Once we can ‘vibe code’, new uses appear everywhere. Start small, test carefully, and turn everyday annoyances into working tools.
Most of us are technically confident with business computing: we can work with spreadsheets, we may have edited a bit of HTML or moved data from one system to another. All everyday stuff.
But many of us have not yet tried ‘vibe coding’ – and that’s a missed opportunity.
Vibe coding is using an Ai assistant such as ChatGPT to help build useful software tools by describing what we want and asking for changes until it works. For anyone who is already IT-literate, the learning curve is astonishingly friendly.
A first project does not need to be ambitious. A good starter task might be a simple web form that collects enquiries, logs the data in a spreadsheet, and sends a confirmation email. That is the sort of thing many businesses need all the time. It is also the sort of thing that used to require a developer.
Now we can ask an Ai tool to draft the form, explain where the code goes, add validation, improve the layout and connect it to a Google Sheet or another simple database. Don’t know what to do at any stage? Just ask. The Ai isn’t judgemental.
Once we have the skill, the possible uses start multiplying. That’s how business skills work. Before we can do something, we barely see the opportunities. Once we can do it, they appear everywhere.
The free Ai services all offer what we need to get started. The important point is not which tool we choose. The important point is to give it a go.