What my mom what he lacks in robust legs, he makes up for with a subscription to Claude Pro. Over the last few years, I had repeatedly harassed her about the environmental, political and economic implications of artificial intelligence, and last Sunday I put it all aside and went to her house. After a compact conversation about Tibia, I opened her computer and started emitting vibrations.
I’d like to create a publicly available app that collects and shares information about how much time and energy we spend fighting cumbersome administrative tasks, bureaucratic sludge, Kafka-style unsubscription mazes, byzantine insurance portals, unfair fees, denied claims, confusing membership plans, and the like.
With as much clarity and detail as I could muster, I began to describe the dashboard that would record the scale and scope of our collective settlement. Users recorded frustrating events in their lives, reporting how much time they spent, how annoying it was, and what they would rather do. Each submission will be dopamine rewarded with an inspiring quote from the resistance movement and a photo of a kitten, puppy or baby chimpanzee. I would instruct Claude to create a “broader context” – a paragraph discussing how the frustrating incident fits into systemic sediment patterns – and a letter of complaint to the appropriate regulators.
Claude pasta. Not for the first time, I feared that my vibrations would simply display an error page. I vaguely remembered some advice I had seen on Reddit forums: “I would learn how computers and code work first.” “I would consider going through Harvard CS50.” “Instead of learning AWS or servers, use something like Kuberns.” I started to worry that vibration coding was some kind of rock soup: Sure, anyone can do it, you just need Harvard-level knowledge of dozens of programming languages and cloud platforms first.
This worry lasted about three Kuberns of a second. Claude stopped thinking and started investigating what he had to admit was an inherently amazing concept: “That’s a fantastic idea – really useful, with a clear mission and a great sense of humor about a real problem. Let me give you some honest ground before we dive in.”
A few clarifying questions later, I was staring at the real interface. The Log Event and Dashboard tabs weren’t working yet, we hadn’t agreed that entries would be saved anywhere, and I still had to teach Claude the more context parts. But the beginnings of a web application appeared.