# The vibes of vibecoding 5/10/26 My brother recently visited me in San Francisco. Him and his friends – first-year medical students at the Baylor College of Medicine – were invited to present a study they'd conducted: AI use in med school, the absence of clear standards, and the deep anxieties that result. ![[Pasted image 20260510155204.jpg|From Texas to SF.|600]] Having _just_ come off of my time at [[Ramp]] – pioneer of both best-in-class financial software but also of AI-age engineering via [[Ramp#^9f3029|Inspect]], etc – I didn't think too hard about it. Sure, it made sense. Medicine lags on technology, and is still "figuring out" what to do with the latest. Software, on the other hand, has found its *groove*, and is chugging forward. Tokenmaxxing, and the like. That's certainly how it feels at Ramp. Claude Code "at home" has also been quite fun: it has enabled me to work with my closest non-technical friends, and help them build their most ambitious ideas yet. And in these cases – solo, friend-fractional-CTO as I am – I can really just rip, rip, rip, and if it works, it works! Importantly: no *social* dimension to my code. ![[Pasted image 20260510152858.png|]] It's different at a new job! I took for _granted_ how fluently and deftly I could surf the tide with these tools at Ramp: I'd either written so many of the legos by hand, or had spent time in incidents, projects, manually, _slowly_ tracing through the code to figure out how it all works. And so an assistant that could take my crisp, informed expression of intent – and produce the precise output I was looking for – genuinely felt like magic. And it was, and is that!