We’re in the midst of a revolution in which free software can be generated faster than the cost of paying for the software it is replacing. I mentioned replacing a third party analytics tool in Slab (writeup) and shared it with a friend who had a very similar story about him vibing up his own…

This is a retrospective on vibecoding Slab 17 for others interested in the engineering. I set out to make Slab without writing any of the code myself. I’d done some vibecoding experiments of small toys and concluded that all of the capabilities I would need were entirely within the wheelhouse of existing tools. The only…