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.'