The Cognitive Revolution
Vibe-Coding an Attention Firewall, w/ Steve Newman, creator of The Curve
April 19, 20262h 9m · 24,119 words
Show notes
Steve Newman, creator of Writely and founder of the Golden Gate Institute for AI, shares the personal AI toolkit and vibe-coding practices that have reshaped how he works. He walks through bespoke tools including an attention firewall, a reading app for surfacing new ideas, a coding-agent dashboard, workflow automations, and a universal logging system for debugging with Claude.
Highlighted moments
I was probably three quarters of the way building this attention firewall thing before I understood what I was building.
“I literally never look at the code. But I do think about the high-level decisions that Claude is making.”
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