Our vibe coded projects that actually work

Hello, and welcome to the Vergecast, flagship podcast of the Vercel REST API. I'm your friend David Pierce, and today on the show, we have a challenge. The way this is gonna work, we're gonna we're gonna do a bunch of these in a row, but the way this is gonna work is we've gathered a bunch of people. We're going to give them all a challenge, and then we are going to go off for several weeks and report back on what we found. Today, we are starting with two of my colleagues, Jake Kastronakis and Hayden Field, and we are going to do a vibe coding challenge. The first thing we're gonna do is kind of lay the land, talk about where we all are in our vibe coding experiences, and then we're gonna all go see who can do the best in vibe coding. It's a lot of fun. I'm very excited about this project in part because it's gonna get me to, like, actually get some work done for a change for the podcast. It's gonna be awesome. But first, here's everything else happening on The Verge today. This is ninety seconds on The Verge for Monday, 06/29/2026. Mythos is back, kind of. The anthropic model that was once deemed too dangerous to to release publicly and actually threw even more chaos into the already chaotic relationship between anthropic and the US government is now being released to a Trump administration approved list of organizations. Who those organizations are, who they will be, whether you'll ever get to use Fable five again, hard to say. Nobody seems to quite understand the AI regulatory environment right now. And given that the Supreme Court also ruled today that President Trump has the authority to fire two FCC commissioners, which changes the way that agencies work, whatever happens here, it will start with the White House. Meanwhile, Comcast is splitting into two companies. In the latest of a seemingly endless supply of media mergers and unmergers, now there will be Comcast, the Internet cable and mobile carrier, and there will be NBC Universal, which is the studios, theme parks, and streaming networks, including Peacock. None of this, by the way, applies to Versant, which Comcast spun off in 2024. The media business just continues to be chaos. And a fun side note of this, by the way, is that I have a new disclosure to do here. I guess it's gonna be something like Comcast is an investor in PMX, the parent company of The Verge. I'm gonna have to get used to that one. And finally, quick PSA for you. WhatsApp is rolling out username support later this year so that you can find people and be be found without having to share phone numbers. The feature's not live yet, but you might be able to go to settings, account, username, and reserve yours. There are, like, 3,000,000,000 people on WhatsApp, so you should probably move fast. You …