Dan Hiester

I got into quitting ChatGPT for Claude before it went mainstream.

It really fascinates me that it feels like Q1 modding has held up longer than it has for just about anything ever since.

Not sure how much of that is the level editor. Not sure how much of that is QuakeC not needing a compiler. Not sure how much of it is Q3 focusing on DM.

I briefly caught a glimpse of a post that started “I hate the term vibe coding,” and my brain went straight to imagining John Leguizamo in character as Tybalt, saying:

“Vibe coding? Vibe coding. I hate the word. As I hate hell… all AI… and thee.”

The ability to create an app, in and of itself, won’t carry the same meaning it used to. What will slowly start to matter: The ability to make complexity feel simple. #SoftwareDevelopment #AI #ProductExperience

Also, after this clip YouTube queued up their song, “Tyler,” and DAMN those chords. How did I miss this?!?!

YouTube video by bigconcertfan.com Toadies - Possum Kingdom (Live from Pointfest 2025 in St Louis MO on 5-17-2025)

I'm continually intrigued by how weird aging gets. Case in point: Seeing The Todies perform a show last year and thinking, "Gosh, who is that sweet looking silver-haired fella asking "DOOOO YOU WANNA DIIIEEE?!"

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Ngl one of my favorite dumb jokes is to say “I think we’re gonna need a bigger ________.”

If you’re a two or three trick pony, and one of those tricks is gatekeeping? AI is gonna eat you alive.

Like, I can kind of sort of get a vision where life works like a free to play video game as long as it isn’t too P2W. Not everyone needs to be a whale. I don’t.

But I need to not freeze to death in the winter. So I need electricity. And it needs to be paid for.

So. Who has a real plan for this?

Question for AI abundance type folks: In that vision of the future, where AI and robotics produce almost everything and no jobs exist for humans anymore, how does electricity get paid for?

How does it become available to humans who can’t pay for it?

Yes! I’ve noticed this, too. Nice to hear I’m not the only one seeing it!

But you wanna know what feels truly ironic about all of this?

The whitepaper that led to the birth of these ADHD simulators was called “Attention Is All You Need.”

Is it now? Is it?!

In some ways, I feel like LLMs are a thought-provoking simulation of an ADHD brain.

They go on tangents. They make random connections between disparate-seeming topics.

When I build something involving a sequence of steps, they tend to have a hard time “seeing” the steps—they’re kind of time blind.

So wait.

Disney bought Fox, so Disney owns Family Guy

Disney signed a deal with OpenAI letting users user Disney characters in Sora videos

But I can’t generate a video of Stewie asking Brian “So how’s that vibe coding going?” because guardrails.

Clearly the AI bubble is about to burst. 🙃

As someone who was an opinion columnist in college and high school, I am so often profoundly disappointed by men who discuss “politics” as if they’re an “intellectual debate” and not lives on the line.

But murder apologists are just a whole other level of wretched.

Lol I’m not sure how, but after a few days of fast and furious vibe coding, Ghostty (terminal emulator that’s engineered to be snappy and lightweight) was taking up over 1gb of RAM.

Sometimes life has ways of telling you to take a break, I guess.

In about 24 hours of vibe coding, my new project went from 3,800 lines of code to 18,000.

The question / experiment now is have I done enough due diligence to get architecture contracts written carefully enough for this to hold together as I get closer to the use cases I’m excited about.

Alright, y’all. I connected Claude to a sandboxed Teamspace in my personal Notion.

My emotional support bot can read my todo list, and write notes on tasks.

2026 is gonna get weird.

I asked Codex CLI, running a max-tier model, to do some web searches on where popular coding agents store their agent rules. I don’t want to approve it crawling the entire web so I’m giving it one-off approvals… but **it just keeps going**.

Look, decision making is hard, okay? 🙃

I randomly decided to ask ChatGPT to generate an image of what it thinks I look like based on what it knows about me—partially as a test of myself, and seeing how much I’ve shared with it.

Here’s the thing: It accurately depicted the hair I *wish* I had. 😂

Still having weird fun, though. It’s like being an editor helping a junior writer find the better version of a chapter.

Never thought I’d say I enjoy refactoring.

I swear I’m fun at parties.

Loosely related: Anyway. I’m refactoring my game I vibe coded with Claude Code.

It’s definitely gotten me further than I would have gotten on my own! But even as a Rust newbie, I’m still looking at many code decisions and going “this algo is not the best SWE in the room, much less on Earth.”

When I see someone say AI consistently”AI writes better code than I do, let’s be real, so I don’t even need to review it,” I feel like they just owned themselves.

“Damnit. I was going to not write Rust. Leave it to typography to be the thing that finally pushes me over the edge into writing some Rust.” 😂

And when I saw examples of how it isn’t quite as simple as everyone wants, I immediately saw a composition over inheritance approach to typography in Rust, and thought to myself: “Whelp. Okay. I want to write this language now, if I want to get the typography right in a way only I know how.”

I was content to not learn Rust until I got to the point of implementing UI and wanting to get serious about figuring out typography.

People say when you’re experimenting with something you shouldn’t think about architecture. And it’s true you shouldn’t overdo it.

But these AI coding tools have moved the bar for how much architecture is too much—because the cost of orchestrating agents in sloppy architecture gets expensive fast.

What’s funny is, I don’t know Rust, but I know a lot about how software works internally.

I know what makes code maintainable or not.

I know how to ask thoughtful questions about the benefits of implementing something one way or the other.

So far, it feels like it’s better to start not with prompts about what I want to make, but about documentation for the architecture of what I want to make.

I’ve actually started the same project three times, each time with a more evolved strategy for prompting it to write architecture docs.

When I use things like Claude Code or Cursor to make web apps, I’m not *truly* vibe coding. I know the platform to well.

So to challenge myself, I decided to try vibe coding a video game in Rust.

So far, it feels like it’s not going lightning fast like I would expect, but I’m noticing something…