I’m a GP who’s built 10 apps without writing a line of code

Vibe coding. It’s a term that’s bubbling around to describe a new wave of app creation. It means instead of writing code line by line, you build software by describing what you want in plain language – and an AI agent generates the code for you.

Put simply: you describe the vibe of the app, and the AI starts building it for you.

This movement was popularised by Slovak-Canadian AI researcher Andrej Karpathy, who described English as “the hottest new programming language” in 2024.

The idea has since taken off across platforms like Replit, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot, where AI turns lay language prompts like ‘create a to-do list with a calendar’ into a working app.

As a GP, I was intrigued. Could this be a way for people like me – with lots of ideas but no coding background –...