TBD Tries... Vibe Coding
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4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
One of artificial intelligence’s most hyped “abilities” is how it writes computer code. So much so that seemingly anyone can do it. So we figured… why not us?
Guests:
Greg Lavalee, Slate’s Chief Technology Officer.
Clive Thompson, contributing writer for the New York Times
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, totally. |
| 0:07.5 | Hey, what's up, man? |
| 0:08.9 | Yeah, he's over there. |
| 0:10.2 | I know. |
| 0:10.7 | Yeah, I'm not just talking to myself over here. |
| 0:13.7 | A few weeks ago, one of our producers, Evan Campbell, sat down with our colleague Greg. |
| 0:20.1 | You want me to go like this? Yeah, if you don't mind. I can do that. Just leaving in a little our colleague Greg. You want me to go like this? |
| 0:21.6 | Yeah, if you don't mind. |
| 0:22.1 | I can do that. |
| 0:22.7 | Just reading it a little bit. |
| 0:24.3 | Greg is not just any colleague. |
| 0:26.8 | His last name is LaValley, |
| 0:28.3 | and he is the chief technology officer here at Slate. |
| 0:32.2 | Evan wanted his help with a little vibe coding. |
| 0:38.0 | So, yeah, I was telling you before this, I have been trying to mess around with Claude |
| 0:43.1 | and I don't really have any experience coding. I tried to like learn C-sharp maybe like |
| 0:48.5 | two years ago to mess around in unity and I gave up almost immediately. |
| 0:53.7 | Vibe coding suddenly feels like it's everywhere. |
| 0:56.7 | It's the idea that anyone, even someone with no coding background, can use agentic AI, like |
| 1:04.4 | Claude Code, to program for you. |
| 1:07.2 | You could say, hey, build me a game. |
| 1:09.7 | Or, hey, build me an app that organizes my life. |
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