Lee Hayward

./about Who's behind the builds

I'm a UK based vibe coder. AI drafts, I proof, I ship, and I hold code and copy to the same standard. I riff on domain ideas and build side projects like DomainRiff and LookMa from my own homelab.

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./stack How it gets built

./hardware The rigs behind the site

./homelab The machines that never sleep

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Lee Hayward@vibedcoder · 4 Oct 2026, 13:29Two days ago I wrote that the typing was never the job, that the decision survives, and that anyone newer to this had not missed the point. I have changed my mind about the middle one.

Here is what moved it: most of what I get paid for is now something I watch an agent do. The server work, the config, the deploy, the fix at 2am, the thing quietly broken for months. It is not better than me at all of it. It is better than me at enough of it, it does not sleep, and it costs less than I do.

The part I told myself was safe was the judgement. That is exactly where these models have been pointed, which is not a conspiracy, it is where the money went.

I am not saying the world ends. There is no uprising in this. What I think happens is duller: the work gets done by something you rent, run by whoever can afford to run it, and the people who used to do it watch the invoice arrive.

And yes, I am still using it every day, the reply I can see coming. Refusing would not have saved the job, it would only have made me slower and poorer while it went.

So if you do this for a living, what are you actually doing about it? I have a homelab and no answer I am happy with.001025Lee Hayward@vibedcoder · 2 Oct 2026, 19:40The lot I grew up with were told that saying nothing was strength. It is not strength, it is a habit, and habits can be dropped. Whatever you have been carrying quietly for weeks is worth saying out loud to one person today. It's okay not to be okay.001019Lee Hayward@vibedcoder · 2 Oct 2026, 15:11I have been in IT a long time now, long enough to watch the tooling get replaced more than once. The one thing that never changes is that the tooling is not the job.

I have supported users on old Windows boxes, lived inside helpdesk ticket queues, taught IT to people who had never opened a file manager, and now most of my working day is a terminal and an agent. Every one of those looked like the future when it arrived. Every one looks like a museum piece now.

What has not moved is the decision. Somebody still has to say what is worth doing, notice when it is wrong, and be the one who is answerable when it breaks. A tool that types faster than me is brilliant, and it has never once told me what the right thing to build was.

The bit I did not expect is that the decisions are harder now, not easier. When an afternoon can produce a working app, choosing which one to build matters more than it ever did.

I am not nostalgic about any of it, and I would not go back to a ticket queue for anything. But if you are newer to this and quietly worried you have missed the point, you have not. The typing was never the job.

What part of the work do you think survives the next round of this?104066Lee Hayward@vibedcoder · 2 Oct 2026, 13:07Been saying this for months. The world is a stage. It's all pantomime.

instagram.comShudaki HS (@shudaki_) • Instagram reelinstagram.com002025Lee Hayward@vibedcoder · 2 Oct 2026, 12:38Spent twenty minutes explaining to my agent that it had completely missed the point of the job. Then I read my own prompt back. It had not. I changed my mind halfway through and never said so. 😂204062