Yes, you can vibe-code. Here’s how to get started.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Work is full of time-sucking, tedious or annoying tasks, particularly when you’re on a computer. I used to spend hours on stupid chores like reorganizing someone else’s messy spreadsheet.

Now, I use artificial intelligence to whip up programs that handle these tasks. What some people call “vibe coding" is a powerful way that AI can boost your efficiency and reduce work irritations. You don’t need any programming experience because AI will do all the programming for you, and even coach you through the process.

You can create a mini-program, known as a script, with a prompt as simple as, “Write a script that adds YYYY-MM-DD to the beginning of every file name in a folder, based on when it was created." All you need to start vibe coding is a general-purpose AI platform like ChatGPT or Gemini. In a regular chat session, you tell the AI the problem you want to solve or the tool you need, and then it generates the code. (More on what you actually do with that code later.) Once you’ve created a script that solves your problem, you can use it anytime you need it.

You may have heard about tools designed for vibe coding, like Claude Code, which offer many more features and capabilities. But for most people, it’s wiser to start with simple scripts you copy, save and run yourself. Vibe coding can sound intimidating, but it’s quickly becoming a common work tool for nonprogrammers—just like image creation and document layout used to be the exclusive domain of designers, but is now something many people do for themselves.

Here are some examples of some simple tasks you can do to start vibe coding—and then instructions on how to get going. • Merge files. It used to take me a few days to get all my