Vibe coding is the best part of AI, really.
There are times that I just want a simple script. Something useful to do something absolutely stupid-simple except that I don’t have the coding skills or the knowledge on which commands will get me what I want.
Some of the WordPress plugins I did for my gothic western were a bit more complex, but in no way would justify paying someone $10 annually for a subscription to “not quite do what I wanted it to do, but it was good enough for my needs” kind of thing. AI wrote those plugins in minutes flat for nothing.
I have no intention of taking work away from real coders, but having something to covert my old blog .xml files from sceadugenga.com (2019-2025) into a readable (or even printable) is not stealing money from anyone. It’s something that some simple coding can do, and more efficiently than both free and paid options out there offer.
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