a hater called me out on YouTube... they had a point

Is the AI coding world, yet again, in complete turmoil?

Howdy ya'll -

We lost Fable 5, Cursor got acquired for a bunch of money, and we still don't have Fable 5 back ;(

I've been working hard on a few things:

#1 - Getting my next app ready for the go-to-market process. It's an agent-native nutrition app, pretty stoked to see what happens there. We'll be running a UGC strategy to see how quickly we can get to $10K/mo

#2 - Building out a custom go-to-market execution plugin. If you'd be interested in hearing more about that when it launches… well keep opening my emails :D

#3 - Building a free course covering my "vibe engineering" strategy that actually builds stuff that doesn't break all the time. I've had some YouTube haters recently claiming "tHiS iSn't vIbE cOdInG BRO" so I'm on the hunt for a new cool sounding word (I still consider it vibe coding, but hey - reply and let me know what you think).

^^^ BTW, if there's anything you'd want to see in such a course, reply below and let me know.

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NEWSWORTHY

Claude Design Get's A Makeover

If you follow my YouTube regularly, you'll know that Claude Design is my "daily driver" for actual design work.

After I've generated PRDs, I typically take to Claude Design to make it come to life, and then integrate the mockups into the project.

That's why I was pretty stoked for some of these new updates to Claude Design.

Here's the highlights:

• You can now edit directly on the Canvas. Maybe you wanna change the copy being used or make some other edits - well, now you can with simple point-and-click
• There's now 9 NEW destinations you can send your designs to besides the “handoff to claude code” function
• You can sync back and forth with Claude Code & Claude Design for better workflows by using “/design-sync”

For anyone wondering how I integrate Claude Design into actual vibe coding / vibe engineering / vibe building work, I go through it extensively in my paid group.

On a high level, it looks like this:

#1 - Make your requirements doc for the feature

#2 - Depending on project stage (fresh new build, existing build), make high-level UX decisions

#3 - Push it all to Claude Design to "see it" and get different angles on the implementation

#4 - Sync it back down to Claude Code

#5 - Run a skill that "marries" together the new designs with the existing requirements

Pretty dope workflow, 10/10 would recommend to everyone.

Data Centers In Space

With all the loud complaints & community pushback around AI datacenters, apparently we're just gonna put them in space… eventually!

There's a few concrete reasons why this would be a great move IF it became economically feasible:

• Regulatory constraints are going to get louder and louder. One commenter made me LOL a bit: “vacuum physics is easier to deal with than a city council in North Carolina”
• Physical scaling limits are… non-existent. In case you haven't been there, space is a very big place!
• The one that makes most sense to me, Power and Cooling constraints. In orbit, you have uninterrupted solar exposure + you can mine/build the infrastructure literally in space. On earth, a big chunk of total energy consumption for our beloved AI models goes to simply cooling the thing. And in case you haven't been there, space is a very cold place!

This whole concept might be a little sci-fy ish right now, but if we ever get Fable 5 back, maybe Elon can just one shot it?

https://digg.com/tech/5g1wubpq

COOL THINGS TO CHECK OUT

ShadCN Improve: I'm always on the hunt for helpful skills/plugins that help me build stuff better. This one is no exception. It audits your codebase and provides concrete fix/improvement recommendations. I connect this to my spec driven vibe coding systems to automate optimizations

Ponytail: I did a YouTube vid on this repo that went semi-viral (for me at least). First, it's funny. Second, it's actually incredibly helpful. It's kinda like those "caveman" plugins you've probably seen before, except it's for the actual implementation. It forces the LLM to make things simpler, delete unnecessary pieces of code, etc.

HumanLayer: I like to show you guys tools that I'm simply experimenting with. Human Layer is one such tool. It's best described as a sort of "software factory" with a strong "human should be in the loop" approach (which I agree with 100%). Connects to whatever coding tool you. The basic pitch is "build 2-3x faster with rigorous standards in place". Check it out

History of AI In 10 Minutes: Quick video by Fireship that explains how we got from not-even-having-computers to AI in about 10 minutes. Worth a watch if you like history and like to have general understandings of how things work under the hood.

You're only as strong as your vocabulary: Something I learned very early on with AI is that the real bottleneck is having the vocabulary to do things. This is partly why established engineers (like the OpenClaw creator) can vibe code OpenClaw while others are still trapped & struggling with their "Tinder, but for X" clones. This library gives you that vocabulary for design and UX

Agent Native Applications: Agents are obviously going to be a meaningful part of the future, and this tool helps you build agent-native apps. The reason I have it here, though, is that it actually gives you a skill to build "lite" app-add-ons without building an actual agent yourself from scratch. For example, if you're a visual guy like me, it's got a "visual-plan" skill that spins up an interactive planning doc. Pretty cool, worth checking out.

Future of News: I came across this thing randomly. It's what I imagine some big-wig at a major news outlet uses to actually keep a pulse on what's going on in the world. Really made me think how something like this could be the future of what news consumption looks like for people that like to... actually be informed about things and try to connect dots themselves.

Artifacts in Claude Code: Claude code can create artifacts for you now. Think: visual PR walkthroughs, HTML diagrams of your actual chat session, decision trees - a huge upgrade for people that like to learn more as they're building, so they can continuously build bigger and better stuff. Read about it here.

Atomic Mail: The world's gettin' weird! Agents can now have their own email inboxes? The opportunities for something like this are a bit endless. B2B cold outbound management is a straightforward one, but there's countless use cases.

That's it for this week.

-Sean