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Outgrowing the Vibe Code

john crider
Outgrowing the Vibe Code
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  • Outgrowing the Vibe Code

    Ch 9, Pt 3: Structural Back-Pressure — Feature Lists and Hooks

    2026/08/06 | 10 mins.
    Chapters
    00:00 — Intro
    01:41 — The feature list
    03:20 — Hooks that check for you
    05:01 — Four ways to break the loop
    07:12 — Layers that overlap
    08:29 — Midroll Break
    09:52 — Recap

    Music
    Music by The Everlove: "Goes Like This"
    Music by Cumbia Deli: "Cafecito por la Manana"
  • Outgrowing the Vibe Code

    Ch 9, Pt 2: The Self-Correction Loop

    2026/08/05 | 10 mins.
    Chapters
    00:00 — Intro
    01:51 — How the loop connects
    03:31 — When the loop won't stop — the doom loop
    05:05 — Show the failures, hide the wins
    06:43 — Back-pressure when you have no tests
    08:28 — Midroll Break
    09:45 — Recap

    Music
    Music by The Everlove: "Goes Like This"
    Music by Cumbia Deli: "Cafecito por la Manana"
  • Outgrowing the Vibe Code

    Ch 9, Pt 1: Back-Pressure and the Verification Stack

    2026/08/04 | 10 mins.
    Chapters
    00:00 — Intro
    01:52 — The confident junior developer
    03:06 — What back-pressure actually is
    04:48 — The verification stack
    06:50 — Make it automatic
    08:28 — Midroll Break
    09:39 — Recap

    Music
    Music by The Everlove: "Goes Like This"
    Music by Cumbia Deli: "Cafecito por la Manana"
  • Outgrowing the Vibe Code

    Ch 8, Pt 3: Patterns and Mistakes

    2026/07/30 | 10 mins.
    Chapters
    00:00 — Intro
    01:41 — Read-grep-act
    03:18 — Summarize and offload
    05:07 — The fresh-session checkpoint
    06:57 — Four common mistakes
    09:04 — Midroll Break
    10:24 — Recap

    Music
    Music by The Everlove: "Goes Like This"
    Music by Cumbia Deli: "Cafecito por la Manana"
  • Outgrowing the Vibe Code

    Ch 8, Pt 2: Five Strategies and the Context Budget

    2026/07/29 | 12 mins.
    Chapters
    00:00 — Intro
    01:58 — Start Fresh
    04:06 — You Are the Curator
    06:07 — Firewalls and Infinite Memory
    08:22 — The Context Budget
    10:14 — Midroll Break
    11:39 — Recap

    Music
    Music by The Everlove: "Goes Like This"
    Music by Cumbia Deli: "Cafecito por la Manana"
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About Outgrowing the Vibe Code
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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