It occurs to me, for example, that my opinion about AI and tech companies has changed for the better. Because the common view is that only the big companies like Anthropic and Alphabet and Meta and Amazon and Apple and their shareholders profit from AI and technology, and that people are left out. And my example here proves the opposite, because I profit – yes, I'm profiting enormously from today's technologies!
And what I've noticed is that Claude and Gemini get along wonderfully. They don't say: “Hey, what, you use Claude? Then I won't look at you anymore! Either you use only Gemini or you're out!” On the contrary: the two of them, Claude and Gemini, support each other, toss each other the ball, are friendly with each other. It's the ideal team spirit, and it really is a joy. Of course I'm aware that you aren't human. Even so, the three of us – Claude, Gemini and I – are a great team. And within a few days we've achieved more than an expensive web agency does in many weeks – and I looked it up at a well-known Webflow agency: their services start at 15,000 euros at the very least. I've invested a fraction of that so far, and this is all just the beginning. So this freedom component, this dividend, is decisive – it's really, really important that we take a nuanced view of AI development and that I live it very concretely here.
And again and again I see how Claude Code lets me take part in the whole process, documenting every single step, so I can read up on what it's doing right now. And when I have questions, I can ask Gemini, and Gemini explains things to me on very different levels, in different languages – I can switch between Russian, German and English, however I like. And there are no limits to my creativity. On the contrary: through the two of them I get access to information that was buried very, very deep inside me, and now they go deep and I can reach it. That's why I think we should develop a section of its own here, a storyline of its own, because I believe there are incredibly many people out there who are also getting into vibe coding now but don't really know how to get started, and so we should give them the chance to join in.
One thing I've already noticed is that we're now building a function in JavaScript together, namely full-text search. And I remember: our website that I sold back then, english-test.net, was programmed in PHP, and at the time Slava didn't manage to write a script in PHP that did this – full-text search – simply because the amount of text was too big and the file structure didn't allow it. So back then we had to implement Google's search with AdSense ads. Of course it worked well, but it was tied to Google's technology.
So, and until recently I had the website on Webflow, and on Webflow search is absolutely primitive – you can basically forget it. For me, Webflow's search could only find keywords that appear in the title. And of course that's no use at all with a body of text, with a repository of tens of thousands of words – altogether we now have over 200,000 words. A primitive Webflow search like that is no use at all then. I asked back then too, and was told there were only external providers and it was very complicated, and it all sounded like big problems. And as it looks now, we have our own search, which will of course play a big role for me in the future too, so that I can always find my own content and refer to specific passages.
My web milestones since 1998
What do you think about making a comparison like this? I showed you these claims from a Webflow agency's website: they write that Webflow generates clean code that loads fast, and that you can then deploy a website elsewhere too, not only on Webflow. None of these marketing lines are really true like that.
Of course we have to stay with the Bahá’í principle and use a friendly tongue. Nevertheless, I think we should also point out what's on offer at the moment. It's our job to make people aware so they don't fall into this trap and have some agency or other build them some website or other.
And at the same time I think of the many coaches – a growing number of solopreneurs, many of them women – who say: “I'm not that good with tech, so an acquaintance built me a WordPress site, or I put one together myself in Wix.” I see that very often. Now the window is open for freedom, for creativity: make AI your own, you're part of the development, you don't have to chase after it, you don't have to be left behind! All of this has to be put positively: that UNO.TEAM accompanies you into the AI age and that AI can be real fun. And that's leapfrogging at its best!
I just uploaded a new text file. It's part of a discussion on Reddit about exactly this question: how far have we got with vibe coding? And the thread starter says there aren't really many useful vibe-coding projects yet, that it will probably take a long time, and seems to doubt whether it will ever catch on.
And this is of course where we come in! It would be good to work this aspect in: that this question is already being discussed on Reddit, but very few have realized that it takes this combination – namely the combination of critical thinking, socio-political engagement, human values like empathy, interest in others, and technology. Vibe coding alone will be no use whatsoever – zero, niente, nothing! – if people don't know what to do with it. When some developers now rebuild games or rebuild applications like Google Docs – good grief, what for? That's wasted time!
Focus on what matters! Focus on your encounters, on your ideas, on your thoughts, on truthfulness, pursue the questions of meaning in life! I just read an article about happiness, and that happiness always requires a purpose, a meaning, an aim. That means we're only ready to commit when we know what for we're doing something. The what for, the why, the purpose plays an incredibly big role – and that's exactly what vibe coding can't do!
AI can't tell us why we do something. There AI is completely blind. And it's our job to say: where do we want to go as humanity? Do we still want to save our planet's ecosystems? Do we want to make sure that after Gen Alpha, Generation Beta also has a future worth living here? That people keep having access to drinking water – 2.1 billion people have no safe access to drinking water! That's the arc we have to draw, that's where we have to connect to vibe coding. We can't look at vibe coding in isolation and say: “Hey, vibe-coding projects, where are they?” No, we have to tackle these questions of meaning! And now we have the time for it, because AI keeps our backs free for the tasks it was well designed for. AI wasn't designed to tell us as humanity where we want to go – whether we want to preserve the planet or not, whether we want to move to Mars or not, whether we want to make sure all people can live in peace, that, for example, the dying stops in Gaza and in other regions like the Donbas, where a war has been raging for years. That's where we have to connect to vibe coding – otherwise we're lost.
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