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…
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