Posts tagged "Coding"

The Best Code I Ever Wrote Was the Code I Deleted

I have written a lot of code. Hundreds of thousands of lines across dozens of projects over twenty years. Some of it was clever. Some of it was elegant. Some of it solved hard problems in interesting ways. The best code I ever wrote was none of that. The best code I ever wrote was the code I deleted. A function that turned out to be unnecessary. A feature that nobody used. An abstraction that added complexity without adding value. A clever solution to a problem we did not actually have. Each deletion made the codebase better in a way that no addition could match.

Vibe Coding Is Not AI-Assisted Coding

Somewhere in the last year, we collectively decided that typing prompts into an AI and hoping for the best counts as software development. Andrej Karpathy coined the term “vibe coding” in February 2025, and what started as a cheeky observation has become an actual workflow for people shipping production code. This is a problem. Let me be clear about something: I use AI coding tools every day. Claude, Copilot, Cursor. They’re genuinely useful. But there’s a massive difference between AI-assisted coding and vibe coding, and the industry seems determined to blur that line until someone’s startup implodes in a spectacular security breach.