Vibe coding - let's give it a go
Well, why not?! This seems to be the current (okay, it's been out for a while) trend, where non-coding people have "an idea" and then just want to describe that to a GPT and then get that to autom-magically create an application for apple / android & web. Then sit back and rack in the money. Sounds idyllic & all very cyberpunk. But, how close is the reality to the expectation? I thought I'd give it an investigation look using RORK.com and BASE44.com Here is what I found out from an initial attempt at just using a prompt description. Now, you may (or may not) notice that I started this at 09:41, it seemed to make a good and quick start, however, I think either I picked a busy time or it was a bit more of a complex tasks than I was led to believe. I got a little bored and started to click around to see what the "logs" were saying: I genuinely thought I had crashed it. I thought I'd have a nosy around at the code it generated. Although it is Reac...