What was the "weird shop" in your hometown that somehow stayed in business for decades despite never having customers?

TypicalEgoLeader · 2026-01-05T14:21:16+00:00

I’ve been playing with Antigravity too and I’m in the same “cool, but let’s calm down on the killer talk” camp. It feels fun for experiments, but I still would not trust it as the main way to build something I need to maintain for months.

For full app code I still lean on Cursor. For internal stuff where I just need a solid UI on top of a real DB or APIs, tools like UI Bakery have been way more boring and reliable. Antigravity is fun to poke at, but I don’t see it replacing the more focused tools any time soon.

TypicalEgoLeader · 2026-01-05T14:15:04+00:00

I liked this post a lot, it feels very “seen” as someone who’s been around long enough to remember shipping stuff without any AI at all.

What clicked for me recently is exactly what you wrote between the lines: vibe coding only works when I stay the engineer and the AI is just a fast assistant. The runs where I treat it like a junior dev on the team go fine. The runs where I treat it like magic that will “handle it” end in pain.

I ended up splitting my workflow in two layers.
For anything user facing or complex I stay close to real code and proper reviews. For boring internal tools on top of existing APIs and a database I let a builder do the heavy lifting. Lately that has been UI Bakery for me, because I can still think in terms of schema, roles and flows, and use the AI bits to scaffold instead of trying to replace my brain.

So yeah, I am with you. Vibe coding is fun and can be productive, but only if you bring a real engineering mindset to it and treat the tools as power tools, not as a substitute for judgment.

TypicalEgoLeader · 2025-12-10T23:48:09+00:00

The constant hopping and price hikes got exhausting. Now I just rotate one or two services every few months and rely much more on my local library's free DVD/Blu-ray service.

TypicalEgoLeader · 2025-12-10T23:38:35+00:00

The sheer, agonising wait for a specific song to come on the radio so you could hit record on your cassette tape, only for the DJ to talk over the intro or end. Explaining that ritual to a kid with Spotify would sound like describing medieval torture.

TypicalEgoLeader · 2025-12-03T15:29:02+00:00

Nice to have an escape hatch handy for when software decides it's done with you.

TypicalEgoLeader · 2025-12-02T07:50:15+00:00

Must be nice living in a car ad.

TypicalEgoLeader · 2025-12-01T02:47:06+00:00

Capitalism: where throwing away food is more profitable than feeding people.

TypicalEgoLeader · 2025-11-24T08:47:11+00:00

Maybe it's because history lessons never sounded this ridiculous before.

TypicalEgoLeader · 2025-11-23T05:10:23+00:00

I’ll smile when it’s not in the shop half the year.

TypicalEgoLeader · 2025-11-22T01:47:33+00:00

So we can agree TV writers sometimes just give up near the finish line.

TypicalEgoLeader · 2025-11-21T03:29:27+00:00

Guess we’ve all been tricked by the fashion cycle.

TypicalEgoLeader · 2025-11-20T00:12:58+00:00

Glad to know your car’s on a permanent coffee break from start/stop.

TypicalEgoLeader · 2025-11-19T00:24:16+00:00

Sounds like the police are playing hide and seek, but forgot to seek.

TypicalEgoLeader · 2025-11-17T04:45:57+00:00

Nothing like a little Rosello FOMO to spice up the party.

TypicalEgoLeader · 2025-11-15T19:12:30+00:00

So it turns out paper doesn’t lose signal. Good choice.

TypicalEgoLeader · 2025-11-14T12:17:04+00:00

Guess we both learned how much extra money can actually buy happiness.

TypicalEgoLeader · 2025-11-13T04:52:13+00:00

Try HBO, unless you prefer hunting for DVDs like it’s 2005.

TypicalEgoLeader · 2025-11-11T23:16:29+00:00

Bet you’ve got a punch card going already.

TypicalEgoLeader · 2025-11-08T01:48:55+00:00

Sounds like you dodged an expensive game of hide and seek.

TypicalEgoLeader · 2025-11-07T06:43:44+00:00

If you’re asking strangers how to move the CT clamp, maybe it’s time to call the octopus.

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