I tried vibe coding to build an app with AI using Lovable

For the past several months, my social media feed has been flooded with people bragging about spinning up apps and websites over a weekend without any engineering help or coding — with just vibes.

Vibe coding is simply using regular language to describe your intentions to an artificial intelligence bot, which then generates the code.

I was intrigued, but I brushed it aside as just another fleeting internet moment like NFTs and metaverse farmlands. Also, trying vibe coding felt like…