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Vibe Coding – A Grift, the Next Cash Cow or Both?

For a 16-minute, 46-second deep-dive podcast on this post, created by Google’s NotebookLM AI, click the audio player below. These days, the Internet is awash with articles and videos about the software development ‘game-changing’ methodology called ‘Vibe Coding.’ For someone unfamiliar with software development, it’s forgivable to walk away from these articles and videos thinking…

Pragmatism vs Dogmatism and AI-Assisted Programming

Another in my series of blog posts on “The Joy of Centaur Programming”. Today I’ll dive deep into what I call “shared pragmatism”. As with all my blog posts, you can listen to a discussion of it between Google’s two NotebookLM deep-dive AIs by clicking on the audio player below. Often, development teams, whether they…

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Centaur Programmers

This spring, I read the book Atomic Habits by James Clear. Published in 2018 and now in its 7th printing, it’s a remarkable and “highly effective” way to learn how to eliminate negative habits and develop positive ones that stick. More than that, throughout the book, Clear reinforces a key pearl of wisdom: we are our habits.…

AI – The End of Puzzle Solving?

For me, writing software has always had one fundamental reward – the endorphin rush that comes from solving a complex puzzle. Yes, being paid to solve puzzles (professional coding) is rewarding, but in all honesty, it is secondary to the rush that comes from the moment when that final piece clicks into place. The puzzle…

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