Ben Collins
231 posts
@BenjaminT007
Building Woz - your AI technical cofounder @withwoz1
Calling all student founders. Join the Woz Buildfast Hackathon March 14-15. Compete for $30K+ in cash, credits, and prizes from companies like OpenAI, RevenueCat, Stripe, Clerky, and more. withwoz.com/buildfast
Mobile apps generated over $160B in 2025. Many vibe coding tools are great for web apps and prototypes, but they weren't designed for production mobile apps. The moment you need payments, authentication, ads, a real database, or scalable backend logic... you hit a wall. Woz (@WithWoz1) is a newer tool worth watching. It's an AI app builder designed specifically for mobile, with all that infrastructure included from the start. No rebuilding later. No duct tape. We've been featuring it as a tool for NCF members to explore. Free to start building with. withwoz.com
A lot of people quote tweeted this as 1 year anniversary of vibe coding. Some retrospective - I've had a Twitter account for 17 years now (omg) and I still can't predict my tweet engagement basically at all. This was a shower of thoughts throwaway tweet that I just fired off without thinking but somehow it minted a fitting name at the right moment for something that a lot of people were feeling at the same time, so here we are: vibe coding is now mentioned on my Wikipedia as a major memetic "contribution" and even its article is longer. lol The one thing I'd add is that at the time, LLM capability was low enough that you'd mostly use vibe coding for fun throwaway projects, demos and explorations. It was good fun and it almost worked. Today (1 year later), programming via LLM agents is increasingly becoming a default workflow for professionals, except with more oversight and scrutiny. The goal is to claim the leverage from the use of agents but without any compromise on the quality of the software. Many people have tried to come up with a better name for this to differentiate it from vibe coding, personally my current favorite "agentic engineering": - "agentic" because the new default is that you are not writing the code directly 99% of the time, you are orchestrating agents who do and acting as oversight. - "engineering" to emphasize that there is an art & science and expertise to it. It's something you can learn and become better at, with its own depth of a different kind. In 2026, we're likely to see continued improvements on both the model layer and the new agent layer. I feel excited about the product of the two and another year of progress.
Ever see a tree fucking EXPLODE due to the extreme cold? I’ve watched this about seven times so far and I’m not done yet.
Building your first mobile app is way harder than X makes it look. Some weeks you ship nothing. And yes… it’s frustrating. It’s the weekend. I’m on the train. My only goal: finish this app. What are you shipping this weekend?
This glorified notes app Is literally making $80,000/mo And you’re still overthinking what app to build 😭💀🥀
