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June 24, 2026

Vibe coding without the vibes

Twist my arm and give me a Mac Mini

Dogboss put Frank, Strategent’s Chief Technical Officer, in a moral quandary: replace his missing engineers with AI bots or lose his job. Although many tech leaders are faced with a similar choice today, it’s not usually because their company hired a Business Witch. What could go wrong?

A six panel comic showing Frank, CTO, working with MaudeCode to build a clone of software engineer Darlington. The next day, "Darlington" appears in the Slack.
Look who already has a PR

Will DarlingtonBot be as good as the real Darlington? Will his team be able to tell the difference? Stay tuned.


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