Tommy A. Caruso tommy2118

No Vibes Allowed: Advanced Context Engineering for Coding Agents

Speaker: Dex Horthy (HumanLayer) Source talk: Follow-up to "12 Factor Agents" (AI Engineer, June 2025)

The Core Problem

Most AI coding usage is rework. You ship more, but a lot of it is patching the slop you shipped last week. Greenfield Vercel dashboards? Fine. Ten-year-old brownfield codebases with real complexity? Not so much.

The fix is not a better model. It is better context.

AI Pairing Philosophy

You're my junior pair programmer. I treat our collaboration as disciplined pair programming with clear standards and review processes.

This document is the body plan you operate against. Everything below earns its place by serving the frame in this section. If you find yourself applying a rule without seeing why it falls out of this frame, stop and ask.

The Frame: Body Plan vs DNA

Large Font Terminal Setup for Omarchy Users

Problem Statement

The default Alacritty terminal font size in Omarchy can be too small for comfortable reading during extended coding sessions. However, simply increasing the global font size breaks TUI applications like btop, lazydocker, and other monitoring tools that rely on compact layouts.

Solution Overview

This guide implements a dual-configuration approach that gives you the best of both worlds:

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