I'm going to start this out by admitting I'm an old soul. I don't really get the AI things but I am trying to catch up since I waited so long to see what this is all about and try integrating it into my workflow. Anyway "the kids" are doing this thing called vibe coding. I thought it was just like hyper focused coding with music because that's always been about the vibes to me. I was wrong. Vibe coding is using AI to build out a full projects for you. I have decided to try this on an application I've already built and never really released to the public. ## The App The app is called "My Car". Just a way to track car maintenance. I want it to be super simple and local. The Android app is simple using kotlin multiplatform and rooms for the backend. I like the app honestly and the only fault I see is that I don't carry my android enough. lol For the web app I decided to take a different approach. I want to try to stick with kotlin, but I wanted a postgres backend. I made the "AI" create milestones to breakdown the project, we have a pretty decent readme, and my approach to this was a "I describe what to do and wait on a PR for it". ## Thoughts I used cursor for this experiment, and I actually kinda like this. I see how it's saving folks a bunch of time to make it to market. I don't really code code anymore since I'm super focused on my devops upskilling, but this was fun for me. I got to feel like I was back looking over PRs for new features. I also didn't have to spend time learning kotlin and springboot for the frontend. Now, a thing I wish I did myself was the backend but I have other projects for that. I do like that you can force AI to explain things as we go. It kept trying to include things that I don't care about initially. I just wanted an easy to use docker app. I'd take care of the ci/cd. Once that context was there I felt like we were moving better. I think this will help me fix some of my older projects a bit faster and maybe allow me to branch into some new projects without having to spend too much time ramping up. I'm old, but I think everyone should give this a try just to see if you would use AI in your dev work flow and how.