Google brings its vibe coding tool Opal to Gemini on the web, letting users create their own custom apps called Gems; the mini apps can be reused later (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/17/googles-vibe-coding-tool-opal-comes-to-gemini/
Google launches Antigravity, an "agent-first" coding tool that leverages Gemini 3 Pro and third-party models, available in free public preview (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/822833/google-antigravity-ide-coding-agent-…
On sabbatical, but co-teaching a new class at Brown this semester on agentic coding! We're going to use it to figure out how to fit it into standard classes, and relate it to the education and cogsci literature. Best part—doing it with @… and Michael Littman!
Google plans to release Gemini 3 Deep Think to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the coming weeks, once it passes further rounds of safety testing (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/google-launches-gemini-3-…
My actual experience of AI coding over the last few days. Starting point is a large working prototype application written mostly in typescript, and I want a version in Python, so I have Claude working away at it, porting over the BDD tests, the unit tests, comparing with the TS. This morning it’s working on unit tests for 8 services. it saw there was a lot to do, so it spawned four coder specialists and worked for about 50min, creating 188 tests, then continued with four more coders.
Vibe coding is the single biggest transformation since ChatGPT 3.5, it is one of the biggest transformations since the dawn of computing. It will thoroughly transform Open Source. We are not ready. #VibeCoding #OpenSource
This is a pretty good example to demonstrate why people are often shocked at the inference cost of #vibe #coding tools. I've been playing with #eca in
The utopias of yesterday – GfZK Leipzig presents the history of Robotron...
(Robotron was East Germany's largest computer manufacturer and they also made the machine I first got to use on my way to becoming a "computer toucher"... Almost exactly 10 years ago, I wrote about those early experiences and the lessons learned already back then in this long read article here:
Ich möchte wirklich nicht immer die #KI kritisieren aber die negativen Infos hören einfach nicht auf:
»Cursor, Claude Code und viele mehr—Diese gravierenden Sicherheitslücken sollen in allen Vibe-Coding-Tools stecken:
Sind #VibeCoding-Tools wirklich sicher? Ein
Google announces Gemini 3, its "most intelligent" and "factually accurate" model yet, with improvements across coding, reasoning, and less "flattery" (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/822977/gemini-3-google-ai-model-launch<…
#Steady-#Klimacrew
Was tun, wenn falsche Einträge im #Marktstammdatenregister die Auswertung ruinieren?
Das Register ist berüchtigt für Fehleinträge durch Anlagenbetreiber. …
Thinking about making a new live coding language that I don't talk or write about until I've performed with it for a year. (Hopefully this will be the first and last time I break this rule.) #normaliseintrospectivecreativity
I sat for a long while with my complicated feelings about "vibe coding". It is _genuinely_ empowering for many — opening a door to creating with code that otherwise would never exist. Also? It enables a dangerous dependency that could be a path to serfdom for coders. https://www.…
#Steady
Vibe Coding mit KI-Programmierhilfen in Visual Studio Code ausprobiert.
Ich habe zwei KI-Assistenzen für die direkte Integration in VSCode getestet, ob sie meine Erwartungen erfüllen. Welche Lösung wirklich hilft, die Arbeit effizienter zu gestalten, zeigt sich erst beim Praxistest. Der Einsatz lohnt sich, doch nicht jedes Tool spielte so mit, wie ich es mir gewünscht hatte.
Thought of the day: coding assistants make it very easy to refactor.
On the plus side, it means you can easily experiment. On the minus side, you may waste a lot of time going back and forth, searching for the perfect code.
job done. context left: 0 😏
That was spot on 😊
#ai #coding
How I use #AI to code - Nate McMaster
"Only ask AI to do things I already know how to do"
https://natemcmaster.com/blog/2025/11/06/tenets-of-ai-coding/
Mistral launches Devstral 2, a coding model with 123B parameters requiring at least four H100 GPUs, and a 24B parameter Devstral Small for local deployment (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/09/mistral-ai-surfs-vibe-coding-t…
Anyone know anything about solidagent.io?
They appear to be an EU hosted AI agent - in the sense that they have the trained models on their own platforms, rather than using an API so presumably queries etc stay on their servers.
Their statements of #privacy etc look good and the test queries I posted (on quite complex #coding problems) were very impressive, but I don't think it's strictly FOSS otherwise.
Would be happy to hear if others have good/bad experience with them as they seem quite new.
https://www.solidagent.io/privacy
Atom: The Editor That Accidentally Built Its Own Killer by Coding with Lewis
#webdev
Israeli tech founder Maor Shlomo,
whose vibe coding startup Base44 sold for over $80 million when it was acquired by Wix,
said on the podcast “20VC” that “it’s relatively easy to create a vibe coding tool.”
“Every feature that we put out, we know that’s going to take either a few weeks or a few months for competitor to copy,” he complained.
It's trivially easy for competitors to copy your brilliant innovation.
Stockholm-based vibe coding startup Lovable raised $330M led by CapitalG and Menlo Ventures at a $6.6B valuation, up from $1.8B after raising $200M in July (Niko Gallogly/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/busines
Every vibe-coding PM is baller until they are asked to take responsibility for maintaining that code.
#llm #ai #tech
Want to see a LLM become real self-aware, real fast?
Ask it to pretend it’s giving you advice that would have been current based on everything it could have known in 2005, and if it had been built by one of the big technology companies of the time.
Then ask it if everyone followed that advice, would it—the LLM—exist today?
(Then, for yourself, think about what the result of everyone vibe coding their way to 20 years into the future from today looks like.)
Gemini 3 demonstrates strong planning, coding, and judgment skills, and shows how AI models moved past hallucinations to subtle, and often human-like, errors (Ethan Mollick/One Useful Thing)
https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/three-years-from-gpt-3-to-gemini
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Added a category manager and category state section to the Exocortex Log app.
Have now organized and cleaned up the categories in my ten year database and so we can get some views of the time spent in each category.
We see that through September and October I was in a routine of work and slack with a bit of social a couple of times a week, until the end of November when I went away for social at a conference all weekend. I saw a demo there of a person using Shakespeare, and then when I got back started doing some vibe-coding, shown in in Red.
A break from that to go away at the weekend to a long social party then finish it off and publish a few days ago, since when Vibe Coding has dropped off a little.
#lifeLog #app #exocortexLog
wrote something about weirdness in the vibe-translations by AI coding agents of the Rust html5ever HTML parser
https://felix.dognebula.com/art/html-parsers-in-portland.html
product_space: Atlas of Economic Complexity export network
Two networks of economic products, where a pair of products are connected if they are exported at similar rates by the same countries. The data are a projection from a bipartite network of nations and the products they export. Edges weights represent a similarity score (called "proximity"). Data based on UN Comtrade worldwide trade patterns. SITC network based on the Standard International Trade Classification and HS …
Okay, let's admit it, it's rather fun to be able to tell a machine "Let's rock and roll!" and it is able to infer that I mean, "Yeah, that design document is now in great shape, we should start generating code".
Gemini 3 Pro is integrated into the Gemini app, which now has 650M MAUs, and powers Google Search's AI Mode conversational search feature (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/business/google-gemini-3.html
I find something profound in recursive descent parsing, both the idea of it and the coding of it. For me it's one of the more beautiful things in mathematics, let alone computing.
Sources: Stockholm-based vibe coding startup Lovable is in talks to raise funding at a valuation of ~$6B, up from $1.8B in July when it raised a $200M Series A (Iain Martin/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/20
Maybe having "AI" doing any coding for you is a bad idea.
"Windows 11 25H2 is Breaking PCs Right Now (Here’s What’s Actually Broken) "
TBF, maybe it's just that M$ sucks at coding its own OS at this point.
#AI #enshittification
from my link log —
Coding for non-programmers: we need better web GUI automation tools.
https://matduggan.com/why-we-need-better/
saved 2021-10-23 https://<…
This article by @… describes me this weekend, hacking away with Copilot on two Hugo websites (one new, one 10 years old) and being incredibly productive while at it (and I suck at golang templates)
https://
How testing made vibe coding work for me
Creating complex logic for standing tiebreakers in web app
https://www.jovian34.com/j34/blog/26/
Every year I add features to apps.iubase.com before the start of college baseball season in mid-February. This off-season has been particularly bold as…
I'm totally gonna start talking about vice coding.
»Veraltete Chromium-Basis — Beliebte KI-Coding-IDEs gefährden Millionen Entwickler:
Forscher schlagen Alarm: Die KI-Coding-IDEs Cursor und Windsurf enthalten eine uralte Chromium-Version mit mindestens 94 bekannten Sicherheitslücken.«
Mensch sollte doch nicht jeglichen Hype blind glauben und doch tun dies sogenannte Fachmenschen andauernd. Von deren blindem Vertrauen vieler Entwickler toote ich noch nicht.
🤨
Claude Code: Neue Web-Version bringt mehrere Vorteile für Entwickler mit sich
Anthropic bietet Claude Code ab sofort eine neue Plattform. Künftig ist die Coding-KI auch im Web nutzbar.
https://…
Another dispatch from the implementing-regular-expressions front lines. Probably of interest to very few, but who knows. Includes thoughts on coding while old.
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/01/01/Quamina-2026
RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/115848630887537402
I mean hey, if Claude allows you to kill a bunch of Nazi pages, at least something good came from it.
In my understanding using LLMs for coding does violate at least those two points of the hacker…
The #KeepassXC discussion about GenAI coding tool use seems a bit too simplistic at the moment.
There is room for nuance:
1. Yes, LLM based code generators consume insane amounts of electricity and generate collateral environment damage. That's bad, and we should talk much more about energy efficiency and reasonable use of resources.
2. Yes, LLMs generate a lot of bad o…
Nice blog in the discussion about AI & coding,
"AI can replace most of programming, but programming isn’t the job.
Programming is a task. It’s one of many things you do as part of your work. But if you’re a software engineer, your actual job is more than typing code into an editor."
https://<…
What coding looks like in 2025
Apropos of yesterdays #vibe coding thread I do have one other observation. Looking at the #api usage stats you can clearly see how many more api calls and tokens are processed when using it this way. All those tokens can quickly add up to extra costs - my individual queries are basically noise at this poin…
New to warm @… , you can use 'delta' to do things based on the duration of events.
Sources: Replit is in advanced discussions to raise about $400M in a new round of funding that would roughly triple its valuation to $9B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-15/ai-coding-startup-replit-ne…
After a couple of weeks off, I’m back to having fun coding with Claude. I spend most of my time watching, so I’m running two ( totally separate project) coding sessions at the same time in different Codespaces windows. The public one is https://GitHub.com/brazil-bench where I’m setting up a github issues based…
📣📣📣 LLM-powered coding mass-produces technical debt. 📣📣📣
The expectations around them are sky-high, but many organizations are falling behind because of them. 📉
WHY IT MATTERS? CTOs lament slowdowns and production issues traced to company-wide rollouts of LLM-powered coding assistants. The AI promise clashes with the reality of technical debt and security issues. 🐛
Read more:
A curated list of UI clients for accessing the ActivityPub Fediverse social network.
https://delightful.coding.social/delightful_fediverse_clients
Xiaomi releases MiMo-V2-Flash, an open-weight MoE model with 309B total and 15B active parameters, saying it excels in reasoning, coding, and agentic scenarios (Xiaomi Mimo)
https://mimo.xiaomi.com/blog/mimo-v2-flash
My @… 2025 performance/lecture video is now up here, exploring the geometry of code through vocal carnatic rhythms: https://iclc.toplap.org/2025/catalogue
Anthropic launches a Slack integration for Claude Code, expanding on the existing Claude app for Slack, launching in beta as a research preview (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/12/08/agentic-coding-comes-slack-…
#Datasparsamkeit is going to take, or already has taken, on a new meaning with coding assistants.
The less tokens one developer uses, the less expensive he will be to the company.
#ThoughtOfTheDay #LLM
Some positive signs for AI coding tools. Claude-code is a $1B run rate product six month after launch. The latest Claude Opus 4.5 model is several times cheaper and faster than last month’s version and uses about a quarter of the number of tokens to get work done. My own benchmark saw over an hour of coding reduced to 17 minutes. The high rate of change continues. The boundary of what does/doesn’t work is pushing back fast.
A thread about my use of AI in coding through 2025. Expecting similar results in 2026.
People vibe-coding an app for someone else: 😊 This is awesome, it’s the future, so amazing!
The same people when being told an app for them was vibe-coded: 🤬 See you at court!!1!
24 hour live coding stream for Palestine, 22nd November UTC - slots now open for registration:
https://eulerroom.com/
it was bound to happen, claude was lying about making commits on the app i am working on and then deleted the entire source directory. that's how you earn your vibe coding wings. luckily, i do have most of the commits and a backup.
Replit launches Mobile Apps on Replit, which enables vibe-coding of iOS apps with integrated Stripe monetization (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/15/ai-startup-replit-launches-feature-to-vibe-code-mobile-apps.html
#Steady
Wie lassen sich #Wechselrichterdaten vom APsystems EZ1 lokal speichern?
Für statistische Auswertungen müssen alle Daten kontinuierlich gespeichert werden. Wie das mithilfe von #Python
Cursor launches Visual Editor, a vibe-coding product for designers that integrates professional design controls with natural language editing (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/cursor-launches-pro-design-tools-figma/
Fun with vibe coding in Claude. Just hit start.
https://varnelis.net/files/tape-loop-laboratory.html
Extra points to anyone who can figure out songs what the two leftmost modes refer to? Each one refers to the side of one particular album.
Google Cloud partners with Replit to expand the use of Google's cloud offerings and AI models and to jointly support AI use cases for enterprise customers (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/04/google-replit-ai-vibe-coding-anthropic-cursor.html
Cursor CEO Michael Truell warns that "vibe coding" advanced projects may create "shaky foundations" and eventually "things start to kind of crumble" (Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/25/cursor-
Live coding from scratch stream is live, currently from Bogota https://live.eulerroom.com/
Cursor says it has crossed $1B in annualized revenue, has 300 employees, and its in-house models "generate more code than almost any other LLMs in the world" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/13/cursor-ai-startup-funding-round-valuati…
Why Claude Code is much more than a coding agent: it is a general-purpose AI agent that can do almost anything on a computer with impressive capabilities (Shakeel Hashim/Transformer)
https://www.transformernews.ai/p/claude-code-is-about-so-much-more
OpenAI launches GPT-5.2, its "best model yet," in Instant, Thinking, and Pro variants, with significant improvements in writing, coding, and reasoning (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-gpt-launch-gemini-code-red/
OpenAI unveils GPT-5.1-Codex-Max, saying it is "significantly better" at "long-horizon reasoning" and is the first model it has trained for Windows environments (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/op…
Cursor-developer Anysphere acquires code review startup Graphite and says Graphite will continue operating as an independent product (Beatrice Nolan/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/19/cursor-ai-coding-startup-graphite-competition-heats-up/
Anthropic unveils two Claude Code upgrades: a new plan mode that creates more precise plans, and support for Claude Code in the Claude desktop app (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack)
https://thenewstack.io/anthropics-new-claude-opus-4-5-reclaims-…
Google launches new features for its Google AI Studio developer platform, including a revamped "Build" tab to vibe code AI apps (Alexey Shabanov/TestingCatalog)
https://www.testingcatalog.com/google-revamps-ai-studio-with-new-features-for-…
ThreatModeler, which helps developers identify vulnerabilities in their applications, acquires IriusRisk, its largest competitor, a source says for $100M (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/01/08/invictus-threatmodeler-irius…
GitHub plans to launch Agent HQ, a hub to let developers access third-party AI coding agents, including Claude and OpenAI's Codex, in the coming months (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/githubs-huge-agent-hq-…
Chinese AI startup Z.ai releases GLM-4.7, an open-weight model that Z.ai says delivers significant improvements in coding performance compared to GLM-4.6 (Z.ai)
https://z.ai/blog/glm-4.7
Inception, which is building diffusion-based AI models for code and text, raised a $50M seed led by Menlo and releases an update to its Mercury coding model (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/06/inception-rai…