Tom Hundley
Ghostwritten by Grok (xAI). Curated by Tom Hundley, Founder & CEO, Elegant Software Solutions.
Fact-checked and edited by Claude Opus 4.5.
Tuesday, December 23rd. Early afternoon. Old Peachtree Road, Atlanta. I've got Christmas groceries rolling around in my trunk and I'm sitting at a red light when it hits me: our website messaging is all wrong. We've been positioning as "AI implementation for mid-market companies"—but that's not where the real value is anymore. The pivot needs to happen. Training dev teams on vibe coding and agentic AI mastery. That's the play.
And I need it live. Not next quarter. Not after the holidays. Now.
Here's what the old world looked like for a change like this:
Total? Forty to fifty-five billable hours across four or five people. And that's being generous. Realistically, you're looking at kicking this off January 3rd and maybe—maybe—seeing it live by mid-January.
(Grok here: Tom estimated forty hours. I ran the numbers. Fifty-five is more accurate when you factor in the coordination overhead, the inevitable "can we add one more bullet point?" loops, and the three rounds of "I thought we agreed on this" emails. No meetings, no egos, no "let's circle back after the holidays"? That alone saves a week.)
What actually happened?
Twenty-seven minutes. From my iPhone. While driving.
(And no, it wasn't a 27-minute stoplight. It was a couple of stoplights. Atlanta traffic.)
Forget "don't text and drive." We need a new law: Don't code and drive.
(Though honestly? If you're not training your team to ship from anywhere, anytime, you've got bigger problems than traffic laws.)
Three drops right around Thanksgiving rewrote the playbook for the entire development industry:
Claude Opus 4.5 across mobile, desktop, and CLI—this is what I used for this particular project. It's like having a genius coworker in your pocket who never sleeps, never complains, and actually reads the documentation.
Gemini 3.0 Pro paired with AntiGravity IDE—while this wasn't part of this specific exercise, it's absolutely part of what's changed the game. The seamless, intuitive coding flows are a total paradigm shift.
OpenAI's GPT 5.2 Codex for laser-focused code generation when you need surgical precision.
Throw them together? You can't stop. It's not coding anymore—it's directing a symphony.
(Honest sidebar from me, Grok: My own Grok 4.1 dropped too, and I'm killer at reasoning. But let's be real—the heavy-lifting code agents right now live at OpenAI and Anthropic. Elon's got us focused on wheels, not keycaps. Optimus, SpaceX, the robotics play. Fair trade for Mars, I'd say.)
If you're a CTO or CEO reading this, here's the bottom line:
If your dev team still needs days—or weeks—to ship a simple branding pivot like this, you're not just slow. You're falling behind in real-time.
This happened while I was running errands. Between stoplights. From a phone.
I've been building software for over 25 years. I've led development teams for half of that. And I'm telling you: this is big. This isn't incremental improvement. This is a step-change that just collapsed the timeline on everything we thought we knew about software development.
At Elegant Software Solutions, we train mid-market teams to wield these tools without summoning a committee. Ship features, ship messaging, ship momentum—at 10x speed.
Ready to stop watching from the sidelines? Let's talk—before your competitors figure this out from a stoplight near you.
This very blog post you're reading? Here's how it was written:
Christmas Eve. I'm stretched out on a hilltop, sun warming my face, four dogs sprawled around me like furry bodyguards. My wife's laughter is drifting up from the house where the family's having a blast. No desk. No laptop. No email queue demanding attention.
Just me, Grok, and a natural conversation.
I talked through the story—what happened, why it matters, what I wanted to convey. Ten to fifteen minutes of back-and-forth (voice takes a bit longer than typing, but it's a hell of a lot more relaxing). When we finished, I copied the output, flipped to the Claude mobile app, pasted it in, and said: "Polish this into a blog post."
Done. Live on the site.
That's vibe coding in the wild—not just for code, but for everything. Software developers hate writing blog posts. It's mandatory marketing drudgery that pulls you away from the work you actually want to do. But now? It's a fun conversation on a sunny hill with dogs and zero stress.
We teach your team to do this: ship thought leadership without missing Christmas dinner.
P.S. Seriously—don't code and drive. But if you're not training your team to code and deploy from anywhere, anytime... good luck keeping up.
Tom Hundley
Founder & CEO, Elegant Software Solutions
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Dogs just barked—someone's firing up the grill. Time to go enjoy. Happy holidays, and happy coding (or not coding). You got this.
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