<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Bryce DeCora — Writing</title><description>Co-founder and CEO of CloseBot. Former Boeing engineer who taught himself to code and now builds AI that handles sales conversations.</description><link>https://brycedecora.com/</link><language>en-us</language><atom:link href="https://brycedecora.com/rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><lastBuildDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title>Is Vibe Coding Bad? I Wrote 150,000 Lines in a Weekend. My Dev Kept 17,000.</title><link>https://brycedecora.com/writing/is-vibe-coding-bad/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://brycedecora.com/writing/is-vibe-coding-bad/</guid><description>I vibe coded 150,000 lines in one weekend. My senior developer kept 17,000. Here&apos;s what that taught me about when vibe coding is bad and when it&apos;s great.</description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>limitations</category><category>operations</category></item><item><title>Top 3 AI Softwares I Use Daily</title><link>https://brycedecora.com/writing/top-3-ai-softwares-i-use-daily/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://brycedecora.com/writing/top-3-ai-softwares-i-use-daily/</guid><description>The three AI tools I pay for and use every day to run CloseBot — an AI appointment setter, Claude Code, and ChatGPT — and what each one costs.</description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>product</category></item><item><title>When an AI appointment setter is the wrong tool</title><link>https://brycedecora.com/writing/when-an-ai-appointment-setter-is-the-wrong-tool/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://brycedecora.com/writing/when-an-ai-appointment-setter-is-the-wrong-tool/</guid><description>AI setters are very good at a narrow job and bad at several adjacent ones. Here is where they fail, from someone who sells them.</description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>limitations</category><category>operations</category></item><item><title>Why we decided to start offering done for you ai at CloseBot</title><link>https://brycedecora.com/writing/why-we-build-the-agent-for-you-instead-of-a-better-builder/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://brycedecora.com/writing/why-we-build-the-agent-for-you-instead-of-a-better-builder/</guid><description>The hard part of an AI setter is not the model. It is the hundred configuration decisions around it, and a nicer editor does not make those easier.</description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>product</category><category>operations</category></item></channel></rss>