I started vibe coding on June 12th, 2025. It’s now June 12th, 2026. Here’s a recap of how this year went for me:
• Started vibe coding on June 12th, 2025
• Won first place at the @anything Weekend Challenge with a digital cork board in August
• Won first place at the @Lovable Ditto hackathon with Not Drive, a Google Docs/Sheets/Drive clone in September, beating 499 other participants.
• Won first place at the @replayio Vibe Coding Competition in October
• Won second place at a @YouWareAI hackathon with @contra in December with a MySpace clone
• Was awarded a @1517fund Medici Grant in December
• Ran Claude Code through my Furby
• Bought a 1998 iMac G3 off of Facebook Marketplace, ran a language model locally on it
• Built a bunch of native apps for the iMac G3
• Ran a language model locally on a stock Game Boy Color
• Modded my Nintendo Switch to run a bunch of stuff, including Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, Doom, Gemma 4, and a Nintendo Switch emulator
• Did a bunch of other stuff with Codex, including running it through a Game Boy emulator, running it through a Paint app, running it through a 2009 Palm Pixi, running it through my Apple Watch, and running it through custom firmware on an Xteink x4.
• Gave my OpenClaw a rotary phone
• Made my OpenClaw into a Tamagotchi
• Vibe coded through Joy-Cons
• Put Doom on my Apple Watch
• Attended a ton of fun events, including the 5/5 party with @OpenAIDevs
• Hosted a ton of fun events, including Cafe Cursor San Diego with @cursor_ai, a San Diego meetup with @MiniMax_AI, and a Galentine’s vibe coding event with @v0
• Did some fun contract work with cool companies
• Started posting on Twitter
• Launched a renewable energy development startup, Sunland America
• Quit the other family business and am exploring new opportunities!
What I’m most excited for coming up:
• Some fun secret things in the pipeline
• Building more fun projects
• Meeting more great people
• Finally committing to making YouTube videos
• And much more! Reach out if you’d like to work together
I’m having so much fun and am so incredibly grateful!!!! Thank you to everyone who has been on this journey with me!
Timelapse #156 (36 hrs)
- Worked with @__tinygrad__ on getting GLM 5.2 running on 8xMI300X (sglang won here)
- Launched KernelBench-Mega and updated Kernelbench-Hard with h100 and b200 sweeps
- Took care of boring business stuff
- Did some training sweeps for specialized technical vocab audio model
- Some bugs with putting kernelbench-mega and hard on cloud instances so had to do some reruns. Learned a lot though
- Setting up my own local rl infra and profiling concurrency 128 rollouts with vllm. Became clear to me that I need to serve in nvfp4, use MoE only for throughput, reap so training doesn’t OOM, dig into the vllm kernel graph itself to not underutilize my hardware from poor flashinfer/cutlass selections for my rtx pro 6000 sm120 architecture
- Might do online distillation from glm 5.2 but for now taking it one step at a time
- Slept for a bit then woke up and showered
- Fixed an issue with SGLang tensor parallel deadlock on GLM 5.2 architecture with MTP enabled
- GLM 5.2 inference is 2-3x faster than coding plans and running on amd boxes
- Spent time with family
- Hung out with some friends
- Recorded some yoctogpt lectures with the revamped notebook (high taste btw)
- Setting up dflash training for GLM 5.2
I’m 32.
Not married.
Not millionaire.
No big house.
No big title.
But I’m free.
I make money my way.
I travel the world.
And I live on my terms.
Never let someone else define what your dream life should be.
With AI what would have normally been 2 hours of study, 2 hours of white board, and about 6 hours of programming has been compressed into 7 2 hour sessions that have gone in the wrong direction.
Truly alien technology
"If you really want to make money, found an agentic AI company.
I mean, build an agent to do something. This is the agentic period in AI. Everyone's going to build agents. The agents are all going to compete."
~ Eric Schmidt, Ex Google CEO.
The "AI will replace developers" DELUSION is NOW blowing up in everyone's faces. 🚨
Many fully "vibe-coded" apps are hitting a massive wall of tech debt. We're talking catastrophic scaling failures, infinite recursive loops, crippling memory leaks, and glaring security holes.
Now, desperate startups are quietly opening Dev Roles, offering insane salaries to real software engineers who know how to:
🕵️♂️ Reverse-engineer rogue agentic swarms
🔦 Untangle the unreadable "black box" logic of AI prompts
🛡️ Audit AI models and patch critical vulnerabilities
🧪 Actually write the tests the AI completely skipped
If you know how to step in and clean up an AI's spaghetti code disaster class, you aren't just a dev right now. You're a hero. 🦸♂️💰
PHP is dead.
C++ is dead.
Java is dead.
DSA is dead.
Web development is dead.
Software engineering is dead.
You read posts like these every day, but the truth is that nothing is dead. You just need to get better at what you do. Keep learning, building, and growing.