In this episode, Scott Hanselman and Mark Russinovich explore the realities of vibe coding by walking through a few of Mark's recent AI-assisted projects, including Polypost, a tool for writing and formatting social media posts and a nearly feature-complete Mac version of ZoomIt. They discuss where AI excels, where it still struggles, and why building software has become less about writing code and more about guiding, testing, and refining an AI collaborator. Along the way, they share lessons on prompt engineering, user experience, debugging, and why human judgment remains essential even as AI accelerates development. 

 

Polypost — multi-platform post editor 

 

Takeaways:    

  • Successful AI development still relies on human decision-making 
  • Mark shares the challenges and wins of building Polypost with AI 
  • The iterative process of prompting, testing, and refining that turns AI-generated code into production-quality software 

 

 

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