The Vibe era

Vibe coding already has its definition in this diary: you program with instructions, text in, working software out, no code written by hand ▸ 16:34. This entry logs the generalization, argued to Julia over lunch and now on the record with a date.

The analogy: when the dot-com era arrived, the formula was almost embarrassingly simple, take everything physical and move it online. Libraries became Google, letters became Messenger, the record store became Spotify, the bookstore became Amazon ▸ 17:31. One transformation, applied everywhere, produced a generation of companies.

The claim: we are at the start of the same shaped era, and the transformation this time is adapt every existing program to an AI assistant ▸ 19:26. The argument runs on learning curves. Blender, Maya, After Effects, AutoCAD: monstrously capable tools where five months of a design course can end in one mediocre mini-project ▸ 20:21, because every keystroke spawns five new menus. Most users only ever wanted to do one specific thing. An assistant that takes “put a circle here, make it spin, color it” dissolves the curve without dissolving the power ▸ 19:15. Per-program assistants first; the endgame is one super-assistant that drives them all ▸ 22:32.

Jarvis, 2008, ya lo había diseñado →

The reference image was drawn seventeen years ago: Iron Man saying “Jarvis, close this”, grabbing a projection and tossing it in the bin. Whoever designed those interactions, 10 out of 10 ▸ 23:23.

Zenota, it turns out, was never just a notes app: it was a deliberate rehearsal of this thesis, an excuse to build one of these assistants end to end ▸ 23:48. The diary’s job here is timestamping: on 2025-06-29, “wrap everything in an assistant” was the stated market thesis of a two-person company in Bogotá. Check back against this date…