Send good vibes - by Lorenzo Ancona - Artifacts

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It’s called In The Box - a repository of newsletters that I plan to expand into a full-fledged community. I’ll be focusing on it more in the coming weeks (I’ll need to populate it - send tips if you have!) But what’s more striking isn’t the tool itself, which is fairly basic, it’s how it came to exist. I built it entirely through Lovable, a sort of ChatGPT for web development, which quickly assembled the UI, set up a GitHub repository, and handled deployment with a custom domain. And I didn’t write a single line of code. I just reviewed it. Sure, I could have manually coded the database, but not as fast as Lovable did. Also, I’m not an expert in web design, but I got exactly the vintage, Windows XP vibe I was looking for. What’s all this about, anyway? Andrej Karpathy, former AI guru at Tesla and X, calls it “vibe coding.” In simple terms: you describe what you want in natural language, and AI generates the code. No syntax struggles. No late-night Stack Overflow deep dives. Just vibes.

Last weekend, in just 36 minutes, I built, developed, and deployed this web app. I need more newsletter recommendations!! It’s called In The Box - a repository of newsletters that I plan to expand into a full-fledged community. I’ll be focusing on it more in the coming weeks (I’ll need to populate it - send tips if you have!) But what’s more striking isn’t the tool itself, which is fairly basic, it’s how it came to exist. I built it entirely through Lovable, a sort of ChatGPT for web development, which quickly assembled the UI, set up a GitHub repository, and handled deployment with a…

Send good vibes - by Lorenzo Ancona - Artifacts

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