I vibe coded my first app last night. It was an app I’ve had in mind for going on like two years now. But I did not have the time, or even possibly the skill to make it. So I thought I would try making it with Claude Code. I was reading online how good Claude Code was and I had been putting off really trying it out.

Up until this point I had trialed it on simple projects just to familiarize myself with its commands. This app was going to require some more “vibing” than technical know how. So I went at it for an hour or so. The first round was a great rough draft. I iterated and iterated, making slight tweaks each time. After about seven iterations and it not breaking (and it being my bed time) I called it good. I’m not going to lie, I was impressed at first, it created it better than I could have done on my own, and it certainly did it quicker.

Today arrived, like most days do. I’m telling my wife about this app and how crazy it was that it made it made it so quickly and that it actually works. I told her that I wanted to show it to her. So after dinner she looked at it for like, a minute. She was polite, thought it was neat, threw out a couple of suggestions, and then she got up and proceeded to get ready for work.

Now, thinking on it a bit, I see why she brushed it off like she did. It wasn’t necessarily because she had to go get ready for work, or because of the kids hollering for us, or because she had to use the bathroom, or whatever else may have been on her mind. I believe it was because she felt I didn’t actually make it myself, an LLM did, and so therefore didn't deserve much though or contemplation. And because an LLM made it, it has lesser value and meaning to her than something I may have made myself. To her, it was AI Slop (she actually doesn’t know that term), It was something that wasn’t made by a human, it can be replicated, and therefore doesn't bring any “value” or joy to a person. It doesn’t bring value or joy to her because it didn’t bring any value or joy to me either. It’s about as useful and neat to her as a cheap trinket sold in a gift shop.

Now, we could say the app didn’t have value because it wasn’t useful (it really wasn’t). It wasn’t meant to be useful. It was a creative app, it wasn’t meant to have utility. What we could say is it didn’t have any value to her because it wasn’t made by a person, even if a person guided it.

Two things I’m taking away from this experience:

1) Coding, especially front end work just got really easy for an average technical person and the monetary value of that skill is going to go down significantly in the future.

2) Human value is going to increase, meaning, the human experience transferred into and through something will be worth a lot more than it currently is in the near future.

I will expand on this in the future.