They’re not looking to make billions, but they’re still having fun building with AI.<\/p>\n
Conversations about AI these days have high stakes: valuations in the trillions, job cuts in the thousands. For vibe coders, or non-coders using AI programs to create apps, it’s often small potatoes. And that’s not a bad thing.<\/p>\n
BI’s Juliana Kaplan has a fun piece about these “normies” using AI to plan wedding seat charts or decide the best day to wash their hair<\/a>. Juliana even gave it a shot, vibe coding an app to help her decide whether it was worth trekking up a hill to a local grocery store for specific deals.<\/p>\n Vibe coding isn’t just about getting quick fixes to specific problems. As Juliana notes, it also gets you to think critically.<\/p>\n While a lot of AI is about outsourcing skills you risk eroding<\/a>, vibe coding helps people pick up new ones. They learn how to build, tweak, and launch tools they could only have dreamed of previously.<\/p>\n Some see vibe coding as another attempt to force the tech down our throats.<\/p>\n On our landing page for our “Vibe Code Your Life” series<\/a>, a comment stood out to me:<\/p>\n “Ah..the not so subtle nudge to find an opening that will drive more AI adoption cuz these folks need to earn back their trillions invested.”<\/p>\n AI backlash is growing louder<\/a>, and for legitimate reasons. Money is being spent, and jobs are disappearing without a clear ROI on the tech<\/a>.<\/p>\n That’s the beauty of vibe coding. These aren’t billion-dollar projects that someone hopes will one day pan out; they’re making an impact for their creators right away.<\/p>\n It’s a firefighter building an app to shop for groceries more efficiently<\/a>. An entrepreneur using AI to organize the construction of his forever home<\/a>. A new mom who wanted simple answers about which solids she should feed her baby every day<\/a>. A dad who needed a way to find short-term nannies for one-off gigs<\/a>.<\/p>\n It’s a newsletter writer who wants to know the best color and inseam for his shorts depending on the weather. (Just kidding \u2026 or am I?)<\/p>\n These apps won’t be the next OpenAI or Anthropic \u2014 don’t sleep on Sky’s out, thighs out \u2014 but that’s not the point.<\/p>\n While Corporate America scrambles to justify its AI bets, vibe coders are already getting returns on theirs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They’re not looking to make billions, but they’re still having fun building with AI. Conversations about AI these…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,11357,181,507,47440,296087,296090,296086,53741,296088,271,562,296091,172,74,97171,50008,296089],"class_list":["post-679380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-app","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-conversation","tag-day-user","tag-high-stake","tag-inventive-vibe-coding","tag-job-cut","tag-juliana-kaplan","tag-life","tag-series","tag-specific-deal","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-trillion","tag-valuation","tag-vibe-coder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}