🧬 Glue Coding

The Holy Grail and Silver Bullet 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:

Pain Points of Traditional Vibe Coding	Solutions of Glue Coding
🎭 AI Hallucinations - Generating non-existent APIs, incorrect logic	✅ Zero Hallucinations - Only uses verified mature code
🧩 Complexity Explosion - The larger the project, the more out of control	✅ Zero Complexity - Every module is a time-tested wheel
🎓 High Barrier to Entry - Requires deep programming skills to master AI	✅ Barrier Disappears - 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":

❌ No longer letting AI generate code from scratch (the source of hallucinations)
❌ No longer reinventing the wheel (the source of complexity)
❌ No longer requiring you to understand every line of code (the source of high barrier)
✅ Only reusing mature, production-verified open-source projects
✅ AI's sole responsibility: understanding your intent and connecting modules
✅ Your sole responsibility: clearly describing "what is the input, what is the desired output"

🏗️ Architectural Philosophy

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                    Your Business Requirements           │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
                           │
                           ▼
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                   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 Verified)  │  │  (Official SDK)  │
   └─────────────┘  └─────────────┘  └─────────────┘

Entity: Mature open-source projects, official SDKs, time-tested libraries Link: AI-generated glue code, responsible for data flow and interface adaptation Function: Your described business goals

🎯 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 to B

This is what AI excels at, and where it is least likely to make mistakes.

2. Complexity Issue → Transferred to the Community

Behind each module are:

Thousands of Issue discussions
Wisdom of hundreds of contributors
Years of refinement in production environments

You are not managing complexity; you are standing on the shoulders of giants.

3. Barrier to Entry Issue → Minimized

You don't need to understand:

Underlying implementation principles
Details of best practices
Handling of edge cases

You just need to speak plainly:

"I want to take Telegram messages, process them with GPT, and save them to PostgreSQL"

AI will help you find the most suitable wheels and then glue them together.

📋 Practical Process

1. Clarify Goal
   └─→ "I want to implement XXX functionality"

2. Find Wheels
   └─→ "Are there mature libraries/projects that have done something similar?"
   └─→ Let AI help you search, evaluate, and recommend

3. Understand Interfaces
   └─→ Feed official documentation to AI
   └─→ AI summarizes: what is the input, what is the output

4. Describe Connection
   └─→ "Output of A should become input of B"
   └─→ AI generates glue code

5. Verify Operation
   └─→ Runs successfully → Done
   └─→ Errors → Throw errors to AI, continue gluing

🔥 Classic Case Study

Case Study: Polymarket Data Analysis Bot

Requirement: Get real-time Polymarket data, analyze it, and push to Telegram

Traditional Approach: Write scraper from scratch, write analysis logic, write Bot → 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

🎖️ 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 evolutionary form of Vibe Coding.

It's not laziness; it's the highest embodiment of engineering wisdom—

Leveraging the least amount of original code to drive the greatest productivity.

This is the silver bullet software engineering has been waiting 50 years for.

"The best code is no code at all. The second best is glue code."

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