Nine Away, the custom website ChatGPT built for me in ten minutes to help plan a trip.
Kelsey Vlamis
Sam Altman taught me how to vibe code.I've spent the past several months reading my colleagues' excellent coverage on vibe coding and the many ways regular people, from firefighters to busy parents, are building creative solutions to simplify their lives.I wanted to try it myself, but my limited coding experience — editing HTML to customize my MySpace page as a teen and a computer science 101 course in college that I can't even begin to remember — deterred me, so I kept putting it off.That is, until this week, when Altman, cofounder and CEO of OpenAI, shared on X a prompt he put into ChatGPT from his phone:"use all my chat history to figure out ideas for a long weekend trip with 8 friends, plan the best three options, make a full-stack site where the 9 of us can coordinate on what we would want to do in each place and decide where to go, and then after we get to group agreement make reservations. draft an email in my gmail i can send out to my friends when the site is ready.""Okay," I thought, "I'll give it a shot." I copied and pasted the exact text, prompted ChatGPT, and, in under two hours, had a fully functioning website up and running with three trip options well tailored to my interests.Turns out the promise of vibe coding — that I, as a non-coder, could build custom apps and websites that are specific and useful to me without actually learning to code — might not be too good to be true after all. It just took the OpenAI boss to show me.
