Finally, an AI use that — I swear — can actually simplify your life
Margeaux Walter for BI Every time I see someone opening ChatGPT on the subway or at the grocery store, I feel a tinge of dread . Surely, our basic questions can be answered with a bit of thinking, or a search that surfaces information that we can critically assess. Most evidence suggests that I'm simply falling behind the times. About a third of Americans interact with AI several times a week. Plenty of people I respect use it in cool and interesting ways, and basic AI usage has become a fact of life. When I was assigned to work on a project about the rise of vibe coding , where non-coders use AI programs to create apps, I had that same skepticism. What I discovered instead was a group of vibe coders of all ages and professions having a quaint, fun time — and a vision for how AI could meaningfully improve the lives of ordinary people. Rather than a source of brain rot or an all-conquering vision of a new economic world order, vibe coding seemed more reminiscent of coding a custom...
