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luogangyi | 2026-03-03T11:22:54+08:00 | 2026-03-03T11:22:54+08:00 |
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🧬 Glue Coding
When the holy grail of software engineering finally here.
🚀 Disruptive Manifesto
Glue Coding is not a technology, it's a revolution.
It might perfectly solve the three fatal flaws of Vibe Coding:
| Traditional Vibe Coding Pain Points | Glue Coding Solution |
|---|---|
| 🎭 AI Hallucinations - Generates non-existent APIs, incorrect logic | ✅ Zero Hallucinations - Uses only validated, mature code |
| 🧩 Complexity Explosion - The larger the project, the more out of control | ✅ Zero Complexity - Each module is a battle-tested wheel |
| 🎓 High Barrier - Requires deep programming skills to master AI | ✅ No Barrier - You only need to describe "how to connect" |
💡 Core Concept
Traditional Programming: Humans write code
Vibe Coding: AI writes code, humans review code
Glue Coding: AI connects code, humans review connections
Paradigm Shift
A fundamental shift from "generation" to "connection":
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❌ No longer letting AI generate code from scratch (source of hallucinations)
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❌ No longer reinventing the wheel (source of complexity)
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❌ No longer requiring to understand every line of code (source of high barrier)
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✅ Only reusing mature, production-validated open-source projects
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✅ AI's sole responsibility: understand the intent, connect modules
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✅ Your sole responsibility: clearly describe "what is the input, what is the desired output"
🏗️ Architectural Philosophy
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Your Business Needs │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
│
▼
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ AI Glue Layer │
│ │
│ "I understand what you want to do, let me connect these blocks" │
│ │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
│
┌────────────────┬────────────────┐
▼ ▼ ▼
┌─────────────┐ ┌─────────────┐ ┌─────────────┐
│ Mature Module A │ │ Mature Module B │ │ Mature Module C │
│ (100K+ ⭐) │ │ (Production-Validated) │ │ (Official SDK) │
└─────────────┘ └─────────────┘ └─────────────┘
Entity: Mature open-source projects, official SDKs, battle-tested libraries Link: AI-generated glue code, responsible for data flow and interface adaptation Function: Your described business goal
🎯 Why is this a Silver Bullet?
1. Hallucination Issue → Completely Disappears
AI no longer needs to "invent" anything. It only needs to:
- Read Module A's documentation
- Read Module B's documentation
- Write the data transformation from A → B
This is what AI excels at, and what is least prone to errors.
2. Complexity Issue → Transferred to the Community
Behind each module are:
- Discussions from thousands of Issues
- Wisdom from hundreds of contributors
- Years of production environment refinement
You are not managing complexity; you are standing on the shoulders of giants.
3. Barrier Issue → Reduced to a Minimum
You don't need to understand:
- Underlying implementation principles
- Best practice details
- Edge case handling
You only need to speak plain language:
"I want to take messages from Telegram, process them with GPT, and store them in PostgreSQL"
AI will help you find the most suitable wheels and glue them together.
📋 Practice Flow
1. Define the Goal
└─→ "I want to implement XXX functionality"
2. Find the Wheels
└─→ "Are there any mature libraries/projects that have done something similar?"
└─→ Let AI help you search, evaluate, and recommend
3. Understand the Interfaces
└─→ Feed the official documentation to AI
└─→ AI summarizes: what is the input, what is the output
4. Describe the Connection
└─→ "The output of A should become the input of B"
└─→ AI generates glue code
5. Validate and Run
└─→ Runs successfully → Done
└─→ Errors → Give the errors to AI, continue gluing
🔥 Classic Case Study
Case: Polymarket Data Analysis Bot
Requirement: Real-time acquisition of Polymarket data, analysis, and push to Telegram
Traditional Approach: Write a crawler, analysis logic, and bot from scratch → 3000 lines of code, 2 weeks
Glue Approach:
Wheel 1: polymarket-py (Official SDK)
Wheel 2: pandas (Data Analysis)
Wheel 3: python-telegram-bot (Message Push)
Glue Code: 50 lines
Development Time: 2 hours
📚 Further Reading
- 语言层要素 - 8 levels to master to understand 100% of the code
- 胶水开发 - Prompts for glue development
- polymarket-dev - Project practice
- cli-is-all-you-need - CLI 作为胶水层：Bash is the ultimate MCP
🖖 Summary
If you can copy, don't write. If you can connect, don't build. If you can reuse, don't originate.
Glue Coding is the ultimate evolution of Vibe Coding.
It's not laziness; it's the highest embodiment of engineering wisdom —
Leveraging maximum productivity with minimal original code.
This is the silver bullet software engineering has been waiting for for 50 years.
"The best code is no code at all. The second best is glue code."