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They’re not looking to make billions, but they’re still having fun building with AI.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read more Read the pitch decks of 17 startups looking to disrupt dating apps and social networking that have raised millions<\/a><\/p>\n

Conversations about AI these days have high stakes: valuations in the trillions, job cuts in the thousands. For vibe coders, or non-coders using AI programs to create apps, it’s often small potatoes. And that’s not a bad thing.<\/p>\n

BI’s Juliana Kaplan has a fun piece about these “normies” using AI to plan wedding seat charts or decide the best day to wash their hair. Juliana even gave it a shot, vibe coding an app to help her decide whether it was worth trekking up a hill to a local grocery store for specific deals.<\/p>\n

Vibe coding isn’t just about getting quick fixes to specific problems. As Juliana notes, it also gets you to think critically.<\/p>\n

While a lot of AI is about outsourcing skills you risk eroding, vibe coding helps people pick up new ones. They learn how to build, tweak, and launch tools they could only have dreamed of previously.<\/p>\n

Some see vibe coding as another attempt to force the tech down our throats.<\/strong><\/p>\n

On our landing page for our “Vibe Code Your Life” series, a comment stood out to me:<\/p>\n

“Ah..the not so subtle nudge to find an opening that will drive more AI adoption cuz these folks need to earn back their trillions invested.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Read more \u2018Compute is profit\u2019: 3 big takeaways from Jensen Huang\u2019s keynote in Taiwan<\/a><\/p>\n

AI backlash is growing louder, and for legitimate reasons. Money is being spent, and jobs are disappearing without a clear ROI on the tech.<\/p>\n

That’s the beauty of vibe coding. These aren’t billion-dollar projects that someone hopes<\/em> will one day pan out; they’re making an impact for their creators right away.<\/p>\n

It’s a firefighter building an app to shop for groceries more efficiently. An entrepreneur using AI to organize the construction of his forever home. A new mom who wanted simple answers about which solids she should feed her baby every day. A dad who needed a way to find short-term nannies for one-off gigs.<\/p>\n

It’s a newsletter writer who wants to know the best color and inseam for his shorts depending on the weather. (Just kidding \u2026 or am I?)<\/p>\n

These apps won’t be the next OpenAI or Anthropic \u2014 don’t sleep on Sky’s out, thighs out<\/em> \u2014 but that’s not the point.<\/p>\n

While Corporate America scrambles to justify its AI bets, vibe coders are already getting returns on theirs.<\/p>\n

Read more \u2018Big Short\u2019 investor Michael Burry says neither SpaceX nor Anthropic is worth $1 trillion<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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