Vibe Coding: Useful Things

Or how to make AI help you be a better programmer

IDK, maybe AI should stick to coding but as a conceptual drawing, this isn’t too bad

Every other story on my tech feed here is, “How to make ten million dollars with AI and slop generation!” Something like that anyway. I firmly believe that’s all nonsense and probably isn’t happening in real life. I try to focus on practical things while still using AI in a, hopefully, meaningful manner. Make sense? Cool!

Everyone is making an “organize your desktop with AI” type of script with AI. This is a super awesome usage for AI. It’s a small and predictable style of script that can be easily defined. It’s also pretty easy to test without major pains, so I opened up my good buddy Claude AI and got to “work.” Well, it worked; I drank some tea, and all was right with the world. First up, the description of what I wanted, the cool kids call this a prompt.

"I need you build a python application that runs on my mac and has 
  the following features:

1. Gathers up all the files names from my Desktop, Downloads, and 
     Documents folders
2. Figures out the file types (excluding system files)
3. Reads the files where possible and renames the files appropriately
4. It will then creates subfolders under each main folder and move the renamed files there
5. It can try to figure out the file content using AI
6. It will log ALL actions

If you're the wrong tool for this, let me know."