The article discusses the author's ambition to create a simple note-taking app and the barriers posed by programming knowledge. However, the emergence of AI-infused tools, particularly Replit's Agent, allows users to interact with an AI to build apps without deep coding skills. The author shares their experience of developing 'Doolee', a notes app, in just a week, highlighting the addictive nature of the process and the satisfying result that runs smoothly across multiple devices. This advancement marks a significant shift in software development accessibility.
Using a Replit feature called Agent, I put together my dream notes app in a week, finding the process so addictive that I often tinkered into the wee hours.
A new wave of AI-infused tools has enabled a phenomenon that OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy has dubbed vibecoding, where you can collaborate with AI to build software.
I saw the project as an adventure in software development that could only make me a smarter technology user, despite my limited coding experience.
The web-based result runs on my iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and doesn't feel much different than a native-app version might have.
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