Bonfires + a vibe-coding masterclass

A live ZABAL Gamez fireside between Zaal and Carlos (Plat0x, the Bonfires developer). Half working-session - the Bonfires rewrite (deadline June 14), ZAO's second Bonfire agent, auto-pushing context to the Bonfire on every git commit, and the positioning of Bonfires as a 'sense-making tool' where the agent is the librarian of a library - and half vibe-coding masterclass for the builder track: plan-then-goal with a measurable threshold, Bob-and-Alice diagramming before code, types-first prompting with a protocol/adapter contract, documentation-as-code, the Linus Torvalds compiler analogy, and Carlos's three skills (plan-making, sub-agents, adversarial agents).

• Plan-then-goal: give Claude a plan plus one goal with a measurable threshold (e.g. under 5s query latency) so it runs until it hits the number.
• Diagram Bob and Alice before any code - define the exchange and the sequence first, language last.
• Prompt types-first ('define types in Python for an app that does X') and use a protocol/adapter contract so you can swap the database later without a rewrite.
• Documentation-as-code: remove all the code and the docs alone should reproduce it 1:1.
• Carlos's three skills: plan-making (built from papers), sub-agents (the senior-dev orchestrator), and adversarial agents (one for, one against).