I was helping my neighbor build a simple website for her small business last weekend
She knows nothing about coding but she kept telling me what she wanted in plain English
Make the header bigger she’d say or can we add a contact form here
And I realized something profound
This is exactly what vibe coding feels like now
You just chat with AI about what you want and it builds the software
No more staring at syntax errors or debugging for hours
You describe your vision and the robot makes it happen
But here’s the thing that most people miss
The real skill isn’t in writing code anymore
It’s in having clear conversations with these AI systems
You need to articulate exactly what you want
Not just functionally but emotionally
How should it feel to use this app
What’s the experience you’re trying to create
This reminds me of that principle about focusing on intentions
Code is Capability Intentions and Interfaces are Long-term Assets
The prompts you write become your real assets
Not the temporary code that gets generated
Think about it
When you manually tweak some generated code
You’re fixing symptoms not causes
The real issue is probably in how you described what you wanted
That’s why I love the principle about not manually editing code
It forces you to improve your communication skills instead
You learn to express your requirements better
To think more clearly about what you actually need
And here’s where it gets really interesting
As these conversations with AI become more natural
We’re seeing something remarkable happen
People who never thought they could program
Are suddenly building useful applications
My neighbor with her website
A teacher creating custom learning tools
A small business owner automating their inventory
They’re all vibe coding without even knowing the term
They’re just having conversations
Telling robots what they want built
And watching it come to life
This is the future of software development
Not writing lines of code
But having clear intentional conversations
About what we want to create
The robots are ready to listen
Are we ready to speak clearly