A month of vibecoding

Back in elementary-school computer class, the teacher had us type URLs into the browser bar. I remember wondering: who builds these websites? Where are they? Could I find myself somewhere on the internet?

That question stayed open for years. Until this month — I cobbled together a personal-finance app, then a billiards scorer, then this site itself, and finally closed the loop. Search my name on the internet now and you’ll find me.

Thanks to the times we live in, I get to wield something as absurdly powerful as Claude Code. The Max plan runs ¥700 a month — pricey. And yet, also kind of cheap: ¥700 buys me a lever long enough that an outsider like me can “develop software” he actually uses every day. That’s wild.

What feels most important right now is the idea. AI has taken over nearly all of the actual writing-code part; what’s left is judgment calls — does this feature belong, where does it go, would I use it daily? AI can’t answer those.

I’m aware this is still well within my three-minute-attention-span phase. Where I’ll land by the end of next month, I genuinely don’t know. More than the projects falling apart, what I care about is whether I can settle a little vibecoding philosophy of my own out of this stretch. If it ends up being just a month of playing around, fine — but I’m hoping it’s not.

Check back next month.