My son taught me AI coding at 73. I was scared to hit 'enter' — now I feel free.

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Kevin Masterson and Carol Merlo are pictured.
Carol Merlo built websites with WordPress, Weebly, and Wix. Her son, Kevin Masterson, taught her to vibe code her own with Claude Code.

Kevin Masterson

I built a Pinterest-inspired web app. It's cute, but it shows how coding with AI falls short.

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A top view of Dreamscapes displayed on a work computer.
"Dreamscapes" is an app I custom-built for a friend, who wanted a scrapbook-style web app inspired by Pinterest.

Cheryl Teh

I'm a product manager who used Claude to build a postcard business in 4 hours

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Priscilla Tina.
Priscilla Tina used Claude to build a postcard app in about four hours.

Priscilla Tina

Too many app ideas, too few coding skills? It's time to vibe code your life.

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Jonathan Butler, Joe Poynton, Scott Klipper

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Too many app ideas, too few coding skills?

This firefighter hated doubling back at the grocery store. So he vibe coded an app to fix it.

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Joe Poynton

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When Joe Poynton went to the grocery store, he dutifully worked through his shopping list — before getting to the bottom and realizing he'd passed those items aisles ago.

I tested Claude Design and Canva AI. One had to be coached, the other anticipated my every need.

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A photo of a MacBook and a Nikon DSLR.
I used Claude Design and Canva to create the same presentation to see how they stack up.

Aditi Bharade

I used AI to code a scheduling app in minutes. It was easy, but it shouldn't worry software companies.

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A picture of a laptop displaying the home screen for Herdly.
I wanted to make scheduling meetups fuss-free, and trying to peer in on my friends' calendar apps wasn't cutting it. Enter Herdly!

Aditi Bharade

Consuming too much AI can be a bad idea. New data on 'tokenmaxxing' reveals a better approach.

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Nathan's Hot Dog Eating champion Joey Chestnut eats an olive burgers before the Lugnuts game against the TinCaps at Jackson Field in Lansing. Chestnut set a record with 13 olive burgers eaten in 5 minutes.
Consuming too much is sometimes not good. Burger consumption is shown above. AI token consumption is discussed below.

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Claude Code creator Boris Cherny is sick of the phrase 'vibe coding'

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Boris Cherny talks at San Francisco's Code with Claude developer conference.
Boris Cherny, the creator of Claude Code.

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I was one of Lovable's first 50 hires. Here's how I got the job after initially getting rejected.

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Lovable "felt very accessible as somebody who's non-technical," Mindaugas Petrutis said.

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