code-transcripts, a new Python CLI tool for converting Claude Code transcripts to detailed HTML pages that provide a better interface for understanding what Claude Code has done than even Claude Code itself. The resulting transcripts are also designed to be shared, using any static HTML hosting […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/29/simon-willison-a-new-way-to-extract-detailed-transcripts-from-claude-code/Ars Technica: We asked four AI coding agents to rebuild Minesweeper—the results were explosive. “To see how effective these modern AI coding tools are becoming, we decided to test four major models with a simple task: re-creating the classic Windows game Minesweeper. Since it’s relatively easy for pattern-matching systems like LLMs to play off of existing code to re-create famous games, we […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/20/ars-technica-we-asked-four-ai-coding-agents-to-rebuild-minesweeper-the-results-were-explosive/
Tom’s Hardware: Google’s Agentic AI wipes user’s entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure — cache wipe turns into mass deletion event as agent apologizes: “I am absolutely devastated to hear this. I cannot express how sorry I am”. “A developer using Google Antigravity, the search giant’s AI-powered agentic Integrated Developer Environment (IDE), discovered that it had deleted […]
Lifehacker: Here’s What Happened When I Gave ‘Vibe Coding’ a Try. “According to a lot of AI enthusiasts I see on X, vibe coding means ‘it’s over’ (whatever ‘it’ is), and people are ‘one-shotting’ all kinds of projects (as in, using a single prompt to create something). To investigate further, I tried to create a little project of my own using ChatGPT and Gemini. Here’s how it went.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/27/lifehacker-heres-what-happened-when-i-gave-vibe-coding-a-try/
The Register: Researchers want to kill the vibe, propose better model for AI coding. “A pair of MIT researchers have detailed a proposed new model for software that would help both humans and AI code generators alike create better and more transparent applications. No more vibing!”
Johns Hopkins: Researchers watched students’ brains as they learned to program. “After the students took a programming course, parts of their brain activated as they read code. Inside these areas, groups of neurons represented the meaning of code. Surprisingly, before the students took the class or knew anything about programming, the same groups of neurons also fired when the students read the […]
The Register: AI startup Augment scraps ‘unsustainable’ pricing, users say new model is 10x worse. “Augment has updated its pricing model for Augment Code, an AI coding assistant, to be based on AI usage rather than message interactions. The company said its existing model ‘isn’t sustainable’ but users have calculated that the new one is more than ten times as expensive.”
Gizmodo: Even the Inventor of ‘Vibe Coding’ Says Vibe Coding Can’t Cut It. “It’s been over a year since OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy exited the company. In the time since he’s been gone, he coined and popularized the term ‘vibe coding’ to describe the practice of farming out coding projects to AI tools. But earlier this week, when he released his own open source model called […]
PC Gamer: RPG developer Owlcat launches free game dev learning resource: ‘A rising tide truly lifts all ships’. “The initial collection of software recommendations, tutorials, online courses, and other resources was put together by Owlcat along with Midwest Games, Fireshine Games, War Thunder developer Gaijin Entertainment, and 11 Bit Studios, maker of Frostpunk and The Alters.”
PC World: It’s official: Doom can run for 2.5 years straight without crashing. “Even the most simple, stable game can’t run forever. In endless mode, I’ve gotten something as lowkey as 20 Minutes Till Dawn—a 2D pixelated game with only four colors—to crash a gaming PC. But what about the ever-venerable Doom? Someone did an incredible test and found that it’ll take the 1993 shooter […]
ZDNet: MS-BASIC 1.1 introduced programming to a generation – now you can download it for free. “For its day, MS-BASIC 1.1 was quite sophisticated. It included improved garbage collection. (When you only had 4K of RAM, you needed every byte your program could get its hands on.) It also supported FOR loop variables, which were a big improvement over BASIC’s infamous GOTO command.”
The Register: Older developers are down with the vibe coding vibe. “According to a July survey of 791 US developers from cloud services platform Fastly, around a third of senior developers with more than a decade of experience are using AI code-generation tools such as Copilot, Claude, and Gemini to produce over half of their finished software, compared to 13 percent for those devs who’ve only […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/31/the-register-older-developers-are-down-with-the-vibe-coding-vibe/
ZDNet: Claude can teach you how to code now, and more – how to try it. “On Thursday, Anthropic launched new learning modes for both Claude.ai, its chatbot, and Claude Code, its coding assistant, to help users learn as they use AI to complete tasks. The modes aim to go beyond simply providing answers to users and help them understand how to arrive at the answer themselves through ‘guided […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/16/zdnet-claude-can-teach-you-how-to-code-now-and-more-how-to-try-it/
The Register: AI model ‘personalities’ shape the quality of generated code. “Code quality biz Sonar argues that it’s necessary for software developers who use large language models (LLMs) for assistance to understand how these
‘personalities’ shape AI-generated code and affect code security, reliability, and maintainability.”
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