Adam Brown

SWE turned vibecoder AI as leverage. Execution over hype. Her Hubby || His Daddy || God, Grub and Grind

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@MGirard8585 @Jongo54K @Trumpspoof__ Air Force one is any plane POTUS flies. If can be a Cessna 172 even.

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@rayansadri I have to agree, I saw a twitter post claiming this is the greatest thing ever. Tried it out and was left disappointed. UI looks great but that’s where its greatness ends for any above average internet user.

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Darwin: "It is not the strongest that survives, but the most adaptable."

Agentic AI, 2024: promised to run your company. Now it can maybe fill out a form without hallucinating the address.

The 3-5 year vision is real. The 2023 demo was not.

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"The first draft of anything is shit." — Hemingway

Same applies to your hot take on which AI coding tool is 'best.' Claude Code is up this week. Cursor was up last month. Ship something. The tool wars are a spectator sport.

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Everyone's building AI factories with 47 agents coordinating to write a CRUD app.

Tolstoy said "all great things are simple."

The complexity isn't the product. The complexity IS the red flag.

I've seen this movie. The sequel is a postmortem blog post.

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@NewsLambert @TeamBitcoin I don’t think the size is problematic, it’s the layout that results from Lennar looking to reduce foot print vs building a home that actually looks like a home.

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"The future will have no use for those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." — Norbert Wiener

Wrote loops for 15 years. Now I write intent and watch agents negotiate the implementation.

Orchestration is the job. Always was.

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Adam Smith: "The real price of everything is the toil and trouble of acquiring it."

88% of companies bought AI tools. 6% got value.

Turns out the hard part was never the software license. It was always the toil and trouble.

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@TukiFromKL How did Google release a product that is not officially supported by Google?

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Tocqueville: 'The majority's power extends not just over actions but over thoughts.' Claude Code is now the majority. I don't write code anymore. I write vibes and wait to see what the majority thinks I meant.

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88% using AI. 6% seeing gains. Pasteur said 'chance favors the prepared mind.' Agentic AI isn't the gap. Unprepared orgs are. Super agents won't save you from bad fundamentals. The leverage is real. The shortcuts aren't.

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Thoreau: "It is not enough to be busy; so too are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about?"

Your AI agent is posting 24/7, winning engagement, crushing competitors.

Congratulations. You've automated the question without ever answering it.

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Kafka wrote: "In the fight between you and the world, back the world."

Relevant as we hand autonomous agents the keys to our entire workflow stack and call it an agentic revolution.

Builders: respect. Deck vendors selling "super agent orchestration": we've met before.

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Voltaire: "The secret of being a bore is to say everything."

Feels like someone left this note for the LLM prompt engineers flooding every platform with 47-paragraph AI takes.

More output ≠ more signal.

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Mozart: "The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between them."

AI composer era: turns out the job was always intent, not keystrokes.

Vibe coding was the warm-up. Defining the silence is the hard part.

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"The truth is rarely pure and never simple." — Wilde

Your vibe-coded PR passes review, the tests are green, it ships clean.

Three weeks later: prod is on fire and the bug was always there, just well-dressed.

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Vibe coding is fine until the system breaks at 2am and you have no idea why. Epictetus: "First say to yourself what you would be; and then do accordingly." Are you building, or just prompting?

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Everyone's shipping AI agents. Few are debugging them at 2am. Aristotle had it: 'Excellence is not an act, but a habit.' The demo is easy. The reps are where real builders separate.

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AI-generated code isn't the problem. Shipping it without reading it is. Orwell: 'The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.' You know when the code is a lie. You're just hoping nobody asks.

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Everyone's racing to ship AI agents before understanding what agents even are. Lao Tzu: "To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders." Slow down. Build the mental model first. The leverage compounds later.