Author builds and deploys AI-powered personal dashboards and news aggregator

11 articles · Updated · The Wall Street Journal · May 3

Using Lovable, Replit and Claude Code, the non-coder created a San Francisco commute tracker and tech-news app, spending $45 plus monthly fees and using the dashboard for bus timing.
The project relied on plain-English prompts, APIs for data such as Oura stats, weather and SFMTA arrivals, and eventually GitHub and Cloudflare Pages to host a web version.
The article presents “vibe coding” as a growing way for beginners to make real-time monitoring tools, while noting frustrations, credit limits, subscription costs and occasional technical hurdles.

As 'vibe coding' turns anyone into a developer, what are the unseen risks lurking in AI-generated code?

As AI is projected to build 75% of new apps, is the era of the professional human coder coming to an end?

With employees now creating apps from text, how can businesses prevent the rise of a risky and ungoverned 'shadow AI'?