Why I Built CrispyVibe

Here’s the thing about knowledge work: no two days look the same. I work across multiple projects, customers, initiatives, people. I architect, I debug, I build, I fight, I build narratives, I plan roadmaps, I question my existence. Chaos by design. There is no other option but to embrace change and lead the effort in championing 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. But it also made somethings worse. Every time I switched projects, I lost the thread. The AI lost its memory. Context that existed five minutes ago in a different window had to be rebuilt from scratch. I tried to fix this the obvious way. Define processes. Write SOPs. Create agent configurations for every scenario. This lifecycle, that lifecycle. Systematize everything. It didn’t work.

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. When I looked at the available tools, I kept asking the same questions.

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

What gets shared? What’s the security posture? Can I actually use this where it matters? And every platform wanted me to stay on their 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 accumulated result of years of practice. It’s what you do when you’re not thinking about what to do. It’s the thing that differentiates you from everyone else. My vibe is what has set me apart throughout my career working with some of the top companies in the world. The people dismissing 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. Open source, you can read every line. I’m not trying to build a business here. I’m trying to build a tool I want to use every day and build some 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’s the result of 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