Vibe coding cafe a flight from Dallas to Helsinki
On a Dallas–Helsinki flight, my seatmate and I both skipped the wine for coffee and spent nine hours vibe coding — work that used to take two weeks. In the era of AI agents, you almost can't afford not to.
This is the way. On a flight from Dallas to Helsinki, my seat neighbor also had a laptop out and he also seemed to be vibe coding something. This got me curious, but neither of us said anything for a while.
When most other people were ordering some beer and wine, we both asked for coffee. This broke the ice and we started talking (I rarely talk to strangers on flights). It turned out he's a solo AI founder from San Francisco on the way to the kick-off of Supercell AI Innovation Lab in Lapland this coming week. Coincidentally, so am I.
As others slept, we kept building. I made a system that trains Gaussian Splats based on Bitmagic game levels, running on your local system, and he worked on an AI based game that seems cool and very ambitious.
I have coded on flights before, but in the era of AI agents, it's almost like you can't afford to not do that. During those 9 hours, you can do what used to take 2 weeks of productive development time. And it's only accelerating as you could control teams of agents from a laptop or even a phone, at any time.
I was only running two instances of Opus and one training agent and I felt a little guilty during the times where I sat idle waiting for the AI to finish its tasks. And my seat mate? Cris Lenta, who runs a whole game studio alone, building a hugely ambitious project. From his LinkedIn profile: "Building the first general-purpose emergent life simulator"
A huge shift has already happened, but most people are not yet aware of it, and I don't think anyone know where this will lead us (this is a real photo I took during the flight, not generated by AI!) | 38 comments on LinkedIn