Dixie J

Introducing Linear Agent. Built directly into Linear and accessible everywhere, it understands your roadmap, issues, and code. Ask anything. Command everything.

Today’s Figma MCP update makes it one of the strongest integrations with Claude Code I’ve seen. You can now use Claude Code to design in Figma with the the full context of your design systems.

Cursor can now create new components and frontends in Figma using your team's design system.

You just proved my point! I'm a UI/UX designer. My vibe coding will always be design-oriented with precision, unlimited refinement, and iterations. Basically, I now have all the freedom I need to cook and change ingredients along the way. Also, try stealing the logic and intent behind my design 🧘🏽‍♂️ I will launch this app on all stores for free, so just enjoy the process!

why are vibe coders mostly web developers?

I'm not very happy with the code quality and I think agents bloat abstractions, have poor code aesthetics, are very prone to copy pasting code blocks and it's a mess, but at this point I stopped fighting it too hard and just moved on. The agents do not listen to my instructions in the AGENTS.md files. E.g. just as one example, no matter how many times I say something like: "Every line of code should do exactly one thing and use intermediate variables as a form of documentation" They will still "multitask" and create complex constructs where one line of code calls 2 functions and then indexes an array with the result. I think in principle I could use hooks or slash commands to clean this up but at some point just a shrug is easier. Yes I think LLM as a judge for soft rewards is in principle and long term slightly problematic (due to goodharting concerns), but in practice and for now I don't think we've picked the low hanging fruit yet here.

don't use Vercel

spent an evening running the full gstack sprint on a real feature. /office-hours → /plan-ceo-review → /plan-eng-review → build → /review → /ship. three things stood out: /design-consultation analyzed my existing site, found inconsistencies, proposed updates to my design language, and built a live preview page so i could see everything before committing. after that it created a DESIGN.md file, every new component automatically followed the same system. no more "why does this button look different on every page." i normally use codex for engineering work because it's rock solid for code. but design and planning is where claude shines, so i ran the plan and build phase in claude code this time. halfway through, claude detected that codex was running on the same machine and asked me if i wanted codex to review the code before it continued. i didn't configure this. it just noticed and offered to hand off. two different AIs figured out how to collaborate without me setting it up. going from "what should i build" to "shipped PR" felt like managing a team that actually talks to each other.

- Claude = coding. ($20/mo) - Supabase = backend. (Free) - Vercel = deploying. (Free) - Namecheap = domain. ($12/yr) - Stripe = payments. (2.9%/transaction) - GitHub = version control. (Free) - Resend = emails. (Free) - Clerk = auth. (Free) - Cloudflare = DNS. (Free) - PostHog = analytics. (Free) - Sentry = error tracking. (Free) - Upstash = Redis. (Free) - Pinecone = vector DB. (Free) Total monthly cost to run a startup: ~$20 There has never been a cheaper time to build.