Overview
- Business Insider profiles four novices who built side projects: an iOS dog‑ID app, an emotional‑reset web app, an expense‑claims tool, and a family meal planner.
- Builders leaned on Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Replit and Xcode, often pasting generated code they did not fully understand into working projects.
- Reported tactics included step‑by‑step instructions, small iterative changes, monitoring whether error messages change, resetting chats, and using voice dictation for clearer prompts.
- A DEV Community critique argues code generation access is not the same as engineering, warning of dependency errors, overconfidence and a widening digital divide without auditing skills.
- The Register highlights non‑deterministic outputs and maintainability risks, casting vibe coding as useful for quick demos rather than production‑grade systems and noting Torvalds’s qualified approval.