You down with A.P.P.?
I just had a 90’s ear-worm attack and I’m tapping and humming to Naughty by Nature…And yes, nostalgia is what it is.
And given where my head’s at, the lyrics transformed a bit…
I just started thinking “you down with A.P.P.?”
No not App, the acronym. I’m talking about AI Paired Programming.
Vibe design, product and coding is the absence of reading and reviewing the output directly.
Yep. Sad but true — that’s where my head went.
Intro
Yo, devs in the zone, keyboards lit up in neon, Let’s splice some silicon—time to bring the bots along.
Hook / Chorus
You down with A-P-P? (Yeah, you know me!) You down with A-P-P? (Stack Trace set free!) You down with A-P-P? (Every dev, let’s see!) All the coders wanna roll with A-P-P!
Verse 1
Step into the repo and the linter starts to sing, Model on my shoulder like a second-brain wing. Prompt it with a ticket—watch the diff explode, Unit tests passin’ like a green-light road. Merge conflicts vanish, auto-fix in sight, Shipping on a Friday? Yeah, we still sleep tight. Pairing with a photon, syntax on blast, Humans plus the silicon—future moves fast.
Pre-Chorus
No ego in the loop, just a dance with the code, From docstrings to deploy it’s a friction-free road. If you’re stuck in the past with that solo IDE, Hit commit and come rock A-P-P with me!
Hook / Chorus
You down with A-P-P? (Yeah, you know me!) You down with A-P-P? (Latency’s key!) You down with A-P-P? (Refactor spree!) All the hackers gettin’ bold with A-P-P!
Verse 2
Prompt-craft wizard, bringing context and heat, Model fills the boilerplate, I finesse the beat. Scope creep lurking? We just vector-search it, Sprint ends early, product team merchin’. Stand-ups tighter, backlog lighter, Ship like lightning, logs read righter. We ain’t scared of the bots, we invite ‘em inside— Humans + machines, watch productivity glide.
Bridge
Auto-complete the dream, Pair-program supreme, Push to prod, no scream— It’s an APP team.
Hook / Chorus (double-time)
You down with A-P-P? (Yeah, you know me!) You down with A-P-P? (Zero bugs, carefree!) You down with A-P-P? (Future’s foresee-able!) Everybody rollin’ deep with A-P-P!