This one have been tempting, I keep thinking about how cool it would be to setup an agent ready to communicate with my phone in any way, like through whatsapp, ssh, either. And I know, I must never do it. For my sanity. Having always-on access to vibe coding would be like a doom-scrolling for programmer, a doom-vibing, really. I truly fear, I would succumb to filling up every minute of my free time (even going beyond that!) to tinker with projects, come up with new ideas, never stop working. And such vision scares me.

Even now, I installed github on my phone to have access to write down some of my thoughs whenever I feel like it, and here we are, 1 a.m. writing down a second post immediately.

So if I limit my working to 40-50h a week, it's not because I am sloppy, lazy and cannot keep the pace of moder worlds. I choose to move at my own speed, as things need time to grow, and rushing them is not always a viable solution.

I am also afraid of losing control over the code. This happens even with regular coding agents, but in terminal the loop is closer, I can easily inspect recent diff, complain about specific word choices or overall code organization. It helps with code ownership, understanding and sometimes even learning, when I set out to tackle what otherwise might be close to impossible for me. The very premise of mobile agents seems to be the opposite of that flow.

#ai