Test-n-Tell - tiny apps, Big ideas

  When I started vibe coding, I had a budget in mind. I knew I needed to learn a bunch of new AI tools, and that would cost something: subscriptions, hosting, third-party tools, APIs. And it did cost me a bit… then a bit more… and finally a lot more. So here’s me sharing a few things I learned (and paid for) so you don’t have to.

  There’s a persistent myth in product development: that what you ship is the roadmap. In reality, what you ship is the organisation that built the roadmap.

  Spreadsheets are among the most powerful tools in modern organisations. They clarify plans. They align teams. They make trade-offs visible. They help leaders reason about complexity. But they also create one of the most dangerous illusions in product development: the illusion of certainty. 

  I've been doing a lot of vibe coding lately, and one tech stack emerged for me as the most practical. Spoiler alert 1: it's Firebase + Codex + Google Cloud. Spoiler 2: tomorrow it could change.

One of the most common leadership anti-patterns in modern organisations is this: A high-performing individual contributor gets promoted into management… …and continues competing with their team on execution.

“Vibe coding”, building software by describing intent and letting AI generate, refactor, and orchestrate code, is quickly evolving into something more powerful: agentic coding. Systems that don’t just autocomplete code, but reason across files, plan changes, run tests, deploy, monitor, and iterate. If this trajectory continues, we are not just accelerating engineering. We are reshaping the entire product value chain.