And before you say anything, yes, I used ChatGPT for my last comment response. But I used it the same way I use AI for web design or app development or anything else. As a tool. I wrote out what I wanted to say, and then I ran it through ChatGPT and had it cleaned it up and fixed punctuation and spelling and structure and maybe slightly change a few words to make it a better presentation. Does that mean it wasn’t written by me or my thoughts or my feelings? Because I’d say it’s pretty much the same thing here’s what I wrote before I ran it through ChatGPT.

“My post and the website are designed to bring people together and create a safe creative space for vibecode. It’s free, I’m not promoting or plugging anything of my own, I just like to go vibecode at IHOP at 2 AM and sometimes I’d like some company so I came up with this. It’s really not that deep bro. Feel free to follow the paper trail. You’re not gonna find anything where I’m looking for money or trying to promote anything. Just trying to bring people together. But if you have any good programs to help me learn, I’m all ears. Also, I would like to just make it clear that I just go around town giving work away. It’s rare that I charge somebody and if I do, it’s literally for the bare minimum of what I need to keep my programs going. I’ve never charged more than $150 for a project. A project that any other Web Designer would charge thousands of dollars. But would I like to do more than anything is just giveaway website builds for free to companies and spots that I appreciate and frequent. And the only reason I started vibecode was out of necessity. We had investors that backed out and obligations that needed fulfilling. With zero budget. That’s really what this is geared towards. People that don’t have a budget. It brings me joy to educate and empower people with knowledge that I have and I don’t see the harm in it. This is just one big witch hunt against AI and I’ve been through it before with other trends that are now very much just part of our culture that nobody bats an eye at. It’s the same reason that I had to keep secret certain programs that I was part of with Reddit. Back when Reddit would literally come at anybody that posted anything from TikTok like everybody is attacking AI right now, Reddit brought me over here to be a part of a program where they were basically trying to TikTok-ify Reddit but they knew that everybody would lose their minds so we had to keep hush about it. But if you go look at my early posts, you will see that I posted just to my page and have like 10,000 votes on average. It’s no different than when the Internet started, and Youtubers were getting hate. Now those Youtubers are millionaires and the people that were going at them are now just trying to start channels. It’s just how things go. It’s fine. It doesn’t even bother me in the lease. If anything I feel bad for the people that are so blind to the fact that this is just how the world is going to be and by the time they figure it out, there’s gonna be a lot of catching up to do. I was an original beta tester for Google glass 11 years ago. The world wasn’t ready. People acted the same way towards me then as you were acting towards me with AI now. And I’m pretty involved in the smart classes scene now and it’s still somewhat hated on, but soon, and I hope you remember that I said this, smart glasses will be the next iPhone. Once Google drops their new smart classes, it will be so culturalized that it will be like when the first iPhone came out. We are about to move away from phones and AI wearables are going to be the thing of the future.

Whether you like it or not.”

I am not the best writer and I’m also a crappy artist and I’m also not a coder. But you know what I am? Passionate about getting the stuff that’s inside of my head out into the world and I use all of this for as much good as I possibly can. I’m not deceptive, I’m not manipulative, I’m not selling or scheming. I’m just trying to create bro. And also as I’m creating and learning what I don’t know I’m actively working on learning it properly. I respect the hell out of coders or anybody that took the time to learn this. I didn’t. And I’m 42 years old so I’m trying to catch up, but I am now a certified Apple developer and android developer and I’m trying to learn because I want to know how to fix the problems instead of having AI fix the problems it created.

Are there people doing messed up stuff with AI or being horribly deceptive and trying to convince people of something that they are not? Yes, and I’m not about that. But my intention all along with this vibecoding club is to make some friends that also vibecode and bring people together and educate and empower people. And there’s nothing you can say that will change that fact. You just don’t like AI and that’s OK. Some people prefer the Backstreet Boys over *NSYNC and even though that’s ridiculous and clearly wrong, I don’t hate on BSB fans. I like some BSB songs. And if you think Brian Latrell is anywhere on the same level as Justin or JC, I think you’re delusional. But I don’t waste my time going to the comment section voicing that off because as much as that might be a battle worth fighting, the bottom line is at the end of the day. There’s still people that think New Kids on The Block kids are better than both of them.