Vibe Coding with AI: Non-Developers building apps (with Helen Giapitzakis)

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This episode explores how non-developers can use AI tools to build software prototypes and the implications for software engineering.

What happens when a designer with almost no coding experience picks up an AI tool and starts building a working product prototype – and then a staff engineer has to make sense of it all? In this episode of SEEK Bytes, Elliott Millar, Seamus, Arnav and Staff Engineer Helen Giapitzakis dive into “vibe coding”: using AI agents, context and prompts to build software by feel instead of by hand. This episode's special guest: Helen Giapitzakis (SEEK Staff Engineer) In this episode, we explore: • How a SEEK designer used AI to go from idea to clickable prototype, put it in front of real users, and only pulled in engineers when things started to wobble • Why “vibe coding” changes who can build software – and what that means for engineers, from assisted coding and context engineering to owning standards, readability and long-lived code • The surprising ways LLMs misunderstand intent and rules (especially negatives like “never use any”), and how teams can use positive, shared guidelines and repo-level “AI rulebooks” to steer them Whether you’re in software engineering, UX, product, data, mobile, platform or IT leadership, this episode will get you thinking differently about who codes, how…

People in this episode

Hosts: Elliott Millar, Seamus, Arnav

Guest: Helen Giapitzakis

Topics covered

• AI in software development
• vibe coding
• non-developers building apps
• collaboration between designers and engineers
• AI tools for prototyping
• software engineering standards

Keywords

• AI tools
• software prototyping
• vibe coding
• non-developer
• collaboration
• engineering standards
• LLMs
• context engineering

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: SEEK, SEEK Bytes

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