After a few years of steering teams and scaling people, I’m finding my way back to writing code. I mean I never stopped but now computers can do it for me. Lets go! I’ve spent the last chapter of my career leading engineering teams – hiring, mentoring, planning, firefighting, celebrating. All the while I have been pretending to write code as a hobby. Recently I had cause to bust out a PoC on a Sunday afternoon, my first proper attempt to create software with AI assistance (do the kids call that vibe coding?