I tried vibe coding in BASIC and it didn't go well

I'd rather code it myself!

With the rise of LLM systems (or “AI” as they are annoyingly called), the term “vibe coding” is all the rage recently. Vibe coding is when you rely almost entirely on these “AI” system to write your code for you via a series of drawn-out conversations.

Putting on my cranky old man hat, I find most of it rather frustrating. Now I’m not some retro-sycophan…