I Need Coffee - Episode 196 - Weekly BC Review! (january 9, 2026)

1. Clawdbot / CLAWD explosion  
   - Viral open-source personal AI assistant (“space lobster”, pun on Claude → CLAWD)  
   - Exploded in days → thousands in Discord, huge community excitement  
   - Runs locally (even on old ThinkCentre tiny PC or Raspberry Pi), connects to WhatsApp/Telegram/Discord/email/calendar/Amazon/etc.  
   - Described as “what we wish Siri was” — real action-taking agent  
   - Some chaos when updating (flooded WhatsApp with thousands of messages)

2. Vibe coding / AI-agentic development experiences 
   - Heavy use of AI (Claude, Copilot, Cursor) to generate AL code, PTEs, tests, docs  
   - Very fast prototyping → but extremely weird, unintuitive bugs (counting log lines instead of invoices, conflating headers/lines/logs)  
   - Testing vibe-coded apps is a completely different skill — no rational assumptions possible  
   - Huge productivity gain once you accept looping “fix your bugs” cycles  
   - Copilot sometimes breaks known-good obscure AL patterns (while Claude/Cursor handle them fine)

3. Business Central development & AppSource reality 
   - Struggles with registration/licensing system (self-built after bad experiences with third-party providers) → geo-redundancy, heartbeats, failover  
   - Mysterious production-only issues debugged with in-client Performance Profiler → traced to Microsoft Subscription Billing app blocking field changes  
   - Very close to finishing major AppSource app release (classic “halfway to the finish line” feeling)  
   - Adding visible version info directly on pages for easier support

4. Challenges with rapid AI iteration & bleeding-edge risks 
   - Claudebot project architecture changed multiple times in days → update broke things badly  
   - Accidental high-volume spam to contacts during bug  
   - Senior developer quits team when shown agentic coding (sees only bugs, not fix speed)

5. Tools & productivity workflow observations
   - Pandoc + Markdown Monster for AI-generated documentation → Markdown → Word/PDF pipeline  
   - GitHub Copilot now doing git staging/commit/push/PR creation  
   - Upcoming VS Code improvements (agent skills, centralized chat sessions/archive)

6. Security & cyber news highlights 
   - IP-based KVM devices extremely insecure (backdoors to critical systems)  
   - Tailscale config auditor (Tail Snitch) — found outdated nodes  
   - Massive alleged leaks (1.2B Chinese citizen records)  
   - n8n CVE-10.0 full host compromise vulnerability (~100k exposed servers)

7. Business / operations notes
   - Need better contract lifecycle management (considering PandaDoc) after clause dispute  
   - Upcoming talks: nearshore consulting setup, avoiding million-dollar lawsuits, modern SaaS support models

8. Light / humorous recurring motifs 
   - “Crustacean power” / lobster memes  
   - “It works fine in dev”  
   - Drive failures (Steve is “the luckiest administrator in the world”)  
   - “Vibe coding warning”