portajohn's blog

By portajohn, history, 3 months ago, In English

Every day I see a new possibly vibecoded all-in-one CP tool that promises to accelerate one's workflow. Yet they almost all seem to be built by newbies and pupils, whose workflows clearly have not amounted to much.

In the vast majority of my experience, the bottleneck is in my head, not in the tools I have. Perhaps skilled users don't create these things because they don't need them, and the people that do need them are just preparing to solve problems to avoid actually solving problems?

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Vibing with vibe coding ig!

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mostly Indians

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because after getting above specialist you discover the secret sauce literally is "just solve more problems slightly above your level" and realize you don't need all that. At most you need some bot to give you random problems of a certain rating so you don't have to scroll through the problemset with filters