#weeklyreview 42/2026

Mushroom

Sunday a woman from our village gave us a guided tour through the forest explain us the various available mushrooms. Which ones are edible and which ones are poisenous. Of course eveyone was warned to be careful and leave the mushrooms in the forest if they are not 100% sure what they are picking. That was quite informative and I learned a few new mushrooms that I didn’t know before. About 20 people showed up and were following the stories and chatting aloing while walking the forest. Quite nice.

A bottle labeled "Spillings-Likör" and a vase of orange marigolds sit on a wooden table, with various mushrooms laid out on a tray in the background, where people's legs are visible.
A wreath made of various animal bones and bone fragments is wired to the trunk of a pine tree in a forest. The bones are a mix of light beige and off-white colors, some showing signs of weathering.
Three red and white spotted mushrooms and a cluster of brown mushrooms emerge from a forest floor covered in green grass, moss, and pine needles.
A person's hand holds two tan-colored mushrooms, revealing their intricate, textured undersides. The person wears a blue jacket over a red top, with a dark strap visible against the red fabric.
Various natural objects like leaves, berries, bark, and mushrooms are arranged on small squares of colored paper on a bed of moss and pine needles. The arrangement forms a scattered line across the ground.
Overhead view of five people, including two children, gathered in a circle on grassy ground, examining red and yellow mushrooms and berries with their hands. A woven basket sits nearby.
An overhead shot of an autumn forest floor with an arrangement of colorful mushrooms, leaves, berries, pine needles, and sprigs of greenery laid out on a bed of moss and grass.

Vibe Coding

Started to vibe code my own Blog Editor and currently drafting this article with it.

This week ye olde hackers dudes met again and we’ve got a demo of a pretty cool app by Tim. Of course completely vibe coded but awesome AF.

All of these old guys are professional world-class coders. They all are mainly using coding assistants nowadays and don’t write code themselves anymore. And they do amazing stuff. They did amazing stuff before. But now they deliver stuff in a matter of hours instead of month.

But … hear me out. They are also skewing the picture of what’s possible with these coding tools. Their success might look like anyone can now create software with these tools. You just enter a prompt and out comes a usable application.

The reality is different though. Those guys know exactly what to do, what to ask the LLMs and what would be a stupid design decisions. For them it’s really just a tool thats typing code much faster than they can do it themselves.

For a layperson this is impossible. The layperson can’t even describe properly what they’d want from a piece of software. They usually don’t know the technical terms that would specify a certain functionality. They don’t even know what they don’t know. Sure, they might iteratively arrive at some sort of working software eventually. But at a much much higher token cost and time consumption. And the output will be far from the quality that these experiences software developers can produce.

Maybe an analogy is building your own car. You can go into a hardware store and buy all the parts and tools needed. You theoretically have access to all the materials and tools you need. Still you’d not be able to build a usable car yourself just because you have all these tools available. Because you wouldn’t even know with which part to start. What things are called etc.

And for software that’s largely the same. Just because your coding assistant could theoretically churn out code fast, doesn’t mean it magically builds a whole app for you. Not even talking about the operations and maintenance of an app…

Digga

On Saturday we dug a trench for the electric mains cable. The old GDR cable was too weak and old for the house. So while we’re at it, we’re replacing the old cable. 35m trench of 70 cm depth. Fortunately I had the family helping and we were done by about 1:30 pm.

A long, narrow trench is dug through a garden, with piles of excavated dirt on either side. A spade stands upright in the trench near a large evergreen shrub, and a concrete path is visible on the left.
A deep, narrow trench runs through a grassy area, with piles of excavated dirt on either side. A person in blue pants and boots stands over the trench, and a shovel is stuck upright in the middle of it.

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