Joe Germain
Efficient AI-Assisted Software Engineer & Web Developer
Windows or WSL?
You're coding an app on your Windows PC that is destined to run on a Linux server, let's say it's a TALL stack app for argument's sake. Your IDE, say VsCode, is running on the Windows side, but you test and serve your app on a WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux),...
AI: Do you use MCP? You Shall!
Model Context Protocol (MCP) is pretty new, so if you haven't heard of it, no worries. But trust me, you'll want to use it! Think of it like this: your AI code assistant always forgets the latest version of the language you're using, right? And it...
Vibe Coding: Can you actually bring your AI API key (BYOK) into Visual Studio Code without a paid subscription and use it to vibe code? The choices of really free VsCode extensions that support vibe coding with the newest coding LLMs are few for the moment. One you might...
If you're not using AI, you're stealing from your clients! I use it extensively for code completion, test generation and to a certain extent, vibe coding. About the latter, "work slop" is real and claims by AI providers that you can generate an entire app, even in a language...
