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There’s a new trend among AI enthusiasts, and it’s not chatbots or agents. We’re talking about “vibe coding”—a session in which a person simply talks to an AI, gives an idea of something they want to build, and starts iterating with the model, asking it to fix and improve things along the way. It’s supposedly as easy as talking to a friend, and simple enough for even laymen with extremely modest technical sophistication to do. I wrote about it here. But to get beyond the hype, I wanted to see if vibe coding could actually produce something useful. Vibe coding a useful app? I chose Claude 3.7 Sonnet as my AI partner after Decrypt’s tests showed it outperformed even Grok-3 for coding tasks. My software project was pretty simple: I wanted to build a typing game in which words cascade down the screen, tasking players with typing them before they reach the bottom to survive. We started with the most basic prompt possible: “Write a beautiful, relaxing game in which I must type out words fast to remain alive. The words are falling down and each letter has a vanishing effect as I type on them.” Within minutes, Claude pumped out what looked like a complete game… But when I tried to run it, nothing happened. The start button was dead. I mentioned the error to Claude and it started to work assuring me it found the bug and was working to fix it. Claude was done, and the new game was in front of our eyes. I tried it, and nope… still broken. Rather than diving into the code ourselves (that’s not vibe coding!), I just told Claude: “Nope. Nothing happens when I click the button. The game never starts.” The AI went back to work, and its second…

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