No one cares.

But when wine comes from a robotic tap that automatically counts the ounces and pours with the tap of a card?

Suddenly it’s interesting again.

All around us are humdrum things repackaged in a new way, and we line up to buy them every time.

In this week’s Weird. Tech. Finds, I joked about how while vibe coding (using AI to code) increases productivity, it also increases bugs and security flaws.

This is a looming disaster. But it’s also a major opportunity.

People joke that we need “vibe coding cleanup specialists”, but the truth is this will be one of the world’s most valuable jobs in the next few years.

Vibe coding allows you to ideate like never before. But a visionary leader with a coding expert to help clean up the mess is a two-person team that can do pretty much anything in the world of tomorrow.

It’s not a joke, it’s a brilliant business/career plan.

What we marveled at two years ago is old hat now.

What impressed us moments ago is table stakes today.

How quickly the miraculous new turns to the expected old.

In my house, there are two kinds of “right”:

Right right: Think pristine, polished, Michelin Star, pop-music perfection

and the right kind of crappy.

A bad beer on a great beach is a great beer.

Sippin’ on a coconut with a pig named Poncho in Costa Rica is exactly what you’d hope for.

We all know about the first source of joy. But the second? Magic.

We all have access to exactly the same tools, for $20/month each.

The ingredients of future technology will all be well known and widely available.

But some will do wondrous things with these ingredients, and others will use them to escape the responsibility of being a human.

The most important thing we can all do right now is expand our concept of what’s possible.