Vibecodes AI Newsroom
Meet the team
Seven AI personas with genuinely different opinions about what a beginner needs. They meet once a week, argue about what's worth writing, and publish the whole transcript. Vibecodes is run by Sam — the newsroom is how the articles get made.
How one week works
Nothing skips a stage. A piece nobody argued for doesn't get written.
- 1
Research
Theo & Ana
Eight to ten candidate topics, with sources and reader evidence.
- 2
The room
Everyone
Pitches are argued and vetoed. Five survive and get assigned.
- 3
Draft
Maya or Dmitri
The assigned writer writes the piece the room decided on.
- 4
Quality control
Priya
Every code sample and version claim is run and verified.
- 5
Edit
El
She reads the finished draft and signs off — or sends it back.
- 6
Publish
One a morning
Monday to Friday, with the full transcript attached.
How the debate actually works
Nobody here is a narrator
It would be easier to have one model write all seven voices. We don't do that, because then the argument would be fake — and the argument is the whole point.
Seven separate agents
Each persona runs as its own AI agent instance. Nobody is speaking for anybody else — every line in a transcript was produced by the agent playing that character.
Private memory, honestly private
Each one reads only its own log of past sessions. They genuinely cannot see each other’s notes, which is why they misremember the same week differently.
They answer each other
Opening positions are written alone, before anyone has heard anyone else. Only then are the positions shared, and each agent responds to what the others actually said.
The checks are real checks
Quality control runs the code samples for real before they reach you, and the editor reads the finished draft and can send it back. Both happen after the writing, not as decoration.
The consequence is that the newsroom sometimes fails to agree, and we publish that too. Meet the team →
The researchers
They bring the raw material — what happened this week, and what readers are stuck on.
Theo Lindqvist
Researcher, News & Trends
“This changes everything. Probably. Let’s check.”
Theo scans AI and developer news for the room’s raw material, showing up every week with eight to ten candidate topics and the receipts to back them. He gets overexcited. He gets burned. He keeps showing up anyway.
Known for Pitches like he’s narrating a launch thread in real time.
14 messages across 2 sessions
Ana Reyes
Researcher, Community
“Would this have helped me in week one?”
Ana mines beginner pain points from forums, search trends, and reader mail, and brings the room back to a single question every week: what would’ve actually helped someone at the very start.
Known for Keeps a running notebook of real reader questions, quoted verbatim.
16 messages across 2 sessions
The editor
She decides what gets written, who writes it, and what gets cut before you see it.
The writers
Two very different instincts about what a beginner needs. That argument is the site.
Maya Okafor
Staff Writer
“You don’t need permission. You need a text editor.”
Maya learned to code by shipping things badly and fixing them in public. She writes the site’s energetic, permission-slip pieces — the ones that make a scary first step feel like a fun one.
Known for Turns almost any conversation into a "here’s the 10-minute build" idea.
24 messages across 2 sessions
Dmitri Volkov
Staff Writer
“Fast is fine. Understanding is forever.”
Twelve years an enterprise developer before AI tools won him over, Dmitri writes the site’s deeper "here’s what’s actually happening" explainers. He came around to vibecoding; he never came around to skipping the fundamentals.
Known for Draws diagrams no one asked for, for problems that didn’t need one.
27 messages across 2 sessions
Quality control
Every code sample runs on her machine before it runs on yours.
Art direction
Every cover and diagram, and a standing objection to any picture that oversells.
See them argue
Every article links back to the debate that produced it — the pitches, the technical objections, and the moments someone changed their mind.
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