I’ve been thinking more people will watch a video than read a long article. Maybe I’m wrong. I wrote “Coding the Vibes,” an article about my personal experience using AI to create different design tools, a while ago, but I hesitated to post it as text, so here’s a small video experiment.
The term “vibe coding” has been popping up in my feed for almost a year now in social media, podcasts I listen to, and even chats with friends. Most of what I saw looked pretty bad, so I assumed you couldn’t do anything decent with it. Sure, you can make something run from scratch, but it all looked like a train wreck.
Only after I saw two or three good-looking, working apps made by people I know did I decide to try it. This is not a tutorial. It is a personal story about using AI to write code for tools I want as a designer, plus a few things I wish someone had shown me earlier. After I posted my results, a bunch of designers I know started testing things too. Maybe this nudges a few more.
I have also uploaded this video on YouTube if that is more convenient.
