Luke Rohde

Luke Rohde

Delivery lead, tech generalist, aspirational inventor. Bringing great people together to build great software — mostly in the not-for-profit sector, hoping to make the world a smidge better. Based in Melbourne.

Writing

  1. AI Is a Bridge

    AI won't make work less laborious. We'll just do more. The question is whether we do it for each other.

  2. Vibe Coding in 2025

    How to sustainably write 1000+ lines of tested code per day with an AI copilot — without burning credits or losing your mind.

  3. Engineer-Led

    The smartest person in the room is often the bottleneck. That was me, and it took burning out to see it.

  4. A Plan Is A Guess

    Like a weather forecast, hold your plan loosely and reforecast often.

Recent Personal Projects

  • Earsight new

    A creative experiment to see how capable Claude is. Over 15 years ago I saw this video about vOIc — Seeing with Sound and wanted to make a better version. My computer didn’t have enough grunt — but now it can run from a webpage.

  • Practice Japanese hands-free. Converse with AI — it assesses your fluency and silently advances your review queue while you walk.

  • AI meal planner. Edit recipes by voice or free text and it builds your grocery list.

  • Chicken Water Cannon

    TODO — add your description here.

  • Lunar lander meets pizza delivery — fly efficiently enough to cover fuel and repairs from your pizza sales, or you’re grounded. While learning Unity to help my daughters with their game, I remade a DirectX game I built in the early 2000s. I discovered Google Gemini is a lot better than ChatGPT at giving clickOps instructions, presumably because it’s trained on YouTube.