Now you can just build things

Previously, it took whole companies, project managers, meetings, and lots of capital to build real-world apps and websites at scale.

Not anymore.

Now, with tools like Claude Code and Kilo Code, a single dev can do it in hours or days.

I think this is an exciting time to live. Now we can bring ideas to life for the fun of it without any certainty they will be profitable.

What’s the risk? A few hours of my time, and then deciding it’s not worth it? Or perhaps learning something?

I guess that also depends on how you approach vibecoding - focusing on high-level concepts and getting an LLM to write the code for you.

I have been coding the old-school way since before LLM-assisted coding was a thing, so I always enjoy looking through the generated code and learning from it: patterns and techniques, libraries used, etc. I love learning from vibecoded code bases.

I saw a tweet today by a well-known dev claiming he’s always able to write code better than LLMs do.

It made me smile.

I personally do not consider myself so good at coding that I have nothing to learn from AI. I will never be able to process the quantity of data these models are trained on.

And the fact I can just extract the parts that are useful to me via skillful prompting is amazing.

My chosen disposition to have when someone asks me to build something difficult but interesting is “let me try.”

After all, AI is here to change the game.

Some fear it will take their job, but I just think it will be making mine more fun and more interesting.

Whatever you have in mind, those one-day-maybe projects.

Now, you can just build them…