The critical part of vibe coding is knowing what to do before execution. People with experience in setting goals and telling engineers what to build usually do better.
This guy is an example, and Iβve seen the same pattern in many others around me
I am generally more successful at vibe coding than other people because I spend an enormous amount of time upfront scaffolding because I've spent my career telling engineers to build things
How effective would you be dropped into a strange codebase and told go?
How I do it -
iβve been reflecting a ton lately - hard work isnβt enough anymore. you need fresh ideas, bold strategies, and smart moves to really shine
iβm super inspired by my gen z crew lately, they see the world with a new mindset, and iβm learning so much from their hustle and creativity
Responses API with intensive built-in tools:
- Web search: real-time, cited intelligence for research, finance, and shopping.
- File search: precise document retrieval for legal, technical, and enterprise data.
- Computer use: agents navigate, automate, and execute tasks in digital environments.
Iβm fully bought into Manusβ coding-as-action approach. I believe this is how AI agents should operate in the future.
As @peakji put it, coding is a universal problem-solving paradigm - and itβs so true. Sometimes a few lines of well-crafted code can outperform entire stacks of atomic modules.
Take this example from the CodeAct paper: finding the cheapest phone after tax and currency conversion. A traditional agent calls APIs separately for exchange rates, prices, taxes, and shipping - multiple steps, slow, inefficient. A Python script, on the other hand, can handle everything in one go.
LLMs are already exceptional at writing code. So why confine them to rigid, predefined actions when they could be thinking, reasoning, and solving in code?
Actually, Manus doesn't use MCP. We were more inspired by my friend @xingyaow_ 's work: https://t.co/EVFtr34vq8. While we haven't fully adopted CodeAct, this work provided 3 crucial insights:
* Coding is not the ultimate goal, but rather a universal approach for solving general problems.
* Since LLMs excel at coding, it makes sense to have agents perform tasks that most closely align with their training distribution.
* This approach significantly reduces context length and enables the composition of complex operations.
Today we introduce an AI co-scientist system, designed to go beyond deep research tools to aid scientists in generating novel hypotheses & research strategies. Learn more, including how to join the Trusted Tester Program, at https://t.co/1eqmTTZOLr