When I read about vibe coding to quickly create app mockups or even shipping an app to the App Store, I wonder if I could use genAI to vibe code a theme plugin for Micro.blog. That would allow me to use a unique visual theme inspired by my visual branding.

@numericcitizen I did that a while ago for a project, and to get a first version it worked really well. I’d give it a try!

@numericcitizen I am really close to releasing a web app and two iOS apps done with vibe coding. And have concepts for two more apps. It works really well if you treat the AI like an assistant or like the coder and you as the project manager.

@AlexKucera which AI did you use? Claude?

@hutaffe which AI did you use?

@numericcitizen I would second using Claude Code. You can run it in a terminal or load it into VSCode if you’re using that as an IDE. I tend to switch back and forth between those 2 approaches. I’m actually just about done building an MCP server for the micro.blog Books API – a mixture of my code and vibe coding.

@hutaffe Are you using the paid version? I’ll definitively consider Claude for sure.

@7robots I’ll consider Claude for sure. Are going to share your work with the MB community?

@numericcitizen yes, Claude Pro subscription. But I‘m considering switching to separate API usage because they‘re moving to a weekly limit instead of 24h. I would blow through that quickly and my week would be gone 😅

@numericcitizen yes. I just need to see how much more user friendly I can make the install process. Claude has recently introduced desktop extensions as an easier way to install local MCP servers, but it’s a bit half-baked at the moment. For now, installation of my MCP server involves using a few CLI commands involving python and uv.

@numericcitizen for coding I mainly use Claude Code extended with a bunch of MCP servers to keep the AI on track and avoid AI slip as much as possible.
For general more chat oriented AI tasks (writing, etc.) I use a bunch of models inside TypingMind.

@hutaffe I started with Claude Code on API usage and man it blew through my budget like it was nothing. The subscription windows of five hours are so much better for my budget ( and health as I am forced to take breaks). I just hope their new weekly thing is not as bad as it sounds.

@AlexKucera yeah, I quickly got very careful with API usage. Might switch to that temporarily sometimes though, because with the weekly thing I believe I would blow through just as quickly and would then sit around for days without access. Google seems to have more included, but my experience wasn’t that good. Might have to mix and match.

@hutaffe API usage can be dangerous. I recently added file system access to my chat interface so I could ask the AI to summarize and write conversations to disk. I asked it about how to create something in a script and before I realized it the AI decided to help me create the complete script and blew through $5 before I realized what was happening. With the subscription limit runaway prompts still happen, but are less critical because it simply stops at the limit and then resets. Of course, if the reset is in a week, that will suck.