LLMs, and especially sites like v0, Bolt, Lovable, and Replit, have made coders out of non-coders. PMs, and marketers. All they have to do is type what they want, and, boom, out comes an app.
I’ve been told this is called vibe coding.
Never mind that the code is garbage, and impossible to maintain.
But that doesn’t matter when what you’re building isn’t worth maintaining. Vibe coding has been an amazing boon for those pointless jokes that are funny enough to share with your friends. Or maybe they’re just funny to you. But they’re not funny enough that you’re willing to spend even one hour coding it
I call it sh*t posting.
My first sht coded site was a reaction to the sht outreach I was getting from recruiters: a bingo board for all of the awful LinkedIn outreach. I’ve never actually sent it to anyone, as I’m too nice, and recruiters aren’t sending outreach in 2024 and 2025 now that ChatGPT is taking all of our jobs. Still, if you want to, you can copy the link to the completed board to share.
Next up was CaLLMculator, the LLM-powered calculator app. If others can get VC funds for shoving LLMs where they don’t belong, why not me?
Then, there was CancelGuard, inspired by a certain cough e-commerce company’s “free shipping” subscription. (Thanks for the idea, Jeff!)
On this last one, I made the smart move to use the .xyx TLD, which is a lot cheaper than .com.
The best thing about LLMs is that, no matter how terrible the idea, it will always take you seriously.
I’m not the only one out here sh*t coding, however. You’ve got apps like Yo!, where all you can do is send a message that says “Yo” to your friends.
Wait, nevermind, I’ve just been told that Yo was a real app that raised real VC money. Human puppy Gary Vee even made a video on its value for marketing.
What a world.