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Renaissance Technologist

by Basil Chatha03.12.2026

The Renaissance Technologist

A former Intuit PM vibe coded an image-to-3D app to 38,000 users. Software development is changing forever.

Basil Chatha

Everyone's vibe coding. Almost no one's shipping. There's a reason the engineers seeing the biggest AI productivity gains were already the best engineers - it's because LLM access doesn't replace engineering judgment. This guide breaks down Vibe Engineering: a disciplined methodology for building real software with OpenAI Codex. You'll get the exact CLI flags to run, how to set up MCP servers so your LLM always has live API docs, the VIBE method for decomposing any project without losing control, and the 9-line AGENTS.md guardrail file that prevents 90% of mistakes.

by Basil Chatha03.06.2026

Agentic Engineering with Codex Hard Learned Lessons

Basil Chatha

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