When you don't know how to write code, vibe-coding feels like D&D spell-casting:

I say a few carefully selected words and an effect emerges that is actually useful.

I'm practicing it every day and reading ancient unintelligible tomes (API Documentation) to hope I can glean some useful verbal or somatic components and, day by day, I'm getting better at manipulating the alien, non-probabilistic force behind it all.

Damn.

I haven't written any "code" since I was in high school/college making websites for stupid shit.

**I still haven't,** but now, I've spent the last two days "vibe-coding" an entire app in Swift/SwiftUI with Codex and Xcode.

This thanks to the coverage by @atpfm and @caseynewton.

Look, genAI has HUGE issues and I'm kinda freaked out by the obsession.

But this is genuinely amazing. I'm making the app I've wanted for years, and it's not that hard.

I'm at a loss for more words, except: WOW.