Vibe Coded

Vibe Coded has turned 1! It's hard to believe a year has gone by already, and in so many ways I feel like I'm just getting started. Thank you, my audience, for helping it grow, for all of the wonderful feedback I've received, and for the appreciable evidence that people care about the topics covered here. Speaking of which, today's topic is a whirlwind tour through just a few days of data center-r...

There's a malaise in our society. Something has gone very, very wrong. People are craving mentorship, professional nurturing, a sense that someone's got their back. And increasingly, that someone is a chatbot. Oh no! What can we do to help steer people away from the slop machines and back to humans? How can we build new creative communities which welcome folks in and make them feel supported and e...

Many news media publications and rights holders seem to be bowing at the altar of Big AI. The New York Times is not among them. “We cannot allow AI cheerleaders to dominate the public conversation” says NYT publisher A.G. Sulzberger. That and much more covered in today's whirlwind tour of recent news, from a ban on much AI usage in Norwegian elementary schools to the specter of "workslop" dragging...

Tim Cook's final appearance in an Apple keynote, so of course he went out with style and flair! Just kidding. It was so-o-o-o boring. 😴 Unfortunately, so was most of the rest of the WWDC26 announcements—that is, when they weren't absolutely enraging. A deepfake generator of your friends? Really Apple? This is what your legendary focus on UX has come to in the twilight of Cook's tenure? A Siri whi...

Hype—any hype, but in this instance tech hype—only works because humans are fallible . We fall prey to quirks of the mind, real-world hacks which dilute our rational thinking and cause us to sink into a mire cynically crafted for us by bad actors who are more than willing to manipulate and trick others for their own gain. In this episode, I will explain to you some of these mind games: the heurist...

It's a jungle out there. Disorder and confusion everywhere. No one seems to care. Well I do! Hey, who’s in charge here? It may seem like I'm quoting from a famous Randy Newman song, and…OK yes, I am! 😂 But this is the world we live in. Having to deal with AI-pilled morons on the regular, feeling forced to leave improperly moderated communities overrun with slop, unfollowing slopologists, constant...

Marketing has taken over product design. Usability used to mean something. Now software is becoming less "human", a symptom of a wider business culture sucking up to AI companies because of far too much capital flooding the markets. But it doesn't have to be this way. Join us for a merry dialog on the hazards of A/B testing your way into a good product ( spoiler alert! you can't! ), asking the why...

If you’re like a lot of folks now wondering if it’s even possible to build delightful, human-centric & humane SaaS products for the web anymore, Ellipsus is proof that yes it’s possible ! One of the great things about Ellipsus is they have been standing with writers and creators against the onslaught of generative AI and slop. And “Our Survey on Creativity, Writing, and Reading in the Age of A...

In a phrase I never expected to utter: I wholeheartedly endorse the upcoming Chinese regulations! Yes, China is getting ready to crack down on so-called "digital humans", requiring proper labeling as such as well as forbidding any deepfakes based on real people without their informed consent. Many other restrictions are proposed as well, and in this episode I go through the details and explain how...

Welcome back to the 2026 season kickoff of Vibe Coded ! In this episode, I cover the phenomenon of how open source software projects are either fending off or embracing the onslaught of agentic coding services, and the ways in which the technology is splitting the F/LOSS community asunder. I just keep thinking, it didn't have to be this way . But here we are! 📢 Hosted by Jared White 💬 Chat with...

The state of play in late 2025 and my expectation that the bubble will burst in 2026. The “Agentic Age” did not materialize this year. Anti-AI activism is heating up…people are noping the f out of the Torment Nexus . Gen-Z and Gen Alpha are turning against the slop machines. That's AI! goes the new lingo. Microsoft's AI CEO is getting pummeled online and a post-Windows PC landscape looking increas...

The same tired, clichéd arguments keep coming up over and over again why we should all welcome our new robot overlords, so I'm here to knock 'em all down and push back systematically…but most importantly, make the case for the Pro-Craft Movement and how vital it is that we preserve and champion the historical & emotional components of Human Creativity. Hosted by Jared White Produced by Intuiti...

I’ve talked in length about the ethical quandaries surrounding generative AI, from the industrial-scale theft of intellectual property to the ways it harms both the natural as well as digital environments due to its extractive nature. But I also want to talk about the aesthetics of the slop output we have to contend with now on a regular basis, and I don’t just mean the political side of it—I and...

In this episode, I have a lively chat with Cory Dransfeldt about getting started as a web developer making band websites and his recent work on design systems, his passion for supporting creators and the preservation of craft, the ai.robots.txt open source project, what the GitHub CEO said ( note: we recorded this episode before he announced he was stepping down), releasing a music app for Navidro...

In this episode I talk about the shocking decline in AI safety, why AI is becoming a religion and that shouldn’t surprise us, software developer reluctance and growing impatience in using these tools, and the LMDs of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Oh yes, we’re going there! Hosted by Jared White Produced by Intuitive Future // Join Intuitive+ Today and support the show for only $5 a month Subscri...

You're listening to the audio edition of my newsletter Cycles Hyped No More , right here on the Vibe Coded podcast. In this issue I talk about The Truth 🫡 of Reliable Next-Generation 🔋 Green Energy Storage, because in case you're not aware, there is a concerted effort here in America to mislead the public when it comes to the topic of renewable energy . And rather than jump and wave our hands an...

In this episode I talk about mental health in the face of changing technology, epistemological truth claims, and the future of work. Evidence is mounting that engaging credulously with unskilled gaslighting algorithms which simulate intelligence but lack any real intelligence is a hazard to human flourishing. It's a matter of dignity. It's a matter of craft. It's a matter of truth. And always reme...

In this episode, I talk about this growing sense of dread that rather than genAI ushering in a glorious new age of superintelligence, it's actually manipulating us into believing this is happening all while making us way dumber…and in some cases, causing mental breaks from reality. Hosted by Jared White Produced by Intuitive Future (support the show for only $5 a month) Subscribe to the Cycles Hyp...

Fellow netizens, the moment you've all been waiting for: the inaugural episode of Jared White's new podcast Vibe Coded ! Magic escalators & floating men? Bots blocked bad by big business? 100 books read a day? All that and a whole lot more…most def you're not gonna want to miss this! Follow Jared on Mastodon / Read Cycles Hyped No More newsletter Links The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger (W...

Hello, I’m Jared White, and welcome to Vibe Coded, a show about the perils & pitfalls of creative intellectual automation; and why the future of good Internet vibes is for the humans, by the humans. Subscribe to the Cycles Hyped No More newsletter Read The Internet Review