I Vibe Coded and Lived to Tell

Vibe coding is what happens when you let an AI write code you don’t fully understand, ship it anyway, and then deal with whatever it does in production.

These posts are field notes from building real, recurring tools:

a promo generator
a model evaluator
content discovery
and plenty more automation ideas to support my workflow

No sanitized tutorials. No success-only stories. Just honest accounts of what local AI models do when you ask them to carry actual work, and what you have to fix when they get creative.

New here? Start with the first post:
I Vibe Coded a Local AI-Powered Promo Generator →

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I Vibe Coded a Local AI-Powered Promo Generator

Every Monday, I publish a blog post. Then I write five slightly different versions of “hey, I wrote a thing” for LinkedIn, Twitter, Bluesky, and Mastodon. Each platform has different character limits, different audiences, and different best practices. It’s tedious. I wanted to automate it. Not with a frontier model, but with a small local one running on my laptop. Something like phi or llama, through Ollama. I didn’t need a polished production app. I needed a quick prototype to test my theory. My theory was that a small local model can handle a real, recurring task. …and it can do it well enough to be useful. ...