Good Vibes Only: Vibe Coding an Internal App to Manage My Business

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The author shares their experience of 'vibe coding' an internal app to manage their business, highlighting the importance of creating tools that bring joy and efficiency. The discussion revolves around the author's approach and its potential applicability to others.

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idopmstuffAuthor

3 months ago

I buy and operate small e-commerce brands, and since GPT-3.5, I've been attempting to vibe code software to help me manage the business. With GPT-5 Codex I have finally managed to create something legitimately useful for myself. The code may be (almost certainly is) not of great quality, but for the purposes of an internal application that only I use, it's doing the job just fine.

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