"Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and other tech CEOs are encouraging novices to try vibe coding - using AI to generate code with natural language prompts and refining it through a conversation. I decided to try to create something useful for myself despite having zero coding experience. This project ended up taking many twists and turns and took half a day to complete, but I learned some very valuable lessons on how LLMs work and why there is a learning curve to understanding how to use AI."
"For this project, my goal was to create a single webpage where I could view people's posts without needing to log in to a platform or visit individual feeds. To start, I wanted the page to have three columns, each representing President Donald Trump, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and for the columns to automatically update every time they post something new."
A journalist with zero coding experience attempted vibe coding to automate the least enjoyable work task: monitoring social-media posts from about a dozen tech CEOs. The goal was a single webpage with three automatically updating columns for Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Sam Altman. The first attempt involved step-by-step code generation from ChatGPT, setup guidance, and a long code string, but it failed when launching locally. The project took half a day, included many twists, and taught lessons about LLM behavior and the learning curve required for effective AI prompting and task decomposition.
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