{"id":149,"date":"2025-09-09T21:40:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T19:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stefanescu.lu\/?p=149"},"modified":"2025-09-10T12:10:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T10:10:18","slug":"scratching-the-vibe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefanescu.lu\/?p=149","title":{"rendered":"Scratching the Vibe &#8211; How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Vibe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thirty years ago, Eric S. Raymond was experimenting with a new way of building software.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Linux way disrupted the software industry: massively collaborative, powered by the (mostly) unpaid contributions of coders all over the world. It multiplied possibilities and shocked everyone when it proved viable for one of the most complex software projects imaginable at the time: building an enterprise-grade operating system\u2014free, both as in beer and as in freedom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Raymond\u2019s essay,&nbsp;<em>The Cathedral and the Bazaar<\/em>, distilled this experience into \u201cthe Linux method,\u201d catalysing the open-source movement and a software development approach that is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hbs.edu\/ris\/Publication%20Files\/24-038_51f8444f-502c-4139-8bf2-56eb4b65c58a.pdf\">estimated<\/a>&nbsp;to have created more than&nbsp;<strong>$8.8 trillion in value<\/strong>. That code powers much of today\u2019s digital economy and paved the road for the spectacular rise of the software companies now dominating Wall Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once again, we\u2019re standing at the edge of a paradigm shift\u2014this time powered by the transformer architecture and massive investment in large language models. And, as Raymond did three decades ago\u2014though in my own smaller, humbler way\u2014when I felt an unexpected technical itch earlier this year, I decided to experiment with these new tools and this new way of building software.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the story of <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/stefanesco\/obsidize\" title=\"obsidize\">obsidize<\/a> and what I learned working on it, and it all started with a simple but annoying<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/stefanescu.lu\/?p=147\" title=\"\">itch<\/a><\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/stefanescu.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/three-ways-1024x683.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stefanescu.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/three-ways-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/stefanescu.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/three-ways-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/stefanescu.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/three-ways-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/stefanescu.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/three-ways-450x300.png 450w, https:\/\/stefanescu.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/three-ways.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty years ago, Eric S. 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