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Today, Dr. Nicky shares what she experienced at the cool Animal Facts conference and we look at a growing trend.

Non-developers vibe coding their own apps instead of buying them from actual developers.

I figured you might have opinions.

I'm Jason Howell.

I'm Whitwood, now.

Let's start with what you need to know with a big story.

Yeah, I knew this would be a fun discussion with us both when, for those who don't know, is an actual developer.

So this is going to be a real cool kind of opportunity to get, you know, a sense of how developers feel about this trend, which is not necessarily like a big, big story today, but it was something I came across.

I was like, well, this is a big theme.

And so why don't we talk about it?

TechCrunch does have a story today that you can read.

It's good one, good one. It takes a closer look at vibe coding as it's come to be known. That is,

instead of understanding the fundamentals of developing with actual code, people can now turn to

specialize chatbots and just, you know, tell them what to to create what the idea is and iterate on

those ideas through voice and text inputs instead of actual coding tech crunch

focuses on a number of examples in the article of everyday people choosing to vibe

code apps that are tailored to their specific needs instead of hunting them down, say, in the app store.

The apps that they're creating aren't necessarily intended to become successful consumer products.

That's a big part of this article, and the point of this article anyways, but rather solutions to their own personal needs.

So, you know, call them micro apps or personal apps or even fleeting apps because the

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