At the July 14 VibeCoding meetup, Colin Harman â former CTO of Nesh and founder of Snowfort.ai â brought a sharp lens to the new reality of software development: weâre no longer just writing code, weâre orchestrating AI workflows.
Colin introduced a concept he uses to measure AI collaboration:
"Turns per task."
The fewer turns it takes to get useful output from your AI agent, the better your prompting, context, and process.
âIf Iâm doing a good job, Iâll get what I need in one turn. If not, Iâm up at 3AM arguing with a model.â
With up to eight projects running in parallel, Colin realized the real bottleneck wasnât in writing code â it was in:
Preparing tasks for AI
Monitoring output across contexts
Testing and closing the loop
Avoiding passive distraction while waiting
So he built Snowfort, a lightweight task orchestration wrapper that:
Notifies you when AI tasks complete
Works across mobile and desktop
Helps track turn quality
Supports fast context switching with CLI + tmux support
Colin emphasized that as more developers juggle AI-assisted projects, weâll need tools that match our new mental models:
Not IDEs built for manual typing
But systems that support prompting, feedback, task management, and iteration
âWe need tools that help us manage AI â not just use it.â
Check out Snowfort.ai to try the tool or send feedback. You can also follow his technical writing on Substack at colinharman.substack.com.
Next up in our VibeCoding Speaker Series: Ramon Williams, CEO of Faire Rideshare and founder of The AI Standarrd.
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