Code that vibe codes

0:00 And here it is filling up my hard drive with a self-replicating script, effectively AI generated malware. Fun. In this video, we'll be doing some vibe coding, which is an annoying new buzzword that basically means you let the AI write all of the code for you. So, don't worry if you don't know anything about programming. That's the whole point. This game, for instance, went super viral on Twitter for being vibecoded in 30 minutes and is now making 500 trillion a month.

0:23 Wow, the quality is incredible. It is truly one of the best games I have ever played. It's so unique and wellcrafted, especially the sound design. It's not AI at all. [Applause] That is one big pile of Okay, it's not that bad. I've made worse. And it's kind of cool that it was AI generated. But the fact that it has more ads than a mobile game just shows that the focus is clearly on making money by driving hype rather than actually making a good game.

1:14 Ironically, what's so off about this AI slop is the vibes. The vibes are all wrong. There's no polish. The sound is awful. The controls are clunky. The aesthetic is ugly. So many edge cases are untested. But the last thing I want to do is discourage people from making things, even if they suck. This game can absolutely be improved, and it has inspired lots of people to vibe code all kinds of things that otherwise wouldn't exist at all.

1:37 And that's cool. So, in this video, I want to try vibe coding something myself and show what works well and what can go wrong. Feel free to skip around. At the end of the video, I will give my final review and recommendations on vibe coding. I am not sponsored by any of these AI companies. This is an honest review of their products. I know other developers have given their views on some of these hyped up tools, and they're far more experienced programmers than me.

1:59 [Music] But I have a decade of programming experience. I've worked with lots of different languages and lots of different environments on lots of different teams. I'm not the best programmer in the world, but I am definitely the second best. We're going to start with Cursor, a code editor based on VS Code with lots of souped-up AI tools. It's basically the same thing as GitHub Copilot, though I think it's generally been more at the cutting edge. It has autocomplete, but also a built-in