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Vibe Coding Lets Non-Coders Ship Real Apps as Warnings Grow on Reliability

New interviews show AI lets novices build working projects in spare time, with durability hinging on debugging and auditing skills rather than prompting alone.

Overview

  • Business Insider interviewed four non-technical people who built usable apps using AI tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, Replit, Cursor, and Xcode.
  • Cynthia Chen, a San Francisco product designer, created Dog-e-dex as an iOS app by iteratively prompting Claude and pasting code into Xcode.
  • Maryland mother Karima Williams vibe coded a web app for emotional regulation, relying on step-by-step guidance and voice input to manage complexity.
  • Malaysia-based accountant Wei Khjan Chan built a receipt-processing and invoicing tool, emphasizing small, iterative prompts and watching error messages change to debug.
  • A DEV Community essay cautioned that AI-generated code often hits dependency and build errors and argued that a new divide is emerging between makers and those who can maintain and repair systems, elevating the need for 'logic verification.'