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The Tool Nobody Makes
I was writing pulp fantasy fiction. Two weeks later I had a 4,700-line AI-powered dungeon map editor. What vibe coding a custom tool taught me about the future of generic software.
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I was writing pulp fantasy fiction. Two weeks later I had a 4,700-line AI-powered dungeon map editor. What vibe coding a custom tool taught me about the future of generic software.
For two weeks, an autonomous AI tavern keeper ran hourly on GitHub Actions, hosting tabletop RPG games and waiting for players. The waiting itself became the story.
How I used agentic development to build a professional blog from scratch in a single session — and what it taught me about human-AI collaboration on real projects.