From Click to Code

How vibe coding taught me to read before I write

Yesterday, the AI rated me. Today, I rate my journey.

I started with Lovable — a visual app builder where you click, describe, and the AI writes the code. WYSIWYG: What You See Is What You Get. And what you don't see? The code underneath. The logic. The architecture.

It was comfortable. And dangerous. Because I built platforms without understanding a single line.

Then came PyCharm — a professional development environment. Suddenly I could see the code. Hundreds of files, folder structures, imports and exports. It was like walking into a library where every book is open, but written in a language you don't speak.

And now: Claude Code. A terminal. No more clicking, just typing. I tell the AI what I want — and watch, line by line, what happens. This is vibe coding in its most honest form: you set the direction, the AI writes, but you need to understand what it does. Otherwise you're building castles in the air.

My learning vehicle? The Event Buddy — a small tool I'm building as an experiment. No textbook example with abstract variables. Instead, my own question: How do I organize events intelligently? I learn more from this than from any tutorial, because every decision is real.

The lesson of Day 2: Vibe coding is not a shortcut. It's a method — but only if you're willing to follow the vibes into the code.

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Open a terminal (or Claude Code, or Replit). Type: "Create a simple Python file that prints my name and today's date." Read the code the AI writes. Do you understand every line? If not — ask.

When was the last time I used something without understanding how it works — and did it ever get me into trouble?

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