The Quickest Path to a Diff · The app died at Red Rocks while its health checks stayed green. Every line of code was fine. The sum was nobody's job.

Zabriskie is a social app I’m building around music, films, books, art, and the people who care about them. Its center of gravity is live music, specifically the jam band world I’m part of. In that world no two shows get the same setlist, so the crowd spends the night asking the same questions: what song is this, what have they played so far, who else is here. Zabriskie answers them while the show is happening. The setlist updates song by song as the band plays, the people in the crowd and the people watching the stream from home share one chat, and the current song sits on your lock screen and your watch so checking it doesn’t mean opening the app. The home page is called the Lot, after the parking-lot scene at these shows, and when one of your bands is on stage somewhere, it opens on that show. I build it entirely through vibe coding: I describe what I want and evaluate the result in the browser, but I don’t read the implementation code. Coding agents write everything, the…