The canary in the coal mine

What an extraordinary canary in the coal mine. Notoriously unpleasable target audience, insane value to end users, and growth curves that make every other product company jealous. Even the release cadence is so hot it looks dangerous. And the competition is vicious. Steve Yegge’s announcement for Gas Town (a project everyone should keep an eye on) put it better than I ever could:

The industry is an embarrassing little kid’s soccer team chasing the 2025 CLI form factor of Claude Code…

Here’s the thing: the audience debating over whether vibe coding is a sustainable practice or an antipattern? We are getting automatic updates with every Claude Code release. We’ll be the first to see if vibe coded solutions fall down, because our own work will suffer.

How long until we find out?