I vibe-coded a Windows app with ChatGPT. Getting it to work was another story

A decade or so ago, I had a small utility application that I would use for batch resizing a number of photos. I have no idea who coded it or where I even originally found it, but it was a specialized app for a specialized purpose and I’m lucky I even ran across it.

Today, I could build my own. You could, too! If you can think of it, you can probably vibe-code it. It’s time to start adopting that mindset.

This week’s Smart Mode isn’t about AI slop, which is becoming an ad machina argument. This is about thinking, “Wouldn’t it be nice if my PC could do this?”—and then doing it.

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