My book, Swimming in Tech Debt, has a chapter devoted to how I use AI in my tech debt and programming practice. I wrote that chapter in the summer of 2025, and to make sure it stays useful, I am going to keep updating the chapter here.

Addendum

I’ll be using a reverse chronological format so that my most recent updates are at the top.

2025 August 26

Again on the Vibe Showcase, I was asked to describe tech debt to non-coders. I put a video of part of my answer on Linked In and also wrote this post: Describing Tech Debt to Vibe Coders.

2025 August 12

I appeared on a Vibe Code Showcase where I talked about a project I am working on (teaching my nephew how to write video games in JavaScript) and some of the lessons I would give pure vibe coders.

A lot of the problems people are running into with pure vibe coding are similar to problems regular programmers had with each other before AI. Some of the solutions we use apply to AI programming.

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