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Vibe Coding: Programming for the Clueless
How ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude Fare at Converting the Prompts of the Coding Illiterate into Programs
As AI has gotten more powerful and more intelligent, one of the biggest challenges has been finding people qualified enough to assess its skills and abilities. There’s a finite number of us operating at PhD level in applied mathematics.
However, this is really only an issue for companies hoping to advance AI. Because users, for the most part, use AI for things that we already know how to do well. So that we can either do them faster or more creatively. And occasionally even better. Rarely do we delve into areas of expertise that we are wholly unfamiliar with. That changes this week!
Aside from a very brief foray into coding (amounting to a barely passing grade in C++ over 20 years ago), my coding experience is close to zero. Thankfully, it’s not as difficult to use AI for something you’re totally unfamiliar with (in this case, coding) as I had anticipated. However, you’ll need a good portion of patience and limited expectations for the end result.
This was very much my experience when trying to code a small program that would allow me to input exercises performed and then output meals that would replete vital nutrients and…
