Architecture

Jun 10, 2026 5 min readI Vibe Coded and Lived to Tell

The Makefile was Lying to Me

Gemini saw a wall of green checkmarks and declared 27 tools verified. The Makefile printed FAIL and exited 0. How we made it loud, annoying and honest.

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May 26, 2026 6 min readI Vibe Coded and Lived to Tell

The Queue Is Full: What I'm Building Next with Local-First AI

After extracting a shared library, starting a new tool went from a day of boilerplate to two imports. The queue got longer, not shorter. Here's what's next.

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May 23, 2026 6 min readI Vibe Coded and Lived to Tell

Gemini Forgot Its Plan. I Kept the Makefile.

I ran out of Claude tokens and handed my six-repo codebase to Gemini CLI. It made some mistakes and had one genuinely good idea.

Apr 10, 2026 8 min readI Vibe Coded and Lived to Tell

I Extracted a Shared Library and Got 400 Tests I Didn't Ask For

Six Python projects, four duplicated files, one shared library. The code behind the extraction, what moved, and the surprise that made it worth it.

Mar 27, 2026 6 min readI Vibe Coded and Lived to Tell

Copy and Paste Long Enough and the Architecture Appears

You can't design your way to a good abstraction. You have to earn it through repetition. Vibe coding made that repetition happen faster, not slower.

May 7, 2025 2 min read

AWS Card Clash - Gen AI Battles

Today I joined a demo of the AWS Card Clash architecture design game available on AWS SkillBuilder