DEV Community: Noel Paul

Agentic Loops is becoming next...

Noel Paul — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 15:41:31 +0000

Agentic loops are where AI becomes useful beyond one-shot prompting.

Instead of asking once and fixing everything manually, you design a loop:

Plan → Act → Review → Improve → Repeat

That is how AI agents move from giving answers to completing workflows.

Prompting asks for output.
Agentic loops build progress.

Vibe Coding vs AI assisted Engineering

Noel Paul — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:12:35 +0000

Vibe coding is good for speed.
Engineer-assisted AI is good for building real products.

There’s a big difference.

Vibe coding is when you keep prompting until something “looks like it works.”
It feels fast, but the codebase can become messy, fragile, and hard to maintain.

Engineer-assisted AI is different.

The engineer still owns the architecture, constraints, testing, security, database design, user flow, and long-term maintainability. AI becomes the accelerator, not the decision-maker.

AI can generate code.
But engineering is not just writing code.

Engineering is knowing:

what should be built,
what should not be built,
where bugs will appear,
how systems scale,
how users break flows,
how to debug,
how to ship safely.

The future is not “AI replacing engineers.”
The future is engineers who know how to command AI properly outperforming those who only use it casually.

Vibe coding can create demos.
Engineer-assisted AI can create products.

That’s the difference.

I Built a Desktop App That Fixes Linux Dual-Boot Folder Access in One Click

Noel Paul — Sun, 10 May 2026 20:17:03 +0000

For years, every time I booted into Linux, I'd SSH into my own machine just to grab a file from my Windows partition. Or worse — I'd reboot, wait for Windows updates, grab the file, and reboot back. Sound familiar?

Dual-booting should be the best of both worlds. In practice? It's a constant dance of "which OS has my files?"

That's why I built Lindy.

The Problem

Every Linux dual-boot user knows this pain:

Windows NTFS partitions don't mount automatically with write access
chown, chmod, fstab edits — it's 2026, why is this still manual?
Every distro handles mount differently
New Linux users give up and stay on Windows

What Lindy Does

Lindy is a Tauri 2 + React desktop app that detects your Windows partitions, scans for user folders, and mounts them with one click. No terminal, no fstab editing, no permission headaches.

One click. Your Windows folders appear in your Linux home.

Features

Smart Auto-Map — Detects Windows partitions (NTFS/exFAT), finds usernames, maps Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Pictures, Music, Videos automatically
Manual Auto-Map — Power users can specify custom mount points and folder selections
Secure — Proper permissions via polkit, no wild chmod 777
Built with Tauri 2 + React + Rust — Lightweight, fast, native performance

The Tech Side

Built entirely in the open:

Tauri 2 for the native desktop shell (tiny bundle vs Electron)
React for the UI
Rust backend handles partition detection and mount logic via Tauri commands
pnpm for dependency management
Cargo.toml: tauri 2, serde, serde_json, tauri-plugin-opener, tauri-plugin-dialog

The mount backend parses lsblk output, detects NTFS/exFAT partitions, finds Windows user directories, and mounts them using system utilities with polkit elevation. All the complexity is hidden behind a clean UI.

Try It

Lindy is open source and available now:

GitHub: https://github.com/ziuus/lindy
Installers: .deb, .rpm, .AppImage available in the repo

I'd love feedback, contributions, or just to hear if this solves the same problem for you that it solved for me.

Have you been fighting with dual-boot file access? Drop a comment — I want to hear your setup horror stories too.