A.I. and Vibecoding Helped Me to Create My Own Software

I am not a coder. I can’t write a single line of Python, JavaScript or C++. Except for a brief period in my teenage years when I built websites and tinkered with Flash animations, I’ve never been a software engineer, nor do I harbor ambitions of giving up journalism for a career in the tech industry.

And yet, for the past several months, I’ve been coding up a storm.

Among my creations: a tool that transcribes and summarizes long podcasts, a tool to organize my social media bookmarks into…