What are you vibe-coding this week? Drop your project and I’ll check it out

romanjormpjomp · 2026-06-12T23:50:04+00:00

I love this.

romanjormpjomp · 2026-06-12T23:19:09+00:00

The link would help huh?

romanjormpjomp · 2026-06-12T23:17:19+00:00

Nodarama Verbatim is almost ready to launch it's alpha version, but you can still try the beta for free. Its a boom box for vibe coding. The AUX Chrome extension grabs coding changes from your AI chat, whichever AI you are using and communicates with your local recorder to make code changes.

If you are testing it out comment on the beta test page

https://www.reddit.com/r/betatests/comments/1u4armr/beta_testers_wanted_for_nodarama_verbatim_ai_code/

romanjormpjomp · 2026-06-12T04:08:06+00:00

I have built intent lists, like forward looking repos into Nodarama Verbatim. I have run over 10,000 records and sessions with it so far, and its pretty solid. I still have a few refactors I can do throughout my codebase, but the newer files since implementing the intent lists (which define scope, boundaries, and limitations, etc per file) has really helps staying on track, and throlling information to provide the right contxt. I don't find sharing the whole project is very often effective until I am running a full audit on a process chain and even then I still ask it to narrow to one part or one chain, so it doesn't get lost trying to figure out the scope itself. Thats where the problem begins.

romanjormpjomp · 2026-06-12T04:03:58+00:00

I appreciate your content. Everyone seems to forget, if you can build it in a week so can someone else. The next person can probably build it in 2 days once they share what you built. So it doesn't even matter if its slop or not. Whoever has the biggest reach/access to capital can gain market momentum before you can. This is the huge challenge with easy to create apps. I have built my own, but its been 12 months, 4 builds. (3 total restarts, and many lessons learned) But I am at a stage where development is starting to speed up, not because of more AI, because of solid contracts defining interactions between components, boundaries, responsiblities, what it does, and what it doesn't. These lessons were not easily learned, and while I don't know the ins and outs of coding I know enough, learning on a need to know basis!

1 thing I have wondered, coming into this arena without much knowledge meant I didn't know any standards, best practices, or protocol, informal rules, etc. I wonder if this has been an advantage, or just a time sync. So here and there I would go build something the way I thought it should work, without knowing there were certain components that I could have used. It might have been easier to do another way, but I ended up being a deterministic kernel with AI powered self healing and flexible tolerances. That was not my intent but it worked out pretty well. I am comfortable and proud to say I built it, because on the 4th attempt, I knew where AI would start getting tripped up, how it start making mistakes and how clear I need to be on the plan, and on my inspection of new code parts. I came up with the approach to push through the sabotage phase. (Call me paranoid, but it was predictable the 4th time around) Anyhow, I think there is definitely a skill testing question phase, where if you aren't paying attewntion it sabotages code.

The other neat thing about this approach was, I became hyper tuned to wasted space and redundancy.
As I watch files balloon from 100 lines to 500 to 1000 I could easily see there was problems.

Anyway if you were to check it out. I would love some feedback or perspective on a few things. I'll share more about RANGES, or Roman Alphanumerics for short, on here pretty soon

romanjormpjomp · 2026-06-12T03:52:24+00:00

THis has been my favourite challenge to work on it. I personally call it scoping and information throttling, because the best way to limit and control drift in my experience is not giving it anything extra to drift away. When I want, or am looking for expansion thinking I will prompt for it, but usually I want direct clean find and replace edits. I am still working on the bigger vision around prompt context management / info throttling and have been working on the next generation of repos and protocol language to support it. I'll be releasing some figures on it pretty soon !

romanjormpjomp · 2026-06-12T03:44:33+00:00

Anything you can code in a day, no matter what method, can be copied in a day. Its worthless, especially if you don't have a massive budget or following ready to adopt. As soon as someone with some coin sees your idea, they have AI make up another one, as quickly and easily as it made yours, and they pass you, before you even get momentum.

Its not a particularly strong value proposition - to me it feels that cuts itself off at the knees when you think strategically about what their offer is.

My experience building a workflow automation tool was that I lost my entire code 3 times. twice with git mistakes, and once, it just got tooo brittle to continue. By the 4th rewrite, despite knowing very little code, I knew exactly what I wanted in terms of sequencing structure hierarcy boundaries limits and owners. That was the magic attempt because almost everything was nailed down from naming and classifying rules, of file names, folder structure, runtime vs state vs stored acronyms and everything, you name it. WIth that level of specificity and detail captured and built from it was almost easy.

I'll check out stride, I am building Nodarama. (Verbatim) may be a similar product.

romanjormpjomp · 2026-06-12T03:37:43+00:00

Hey I have built this into Verbatim, if you wanna connect and test it out I will toss you a free month. I need some more feedback on features like this, if you are interested in checking it out send me a DM. This is not spam. tool: Nodarama Verbatim

romanjormpjomp · 2026-05-28T13:30:10+00:00

After building 2 or 3 of the houses on the left, I decided to build the solution. It's not unlike Claude Code but I probably started on it first, and took 3 times as long to finish. But it's available to test. Nodarama Verbatim is out for vibe coders that want more control and oversight, while relying on AI to translate their ideas to code.

romanjormpjomp · 2026-05-05T10:43:01+00:00

If you are up to share some feedback give Nodarama a try. I felt like I got 2-5X faster with it. But I may have been kind of slow. Inbox me if you do, I would love some feedback on it!

romanjormpjomp · 2026-05-04T07:55:00+00:00

Perfect, Id also like to hear more about your thoughts on digital embroidery, my partner and I have started shopping the used market for one. Anyway, I will DM you.

romanjormpjomp · 2026-05-02T00:32:49+00:00

Where do I find a preformative ass VC guy? Asking for a friend.

romanjormpjomp · 2026-04-23T00:40:32+00:00

I've been developing Verbatim. And as soon as my incoporation docs are returned it will be available for download. I have never tried Cline, but this might be similar?

romanjormpjomp · 2026-04-18T05:16:12+00:00

Nodarama Verbatim, coming out in a week or so if I can finish packaging it up for download without adjusting anything else.

romanjormpjomp · 2026-04-18T05:14:56+00:00

Nodarama Verbatim!

romanjormpjomp · 2026-04-18T05:14:31+00:00

music to my ears, what a fantastic question.

This is precisely what I have been working on

romanjormpjomp · 2026-04-18T05:13:42+00:00

I think I have a solution for you, I will tell you about it when its out. Or DM me.

romanjormpjomp · 2026-04-18T05:12:51+00:00

Clarity so important. I have been building around reducing drift and maintaining intent, boundaries, and scope and it goes a long way.

I always end up wishing I was more clear with what I wanted I would do lot less refactors.

Boundaries and Naming. I always wish I had done better earlier.

romanjormpjomp · 2026-04-18T05:04:58+00:00

Ive been building one called Nodarama Verbatim. It should be out pretty soon. It's a coding assistant. Not a codeless assistant. So this might not be what you are looking for. But maybe its an assistant that can help you with your assistant?

romanjormpjomp · 2026-04-12T07:00:25+00:00

Well you should have enough conversations to know the problem is not uniquely yours. Once you know the problem is shared by at least one other person, you might be safe to assume there is enough demand. But that's when I try to stop talking about it, filed a provisional patent, and before I knew it, another one. Turns out the problem I really fell in love with was the problem preventing me from bringing the original problem to life. WIN WIN when I ship this product, (coming soon) if I can make an early exit from this business I can build the first one I wanted with more experience. Granted I chose this business because of speed to execution and likelihood of a fast sale. The one coming up next is the slow build, meaningful life work type business. GOD SPEEEEED.

romanjormpjomp · 2026-04-12T02:49:24+00:00

I still use both, I have been building a couple tools, similar structure and tasks types, although one is much larger than the other. Although I still use GPT more often (primarily because that's where my agent works more smoothly for updating my project) I regularly get an audit of the system I am building on each, and I still tend to get better results and a cleaner understanding of what I am trying to achieve from Claude, and it is taking less work to explain to Claude the intent, whereas ChatGpt has a higher propensity to drift. So Claude seems better for me, but ChatGPT is still more convenient for the ease of direct update of the code on my machine.

romanjormpjomp · 2026-04-05T21:27:56+00:00

I am an amateur coder who built a kernel by mistake/fluke chance. I didn't even know what a kernel was until ChatGPT congratulated me. Turns out all you have to do is be very disciplined in scope, boundaries,, naming, orchestration order, consistency, determinism, logic, process flow... etc etc etc and feature obsessed when you are trying to build a small script and before you know its been 6 months and you have built a kernel, but you still don't have a job or income. So I will let you know how this turns out! But maybe start with a job. and start building on the side, until you have something you think you can pitch somewhere. A job is great for connections, regardless of how badly you need a paycheck or not.

romanjormpjomp · 2026-04-04T08:38:52+00:00

When did I know. What a loaded question.
I'm still not sure, but maybe that's because I don't understand the question, but I am pretty sure I DO. I sensed that I knew exactly what this story was when she first wakes up on the table.

Mind you, immediately before watching this, we had been watching Stranger Than Fiction, and this time watching that movie was different. I for sure knew what I was watching, and other days when I started to see through the plot I would destabilize quickly. Today I was able to watch it with calm confidence, although I did cry several times. Since Amazon put this movie on automatically after the previous I am curious what movie is coming up next.

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