Why I Built CrispyVibe

Here’s the thing about knowledge work: no two days look alike. I move across projects, customers, initiatives, and people. I architect, debug, build, fight, build narratives, plan roadmaps, and question my existence. It’s chaos by design. The only option is to embrace change and lead it. Every day is day one.

Variety is the job. Variance is your skill, and Velocity will be squeezed out of you anyways!

AI made me faster. It also made some things worse. Every time I switched projects, I lost the thread. The AI forgot, too. Context from a different window five minutes ago had to be rebuilt from scratch. I tried the obvious fixes: define processes, write SOPs, create agent configurations for every scenario. This lifecycle, that lifecycle. Systematize everything. None of it worked.

DLL Hell. Package Hell. Prompt Hell. MCP Hell. Skill Hell. Plugin Hell. What the Hell.

The variety is too high. You can’t processify a job where every problem is new. So I stopped trying to eliminate my vibe and started supporting it.

I work in a secure environment. Information protection is job zero. As I evaluated the available tools, I kept coming back to the same questions.

Am I buying this product, or am I the product? Apparently, you can still be a product after buying it.

What gets shared? What’s the security posture? Can I actually use this where it matters? Every platform wanted me to stay on its platform. That’s fine. That’s their business. But I want to use Kiro CLI today, Claude Code tomorrow, Codex next week, something that doesn’t exist yet the week after, or all of them at the same time. I don’t want to pick a side. I want to stay on my side.

Your Vibe Matters

“Vibe coding is unserious. Reckless. Lesser.” I disagree.

Your vibe is the result of years of practice. It’s what you do when you’re not thinking about what to do. It’s what differentiates you from everyone else. My vibe has set me apart throughout my career working with some of the top companies in the world. People who dismiss vibe coding are confusing confidence with carelessness.

So I built CrispyVibe. No tracking—I count downloads, and that’s it. No cookies. No telemetry. The app doesn’t phone home. No account required. Download it and use it. It’s open source, so you can read every line. I’m not trying to build a business here. I’m building a tool I want to use every day, and I hope to make a few friends along the way. A workspace that respects how I actually work, not how a product manager thinks I should work.

Whether you live in the terminal or prefer a GUI. Whether you write code from scratch or reshape what AI generates. Whether you run one agent or seven across five projects. Your vibe is yours. It’s valid. It comes from everything you’ve practiced, even in your sleep. This is a judgement-free zone. Keep your vibe crispy.

Just you and your vibe.

— Manu Mishra · LinkedIn