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+title: Vibe coding for fun and profit
+subtitle: Or How I learned to stop worrying and love the clankers
+author: Chris Beeley
+date: 2026-09-24
+date-format: "MMM D, YYYY"
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+
+## What is vibe coding *not*
+
+* Vibe coding is not using AI as part of a software development workflow
+* Software engineers and data scientists use a lot, a little, or no AI in their work
+* The important difference is they design, read, and check the code
+
+## What is vibe coding?
+
+* Writing code in natural language
+* Karpathy [described it](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibe_coding) "fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists"
+
+## My experience with vibe coding
+
+* I've never used AI to write code at work because it wasn't good enough at that time
+* But I have started to use it for a couple of things for myself
+* I started with what I would call "vibe-lite coding"
+* It was so successful that I went full vibe for the next project
+
+## Vibe-lite coding
+
+* I have elevated skin cancer risk so I'm obsessed with the UV index
+* I don't trust the clouds!
+* So I built this with my own two brain cells
+
+<img src="uv.png" alt="Graph showing UV index per hour">
+
+## Next steps
+
+* It's pretty ugly and hard to read so I fed the whole thing into AI
+* I asked me to help me see the individual time points as well as tidy up the scale
+* I also asked it to add a date
+* Now it's much easier to read
+
+## What's the scoreline people vs clankers?
+
+* I did the groundwork here
+  * Set up the API call and drew the graph
+* AI helped with a daily refresh of the graph (team effort)
+* The formatting and adding a date to the page was all clanker
+* I did the copying and pasting into the RStudio window, and I did all the git commits
+
+## Could anybody do this?
+
+* I'm not really sure
+* I did a lot of faffing around with environment variables, APIs, and deployments
+* I'd love to go back to the beginning of this project and see if the AI could do it with no help
+* Do tell me what you think at the end
+
+## Real vibe coding
+
+* Inspired, I tried real vibe coding
+* Let's have a look at the end product first
+
+## The tools of real vibe coding
+
+* Agentic AI
+* You type in a little box to the right and the agent changes the code
+* Let's have a look at that now
+
+## People vs clankers scoreline again
+
+* I didn't write any of the code for this one
+* I did set up the GitHub repository and using Git is vital IMO
+* I pressed a few buttons to deploy it onto GitHub
+* I did manually record all the sound and fix all the filenames
+* And let's go back and look at the AI and the mistake it made after prompting
+
+## A note on *real* vibe coding
+
+* Doing it properly requires multiple agents
+* You get the AI to write a plan, then you approve the plan
+* Bots to write, bots to review, bots to test, bots to deploy
+* I haven't done this and don't need to for my stupid stuff
+* But that's what you need to get the best results
+
+## Vibe codez 4 life
+
+* I need stupid web apps in my life
+* I know lots of people are doing this all over the world now
+* Give it a try
+
+## Caveats
+
+* I do (slightly) know what I'm doing
+* I know what's possible
+* I can fix silly problems more easily myself than I can explain them to an AI
+
+## Go on Chris, talk about work at the end
+
+* Nobody wants a vibe coded OpenPlan
+* On the whole I think it's managers, not devs, pushing AI tools
+* But I have an open mind about how vibe coding could be used at work more
+
+## How it might be used
+
+* I know some in my team are interested in using it e.g. to try a different technology
+  * "Robot, convert this Shiny to JavaScript"
+* And I do wonder if vibe coding could help non technical people throw something on a screen for a conversation
+* But I don't know, interested in opinions