Anastasia Adizes shares four components of wiring services into automated workflows.
I spent a large portion of my weekend with my AI agents. Again :/
Now I finally get what vampire vibe coding means.
Wiring services into automated workflows. One after another. Looking up and realizing it’s dark out.
Four things nobody mentions.
- The first 90% is suspiciously fast.
You get something working almost immediately. It feels like magic.
Then the last 10%, the edge cases, the polish, the flaky bits, quietly eats most of your time. That’s where the real work hides.
- Run it cheap, but set it up right.
OpenClaw is a brilliant interface to orchestrate these workflows. And my agents run on any models I want via OpenRouter, some on cheap ones, some top-tier, which lets me balance quality and price. Still not free, though. I can’t imagine how expensive pre-built Claude agents get at scale.
- I barely even opened the other apps.
I just connected their APIs and walked away. My agent does the clicking now, so I almost feel bad for the developers who spent months perfecting those UIs and onboarding flows.
- And the part nobody warns you about: it’s addictive.
The projects that are the most fun to build are exactly the ones you can’t walk away from.
So I had to engineer my exits. Surfing, the park with my kid, a long bike ride. Places the laptop, and even Telegram, simply can’t follow.
When you can build anything, how do you pick what’s worth building? And how do you stop once you start?