All posts tagged: vibe

If Mean People Ruin Your Vibe, This Simple Brain Trick Makes Them Easier To Ignore

If Mean People Ruin Your Vibe, This Simple Brain Trick Makes Them Easier To Ignore

Published by Jenni Sidey

“I am so sick of moving you out of apartments. I’ve moved you out of five apartments in four years, and enough is enough!!” “You know Jeremy threw me out, and I have to move today! I thought we were friends, but I guess if you have to go to your niece’s baptism instead of helping me move my few paltry items a few blocks, that tells me how you really feel about me!” “If I gave you a kidney, you’d think I was a bad friend!” “Don’t worry about it, because you wouldn’t give me a kidney if I were on death’s doorstep!” “Ahhhhhhhhhhh!” (sound of me screaming) This is an argument I had with a “friend.” Except for the fact that the friend wasn’t actually present. It was the argument I had in my head waiting in line at the grocery store to buy laxatives, since my annoyance rendered me constipated. Have you ever had feuds with those you love or loathe in your head? Literally spending hours — nay, days and weeks — grappling with this person, and they don’t even know about it? I’m going to say this because I want you to …

Replit launches the newest version of its popular vibe coding app

Replit launches the newest version of its popular vibe coding app

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Good news for vibe coders everywhere: Apple has lifted its temporary ban on Replit updates, enacted earlier this year, and the company has officially released Agent 4, first teased in March. CEO Amjad Massad took to X to celebrate the good news: “We worked things out with Apple, and just published our app for the first time in 4 months. Thanks to all our customers and creators who helped out. It’s been a journey, but we never give up and stay winning! Enjoy the updates! Lots of new things coming.” SEE ALSO: Apple boots vibe coding app Anything from App Store The Agent 4 update brings powerful new upgrades to the platform, including the introduction of parallel agents to allow you to work on multiple ideas simultaneously, the ability to collaborate on projects by merging flows, and the ability to view your projects across multiple workspaces.  Mashable Light Speed Though it isn’t exactly clear what compromise or agreement Apple managed to reach with Replit and other AI-based software creators, the original dispute involved a long-standing …

Lovable just backed a company that’s looking to bring vibe coding to hardware

Lovable just backed a company that’s looking to bring vibe coding to hardware

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Lovable, the AI-powered app-building platform, has backed Danish hardware startup Atech, which wants to introduce “vibe coding” to the process of creating hardware. Lovable was part of an $800,000 pre-seed round that also included a16z’s scout fund, Sequoia Scout Fund, and Nordic Makers.  In a chat with TechCrunch, Atech’s head of customer experience, Gustav Hugod, said the platform’s workings are quite simple. Users buy a starter hardware kit for whatever they are trying to build from Atech’s site. Then they open a tab at the site, talk to an AI chatbot, describe the hardware concept they’re trying to build, and the AI tool generates code that helps them build a working prototype. Hugod said the company’s user base is pretty broad right now, “from four-year-olds building cars to a hydrogen synthesis plant that needs precise voltage sensing.” Typically, building any type of hardware prototype requires decades of experience or finding pricy but talented engineers. But Hugod said that as the “accessibility gap of software has collapsed,” so will the difficulty of building in the hardware …

Vibe Coded Apps Are Spilling Users’ Personal Information Directly Into the Maw of Greedy Hackers

Vibe Coded Apps Are Spilling Users’ Personal Information Directly Into the Maw of Greedy Hackers

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Artificial intelligence has torn through many industries since the debut of ChatGPT in 2022, but there’s probably no single area where it’s had a clearer material impact than software development. Programmers running the gamut from experienced to novice have embraced the tech, using chatbots and specialty tools to quickly generate code from natural language prompts. “Vibe coding,” as it’s come to be known, lets almost anyone churn out entire apps in little time — even if they have little or no technical chops. On a certain level, you have to admit that’s pretty cool. But as we’re learning time and again, it also has distinct downsides. One particularly glaring drawback is that a lot of vibe-coded software is now being deployed with gaping security flaws. In the latest sign that we may be veering into an AI-enabled hack-pocalypse, a fascinating new Wired story covers research by a cybersecurity firm called RedAccess that found sprawling privacy issues in vibe-coded …

Apple Is Blocking Vibe Coding Apps From the App Store, Infuriating Developers

Apple Is Blocking Vibe Coding Apps From the App Store, Infuriating Developers

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech There’s unrest brewing in the world of vibe-coding startups. Apple is blocking AI coding apps on the App Store, sparking complaints among AI companies that believe the tech giant’s rules are outdated and draconian, the Financial Times reports. Apple’s resistance here could remain a huge roadblock for the AI industry, as coding tools have become one of the most popular — and potentially profitable — use cases for AI. The rule in question is App Store Guideline 2.5.2, which blocks apps from downloading, installing, or executing code that changes their functionality. This is a safety measure that Apple argues prevents unvetted software from running on users’ phones, per the FT. That’s quite clearly a problem for vibe-coding AI tools, whose purpose is to design and build entire pieces of software for you; when you use one of these apps’ preview functions to test your vibe-coded creation, that’s downloading and executing code. Among the aggrieved startups is Replit, which …

I’ve vibe coded 7 working apps — I wish I knew these 3 things when I started

I’ve vibe coded 7 working apps — I wish I knew these 3 things when I started

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Almost three months ago, I discovered vibe coding after meeting YouWare in China, and to say that it’s changed my life since would be an understatement. Over the course of 12 weeks, I’ve gone from dreaming of building certain platforms and apps to using AI tools to build them. At first, I was slow and focused on one prompt and project at a time, but now I’m running up to five projects at once, with multiple parallel agents in each workspace. My vibe coding process and journey have changed considerably since I started, and here are the three things I wish I’d known then. Feed the AI context The more you tell it, the better some models are This is my golden rule: there should be one AI agent that knows everything about your business. Their sole job is to spot the vines — both good and bad — that are binding your business together. For me, this is where Claude Opus 4.6 proves to be both a blessing and a curse. It’s expensive, and …

Microsoft Is All-In on Agentic AI and Vibe Coding Now That It’s ‘Working’

Microsoft Is All-In on Agentic AI and Vibe Coding Now That It’s ‘Working’

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During Microsoft’s latest earnings call on Wednesday, CEO Satya Nadella perhaps unintentionally summed up the current state of the company’s massive agentic AI push. “It sort of didn’t work until it started working,” Nadella said, referencing the Agent Mode feature in Microsoft Excel, “and that’s just because the model showed up.” Agent Mode, a feature that uses AI to create and edit Excel workbooks in tandem with your actions, is now the default mode for Microsoft 365 Copilot and Premium subscribers in Excel, Word and PowerPoint as of last week. He said Microsoft’s investments in its AI infrastructure gave the company the usage capacity to implement the model that worked. (Nadella used the term Agent Mode, but officially, Microsoft has retired that term, preferring the simpler “edit with Copilot.”) That capacity played a big role during the earnings call, as Microsoft shifts toward charging customers for how much they use the AI, not just for access licenses. “We have a structural position in knowledge, work, coding [and] security,” he said. “And then you couple that …

The Secret to Having a Good Vibe (That Others Can’t Resist)

The Secret to Having a Good Vibe (That Others Can’t Resist)

Published by Jenni Sidey

I was in a New York City taxi headed for the airport for a flight back to California. All should have been well except for one thing: My driver was out of his mind. Granted, I had made him wait for a few minutes while I was getting my bags. But his level of rage was truly frightening. Fueled by frustration, he was driving fast and recklessly on the highway around Manhattan. Cowering in the back seat, anxious for our lives, and feeling completely powerless, I decided to try an ancient Buddhist practice I had heard about. I closed my eyes and started silently repeating these phrases in my head: “May you be happy, may you be peaceful, may you be at ease.” They were directed at the driver, wishing him well. To my surprise, after a few minutes of doing this silent practice, the driver noticeably relaxed, slowed his speed, and struck up a lovely conversation with me. By the end of the car ride, he even showed me pictures of his kids. The …

People Who Can Read Moods, Energy, And Vibes Usually Have 11 More Rare Talents

People Who Can Read Moods, Energy, And Vibes Usually Have 11 More Rare Talents

Published by Jenni Sidey

Many people who have developed social awareness over their lives, whether from trauma or as a side effect of growing emotional intelligence, can read the energy of a room before they speak to anyone. It’s a natural kind of intuition that often serves in their best interests, connecting with people and protecting their peace. From noticing someone with great, welcoming energy when they’re anxious to seeing the vibes shift negatively when one person enters the room, they’re observant and aware. However, people who can read moods, energy, and vibes usually have more rare talents that others tend to miss. People who can read moods, energy, and vibes usually have 11 more rare talents 1. They have an accurate intuition Many people who can rely on their gut instincts and intuition to live their lives steer clear of overly rigid thinking because their inner voice provides all the wisdom they need. Especially when they practice building trust with themselves and regularly tap into their intuition with meditation, mindfulness, and reflection, they’re no stranger to trusting their …

AI startup Rocket offers vibe McKinsey-style reports at a fraction of the cost

AI startup Rocket offers vibe McKinsey-style reports at a fraction of the cost

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Indian startup Rocket is betting that the next big opportunity is the part before the vibe coding: having AI help people decide what to build. It has launched a platform that produces consulting-style product strategies. The startup, based in Surat, India, on Tuesday launched its platform, Rocket 1.0, which connects research, product building, and competitive intelligence in a single workflow. The platform generates detailed product strategy documents — including pricing, unit economics, and go-to-market recommendations. As AI-powered coding tools proliferate — from platforms like Cursor, Replit, and Lovable to features such as Claude Code and Codex — writing code has become significantly easier and faster. “Everyone can generate the code now… it has become a commodity. But what to build is something which everyone is missing,” said Rocket co-founder and CEO Vishal Virani (pictured above), adding that “running a business and just building a codebase are two different things.” TechCrunch briefly tested Rocket’s platform ahead of its launch and found that it generated product requirement documents in PDF format from simple prompts. These documents resemble …