Weekend adventures in AI collaboration and vibe coding

While I’ve worked on several AI-powered projects for work recently, I can’t share those here and I can’t take exclusive credit. However, recent conversations inspired me to spend some time pushing my limits on my own time.

These three resulting projects, I think, are ready to share:

System Breach

My first project, inspired by some play with my eldest son, was to create a game. At first, the idea was a “Don’t fall in” sort of board game, but that theme felt a little tired.

In the end, through AI collaboration, I landed on a hacker vs. hacker theme. The AI also helped me to rapidly refine the layout of the board, which requires certain spacing between the numbered positions.

Ultimately, I created System Breach, which has its instructions and parts assembled within a printable PDF.

Social Image Web App

Recently, I needed to quickly make a social image and only had my phone at hand. I could do it, but I needed an app and it wasn’t fast.

When the excitement had passed, I tried building an AI bot to do the job. Actually, I tried several bots running on different models.

None were trustworthy and I deleted them in frustration. They couldn’t resist doctoring the original image.

I told a friend about my frustration and he suggested using AI to build a web app instead.

Over the weekend, I worked with AI to code, test and deploy my own version that creates various image sizes and offers a text overlay option.

Automated portfolio

Finally, vibe coding unlocked for me the opportunity to use Python and GitHub to create an automated portfolio tool. It scans my employer’s website daily and updates a list of my recent work.

Ironically, this portfolio is less about “look what I’ve written,” and more about “look what I can build now.” It demonstrates that the barrier between a “cool idea” and a “shippable asset” has never been thinner.