Any time I share my collection of tools built using vibe coding and AI-assisted development (now at 124, here's the definitive list) someone will inevitably complain that they're mostly trivial. A lot of them are! Here's a list of some that I think are genuinely useful and worth highlighting: OCR PDFs and images directly in your browser. This is the tool that started the collection, and I still use it on a regular basis. You can open any PDF in it (even PDFs that are just scanned images with ...| Simon Willison's Weblog
Beyond Vibe Coding Back in May I wrote Two publishers and three authors fail to understand what “vibe coding” means where I called out the authors of two forthcoming books on "vibe coding" for abusing that term to refer to all forms of AI-assisted development, when Not all AI-assisted programming is vibe coding based on the original Karpathy definition.I'll be honest: I don't feel great about that post. I made an example of those two books to push my own agenda of encouraging "vibe coding...| Simon Willison's Weblog
Part 3 of our "How to Learn to Code in an AI World" series.| The JetBrains Blog