248: AI All the Way Down

Ben had been riding high on vibe coding—throwaway scripts, zero attachment, pure productivity magic. Then he tried the same approach on a project he actually cares about and watched that 10x feeling crater to something closer to 10%. The bottleneck, it turns out, was never the typing. The hosts dig into what it feels like to let go of code you used to care about, whether "write-only code" is actually the future, and the growing gap between building software and keeping it alive. Links Vibe Coding by Gene Kim & Steve Yegge - The audiobook on AI-assisted development 1Password: From Magic to Malware - How OpenClaw's agent skills became a supply chain attack surface TLDR Newsletter - Source of the "write-only code" concept Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord ! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky . New episodes drop weekly on Thursday. And, if you're feeling the love , support us on Patreon . With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media . Full show notes and transcript here .

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248: AI All the Way Down is an episode from Working Code by Adam Tuttle, Ben Nadel, Carol Hamilton, Tim Cunningham.

This episode is 61:10 long.

This episode was published on Feb 12, 2026.

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