Outgrowing the Vibe Code
By john crider
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Episodes: 58
Description
You started by tossing prompts at an AI and hoping the app held together. It worked... until it didn't. Outgrowing the Vibe Code is the show about what comes next.
Each episode, two builders dig into the messy, fascinating journey from haphazard "vibe coding" to real, enterprise-grade systems that write code for you. We get hands-on with the stuff that makes it work — harnesses, spec-driven development (SDD), and agent loops — without the jargon or the hype.
Whether you're still winging it or wiring up your first self-writing pipeline, pull up a chair. It's fun, it's casual, and it's the con
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Ch 20, Pt 3: Onboarding, Conflicts, and Team Mistakes
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Oct 22, 2026 |
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Ch 20, Pt 2: Coordination and Review at Agent Scale
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Oct 21, 2026 |
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Ch 20, Pt 1: Shared Harness, and the Rotating Captain
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Oct 20, 2026 |
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Ch 19, Pt 3: Prevention Beats Cleanup — and the Mistakes That Let Entropy Win
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Oct 15, 2026 |
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Ch 19, Pt 2: The Garbage Collection Agent and the Three Domains of Entropy
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Oct 14, 2026 |
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Ch 19, Pt 1: What Code Entropy Looks Like — and Why Agents Make It Worse
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Oct 13, 2026 |
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Ch 18, Pt 3: Failure Patterns, Knowing the Boundary, and Common Mistakes
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Oct 08, 2026 |
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Ch 18, Pt 2: The Diagnostic Flowchart and Five Debugging Techniques
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Oct 07, 2026 |
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Ch 18, Pt 1: Debug the System, Not the Agent: The Failure Taxonomy
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Oct 06, 2026 |
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Ch 17, Pt 3: Making It Stick: Tests, the 90-Day Roadmap, and Pitfalls
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Oct 01, 2026 |
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Ch 17, Pt 2: Growing the Zone: Graduation, Adapters, and the Strangler Fig
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Sep 30, 2026 |
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Ch 17, Pt 1: Carving Out Safe Zones in a Messy Codebase
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Sep 29, 2026 |
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Ch 16, Pt 3: Going Unattended: Worktrees, Patterns, and the Throughput Multiplier
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Sep 24, 2026 |
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Ch 16, Pt 2: Attended Parallelization: Air Traffic Control for Agents
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Sep 23, 2026 |
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Ch 16, Pt 1: The Parallelization Spectrum and Its Prerequisites
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Sep 22, 2026 |
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Ch 15, Pt 3: Running Planning as a Discipline: Sessions, Review, and Scope Control
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Sep 17, 2026 |
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Ch 15, Pt 2: Task Decomposition and the Five-Section Spec
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Sep 16, 2026 |
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Ch 15, Pt 1: Why Plan First — and What 'Planning' Actually Means
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Sep 15, 2026 |
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Ch 14, Pt 3: Critical Moments and the Payoff
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Sep 10, 2026 |
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Ch 14, Pt 2: The Seven Stages: From Skeleton to Shipped
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Sep 09, 2026 |
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Ch 14, Pt 1: The Edge of the Pool: Why TaskFlow, and the Shape of the Build
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Sep 08, 2026 |
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Ch 13, Pt 3: Operating the Memory System — Hierarchy, Staleness, and the Payoff
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Sep 03, 2026 |
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Ch 13, Pt 2: Progress Files, Decision Records, and Git as Memory
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Sep 02, 2026 |
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Ch 13, Pt 1: Your Agent Has Amnesia — The Three Types of Memory
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Sep 01, 2026 |
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Ch 12, Pt 3: Right-Sizing, Parallelism, and the Personality Army Trap
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Aug 27, 2026 |
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Ch 12, Pt 2: When to Delegate, and How to Write the Task
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Aug 26, 2026 |
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Ch 12, Pt 1: Sub-Agents Are About Isolation, Not Specialization
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Aug 25, 2026 |
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Ch 11, Pt 3: The Agent Captain and the Feedback Pipeline
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Aug 20, 2026 |
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Ch 11, Pt 2: Human Review and Triage
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Aug 19, 2026 |
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Ch 11, Pt 1: The Automated Gate Stack
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Aug 18, 2026 |
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Ch 10, Pt 3: Session Length, Templates, and the Pitfalls to Avoid
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Aug 13, 2026 |
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Ch 10, Pt 2: Plan, Execute, Checkpoint
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Aug 12, 2026 |
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Ch 10, Pt 1: Why Sessions Matter and the 60-Second Boot
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Aug 11, 2026 |
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Ch 9, Pt 3: Structural Back-Pressure — Feature Lists and Hooks
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Aug 06, 2026 |
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Ch 9, Pt 2: The Self-Correction Loop
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Aug 05, 2026 |
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Ch 9, Pt 1: Back-Pressure and the Verification Stack
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Aug 04, 2026 |
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Ch 8, Pt 3: Patterns and Mistakes
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Jul 30, 2026 |
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Ch 8, Pt 2: Five Strategies and the Context Budget
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Jul 29, 2026 |
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Ch 8, Pt 1: The Invisible Resource
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Jul 28, 2026 |
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Ch 7, Pt 3: Tool Security
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Jul 23, 2026 |
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Ch 7, Pt 2: Fewer Tools Win
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Jul 22, 2026 |
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Tools and MCP — What Your Agent Can Reach
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Jul 21, 2026 |
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Writing One That Actually Works
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Jul 16, 2026 |
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What Goes In Your AGENTS.md
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Jul 15, 2026 |
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Make Constraints Mechanical, Not Aspirational
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Jul 13, 2026 |
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Architecture as the Agent's Guardrail
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Jul 09, 2026 |
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The New Skills and Mindset Shifts
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Jul 08, 2026 |
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A Day in the Life of a Harness Engineer
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Jul 07, 2026 |
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Why Constraints Make Agents Better
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Jul 02, 2026 |
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Six Things an Agent Can't Give Itself
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Jun 30, 2026 |
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The Agent Isn't the Hard Part
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Jun 25, 2026 |
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When You Can't Trust "Done"
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Jun 23, 2026 |
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When the Code Rots
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Jun 18, 2026 |
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When the Agent Forgets
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Jun 16, 2026 |
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Why Trying Harder Fails and the Name for the Fix
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Jun 13, 2026 |
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The Honeymoon and the Wall
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Jun 12, 2026 |
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Who This Is For
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Jun 12, 2026 |
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How This Show Is Made
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Jun 12, 2026 |