Vibe coding means more passionate coders
My friend gave me a call yesterday telling me about a website he had built just with AI coding tools. With no coding experience, he found himself so deeply immersed and excited about web development that he forgot to eat that day.
I was shocked to hear him use words like:
deployment
V0/vercel
modal
stripe payment integration
headless shopify
github
These are technologies web developers use everyday and take for granted, but to hear it come out of his mouth was like two very different worlds of mine colliding.
Besides the empowerment he deeply felt through AI tools, it seemed like he had found something he was passionate about. Something he had never been interested in before.
In fact, it reminded me of a weekend when I was maybe 10 years old and made my first website. I was so deeply immersed by it and enjoyed making something so much that I discovered my passion. My whole life changed because of that weekend. It had been as if I had been bitten by a bug for the rest of my life.
By the sound of his voice, it seems like he is starting to appreciate web development for his first time now too. What a beautiful thing.