On November 30, 2022, the world changed forever.

On that day, ChatGPT officially released to the public.

With it, the barrier to entry for individual sovereignty had been shattered into a million pieces.

Now, anybody with an internet connection could access the same resources as the most wealthy, intelligent people on the planet.

Software engineers quickly learned that AI had the potential to not just write code, but build entire applications using nothing but words.

Thus, Vibe Coding was born.

Vibe Coding is the art of using AI as your dev so you can go from idea to working app with vibes, prompts, and iteration instead of years of technical experience.

It has evolved a LOT since the term was first coined back in February 2025:

At the time of this tweet, AI coding models were pretty dumb.

Vibe Coding was quickly branded as a “lazy” “irresponsible” way to create applications due to the limitations of AI at the time.

But now, not even a year later, AI models have context windows larger than all of the information you could ever consume in an entire human lifetime, and the ability to work independently for HOURS at a time.

A single sentence can eliminate weeks of work that required years of experience to build.

I have been Vibe Coding for a few months now, and I’ve been able to successfully build and deploy several web applications and Discord bots.

Yes, they work, and yes, they are cool. You can check them out here!

How do you pick an AI model to start Vibe Coding with? It feels impossible to sort through the noise and find the best one.

I recommend starting simple - I personally started my journey using Replit.

With it, I built a couple of Discord bots that I still use to this day.

I really like Replit’s all-in-one solution to not only building apps from scratch but also handling hosting for a low cost.

If you are looking to dip your toes in the water and go from idea to application as fast as possible, I highly recommend starting with it!

You can get $10 in free credits by signing up with my referral link here.

My only gripe with Replit is that the credits do run out very fast.

I haven’t used it in a few months now but once you become a power-Vibe Coder and submit consecutive prompts for a few hours, you can rack up a heavy bill (one of my monthly bills was $700 but that’s because I’m crazy).

So where do you go once you’ve graduated from Replit?

Enter Claude Code. The most powerful, cheapest, non-technical way to build any software from scratch.

Not only will Claude write your code, it will install prerequisites, setup databases, and handle everything you could possibly need to get your application up and running.

Think of Claude as a little IT guy + software engineer that lives inside of your computer, I cannot emphasize this enough - it genuinely does everything.

The only downside of Claude Code is that you do need minor technical experience to get it up and running, and it costs $20/mo to start using it.

For your reading pleasure, I have written up a small tutorial to get you up and running:

Claude Code is a piece of software that lives inside of your computer’s terminal.

This just means you will chat with Claude from a text window instead of a normal web page.

Claude Code will then install itself from there.

The first thing you’ll need to do is create a folder. This is where Claude will operate and build your application from.

This will create a new folder called “testfolder” and take you inside of it.

The hard part is over! It’s time to wake Claude up.

When you first run Claude Code, you will be prompted to login to your Claude account.

Once logged in, you should see something like this:

Congrats! You’re ready to start Vibing.

As a test, ask Claude to “Build a simple landing page that says Hello World”

I’ll let your brain run wild from there.

One more tip for you, a life hack that will 100x your skills - use another AI agent to create your prompts for you.

Whenever I’m working through an idea, the first thing I do is fire up ChatGPT and start asking questions.

Once I feel the idea is in a good spot, I have ChatGPT create a prompt I can feed into Claude Code to build the app for me.

This will ensure there are no gaps and you can spend way less time debugging.

Vibe Coding is a balancing act of prompting the AI model, testing your app, and repeating.

You will find that any AI model you use will hallucinate, and tell you things that are simply not true in reality.

If the AI tells you that it made your website blue, you need to go to the website and CONFIRM that it did.

You are going to experience many errors, bugs, and things that turn out in an unexpected way.

Take things one step at a time, use AI to debug, test, rinse and repeat.

Most importantly, this is the coolest thing that the internet has graced us with in several decades. Have an absolute blast with it.

Build to your heart’s desire, automate everything, and maybe take a break to fist your friends when you get frustrated.