Outgrowing the Vibe Code

john crider

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You started by tossing prompts at an AI and hoping the app held together. It worked... until it didn't. Outgrowing the Vibe Code is the show about what comes next. Each episode, two builders dig into the messy, fascinating journey from haphazard "vibe coding" to real, enterprise-grade systems that write code for you. We get hands-on with the stuff that makes it work — harnesses, spec-driven development (SDD), and agent loops — without the jargon or the hype. Whether you're still winging it or wiring up your first self-writing pipeline, pull up a chair. It's fun, it's casual, and it's the con

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Recent episodes

  • Ch 22, Pt 1: When Your Harness Stops Being YoursOct 29, 2026 · 13 min
  • Ch 21, Pt 2: Knowing When to Stop: When NOT to Use an AgentOct 28, 2026 · 12 min
  • Ch 21, Pt 1: The Economics: What a Session Really CostsOct 27, 2026 · 12 min
  • Ch 20, Pt 3: Onboarding, Conflicts, and Team MistakesOct 22, 2026 · 11 min
  • Ch 20, Pt 2: Coordination and Review at Agent ScaleOct 21, 2026 · 11 min
  • Ch 20, Pt 1: Shared Harness, and the Rotating CaptainOct 20, 2026 · 14 min
  • Ch 19, Pt 3: Prevention Beats Cleanup — and the Mistakes That Let Entropy WinOct 15, 2026 · 11 min
  • Ch 19, Pt 2: The Garbage Collection Agent and the Three Domains of EntropyOct 14, 2026 · 11 min
  • Ch 19, Pt 1: What Code Entropy Looks Like — and Why Agents Make It WorseOct 13, 2026 · 13 min
  • Ch 18, Pt 3: Failure Patterns, Knowing the Boundary, and Common MistakesOct 8, 2026 · 13 min

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