I’m not a developer! I’ve never coded anything in my life. As far as I’m concerned, a Cloudtop is what you see outside an airplane window. Python is a snake.
But I’ve got a can-do attitude, so I decided to tackle vibe coding. Not because these new, futuristic development tools have democratized access to software design, and opened the door to a whole new cohort to design and deploy custom-made tools: that’s cool, but it had always felt cool in an abstract way. Developers are always doing cool stuff that has nothing to do with me.
I decided to start vibe coding because I hate making calendar invitations out of travel itineraries.
It’s boring, and time consuming, and if you don’t get all of the details right, your boss could end up stranded in Hong Kong. I have to do it nearly every week. I was staring down a multi-leg, multi-country trip, with multiple hotels and half a dozen different time zones, and as I was mentally cataloguing all of the things I’d rather do than put this stuff on calendar, a new line item popped up:
- Vibe code an app to do it for me?
In this video, I take you through my process of vibe coding for the very first time. My prompts were bad, AI Studio’s output was initially VERY confused, but in spite of my total lack of experience, I had a working app in under two hours! Join me for six minutes if you’d like to see me get there.
