The typographer in 1985 was right about craft and wrong about power. Desktop publishing didn’t abolish aesthetic judgment, it abolished the gatekeeping.

We are there again with AI-assisted coding. I’ve been thinking about a specific corner of it: personal software. Not enterprise tools. The vast underserved middle, where the thing you need has never existed because it only makes sense for you.

Wrote a manifesto: https://fieldnotes.thomashoerup.dk/the-vibe-coding-manifesto-building-without-permission.html
#VibeCoding #PersonalSoftware #NoCode​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​