The rise of 'vibe coding' and AI-powered prototyping

The rise of 'vibe coding' and AI-powered prototyping
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Peter Griffin
A couple of weeks ago, when I had ten minutes or so to kill before an event started, I opened the Replit app on my phone for a spot of off-the-cuff software development.To be clear, I have absolutely zero coding ability. But with platforms like Replit and Lovable, you don’t need it. Artificial intelligence (AI) does the coding for you. For years, I’ve been putting off upgrading my creaking old website, which contains thousands of articles published over the last 20 years.So I asked Replit to build me a new one, instructing it t...

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