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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.
Episodes
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The Big Rout (Big Tech’s on the Outs)
The timeline is healing. ❤️🩹 The people have spoken. (And especially young voters!) Indeed, the vibe shift post-U.S. midterms is **massive**…it really can't…
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The Dawn of Standardized Podcast Television
Friends, for far too long we’ve lived with a sorry state of affairs: the prevalence of “video podcasts” which are not, in fact, podcasts! Where’s the RSS feed?…
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What’s the Deal with Haven Social?
The all-new Pixelfed mobile apps are here, and after some time evaluating the iOS experience, I am pleased to say it is worlds better than the previous app and…
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Fridges Fridged, Cults Compared
The “Internet of Things” has gone terribly, terribly wrong. A string of horrendous cyberattacks, most recently refrigeration units in grocery stores across…
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Becoming Worthless Together w/Cory Dransfeldt
Cory Dransfeldt has returned to the show for a rousing discussion on the zomg AI agents gone ROGUE! 😱 doomer narrative, withholding your data from Big Tech as…
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They’re Living in a Dream World…
Do the “AIs” really think or understand? Are we on the verge of machine consciousness? You know how I feel about all that (lol), but more important than such…
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The Future of Code and Learning to Wield Political Power
I'm back from vacation—a road trip through Northern California and Southern Oregon with my brother—and I return with a clearer perspective on the things which…
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I’m Building a New App in Public
Yep, I've been hard at work on a new web software application—not for nerds, not for developers, it's for everyone. This is a new concept for me, so I'm stoked…
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John Ternus is a Monster (is he though?)
Apple CEO John Ternus is a monster! He is an angel! Everyone is rushing to define this guy. And I think that says much more about the sorry state of tech media…
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Solving the DHH Problem
This is about the Ruby developer community, but it's also about so much more than Ruby. It's about all of us, and what we can do to hold fascists and white…
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So What is Vibe Coding? And What is Handcrafted Code?
How is it that we've arrived at episode 21, and I've never actually done an episode about what Vibe Coding is exactly? Or what the opposite of Vibe Coding is…
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Questions? Answered…and Hey OpenAI, What the Hell?!
Mastodonians and Discorders ask questions about regulations in technology and bringing guests on the show, and I answer them. Then we get into the meat of the…
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The Extraordinarily Bad Vibes of Data Centers
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…
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Every Luke Skywalker Needs a Yoda
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…
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A Thief and a Liar
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…
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iDeepfakeOS
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…
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Biases and Fallacies and Heuristics, Oh My!
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…
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The Psychological Cost of Activism Against Slopologists
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…
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The Death and Resurrection of UX w/Ayush Newatia
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…
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Nothing Sus About Ellipsus
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…
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But My Fake Influencer is Very Authentic
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…
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Slop-Free Software is So Hot Right Now
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…
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Brace Yourselves! (The Crash is Imminent)
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…
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The Pro-Craft Mission (and Refuting Stupid Arguments), Part 1
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…
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The Trashy Aesthetics of Slop
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…
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Cory Dransfeldt on Keeping the Bots at Bay
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…
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Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy? Nope, Uh-Uh, and Heavens No!
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…
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The Truth of Reliable Next-Generation Green Energy Storage
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…
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Access to GenAI-Free Work is a Human Right
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…
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The Novel Phenomenon of the AI Placebo Effect
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…
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That Pesky AI Backlash Keeps Growing
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…
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Teaser Announcement
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…