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Hello Guys,

Since AI is so hot right now, I thought we should have a thread about it on Nairaland.

Though I used AI for writing some boilerplate stuff(e.g.regex) and generating ideas, my AI coding awakening started when I asked DeepSeek to generate a todo list app using Pygame, which was not designed for that purpose, and it gave me working code. That's when I realised that AI coding was a big deal and it became my main interest. I soon discovered that ChatGPT o3-mini was more reliable and used it to practice coding.

My Favourite AI Coding Tools Today:

* Cursor and Claude 4: The smoothest agentic experience I've had. It writes, tests, debugs, and designs code smoothly and efficiently.

* Gemini 2.5 Pro on AI Studio: Best for making big changes and solving major issues after other models have failed. You just upload all your buggy code, tell AI Studio what's wrong with it, let it cook, and then download the fixed version. It can also optimize the code. It's free!

Two modes of AI coding:

* VIbe coding. You ask the AI to write the code, then you test it, then you keep telling it what to change until you're satisfied. If the AI gets stuck, you ask it to explain exactly how the code works and what seems to the root cause(s). Then you tell it to go after the root cause(s).

* AI-Assisted Coding: You write the code, but use AI to support you by suggesting ideas and code, reviewing your code, testing it, etc. AI-Assisted coding is much cheaper and more pleasant than pure vibe coding because you don't get into loops like AI often does when it's in charge.

AI-coding Tactic I'm currently Trying

* Meta Prompting: Write an AI prompt to create a ______ app. Ask me *repeatedly* about *everything* you plan to include in the prompt until you know *exactly* what I want. Then write it.

Please share which AI workflows are working for you and what you've built with AI.

Successfully vibe coded 3 projects that have been deployed

Lovable for front end

Gemini 2.5 pro and Chatgpt 4o for functionality. Cursor and Claude are also good, but Gemini and GPT already does enough for me

Trying to learn AI automation, can you recommend a good source

Great one

Na now you just dey wake? Ai has been in existence for many years now

Okay. Nice !

classicben3:
Na now you just dey wake? Ai has been in existence for many years now

A whole Seun of Nairaland na him you dey talk to like that o. lol

Can AI help make Nairaland spam bot work right. Right now almost any post gets blocked.

It keep getting better....

Op the asterisk in your post is very common in AI generated content.

I hope your post isn't AI generated.

What is AI?

This thread looks AI generated.

AI is gradually taking over. People will soon use AI for everything.

Everyday247:
Op the asterisk in your post is very common in AI generated content.
I hope your post isn't AI generated.

AI is now ubiquitous!

Vibe coding has made the lives of developers alot easier and coding faster

Can AI help our president, Governors and Leaders get it right in Nigeria

I've been vibe coding since chatgpt first came to light and now I use cline and roocode to vibe code using Gemini 2.5 api and sometimes claude on openrouter. I've been able to do great with these and yes, this is the future.

A worthy thread at last. I be think say una don throwaway the Tech-related threads for this land.

Tips:
Don't try to vibe code a serious project with a language you have zero ideas about.

I vibecoded a complete startup product for UK 🇬🇧 companies.

The thing is, you still need to be familiar with coding, you must be at least a beginner level programmer, if not AI model will keep taking you round the corner especially when they exhausted context window lenght. Or they might even expose your API keys if you don’t know what you are doing.

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This is a great move.

I have developed about 3 apps with vibe coding. This is intriguing because I am not an expert programmer, I can only write "Hello World" with Python.

I recently LockedIn to Ai Automation and the experience has been awesome.

Ai is indeed the future of things.

Vibe coding is perfect for building solutions that already exist it’s just an LLM. I think the impact would be felt more for frontend devs cause most people just need basic frontend solutions, however if ur building something new using ai is a pandora box. I remember working on something sometime in the past I already came up with a reasonable solution I understood but not perfect. I tried copilot for the problem and spilled something that looked reasonable and worked, however, when I started scaling the solution I started experiencing crazy bugs, started to review the code and realized it was rubbish designed to look right. I had to pull out the whole copilot generated code and started from scratch

wazzihu:
Trying to learn AI automation, can you recommend a good source

I think YouTube is a very good source of information on Ai Automation.

There are full 3-4hrs long courses/tutorials on Make, N8n etc that will brush you up and help you start.

Do give it a try.

Interesting thread, I like stuff like this

Dear People, the next Programming language is English Language. I develop apps and AI Agents.

ChatGPT
Germini
DeepSeek
Claude Sonet

Lete check something...

I ise AI to write stories.

Generating idea and modifying.

It's a good tool... If you know how to use it.

Use AI but don't let AI use you...

A loyal servant but not such a good master

I just completed a project for a client(restaurant in Philly) to improve and automate their workflow using python and code.gs in App scripts which i know absolutely nothing about, normally use R and little bit of css and html. Helped me out from start to finish even with the whole debugging process to set it up and client was happy. So yeah it helps out and been helping out peeps from inception despite it's fuckup sometimes which you're able to spot if you know the particular language.

It’s really amazing how much work I get done using AI. models I’m currently using
1 gpt o4 mini high
2 Claude sonnet 4
2. Gemini 2.5 pro

Aremson14:
Vibe coding is perfect for building solutions that already exist it’s just an LLM. I think the impact would be felt more for frontend devs cause most people just need basic frontend solutions, however if ur building something new using ai is a pandora box. I remember working on something sometime in the past I already came up with a reasonable solution I understood. I tried copilot for the problem and spilled something that looked reasonable and worked, however, when I started scaling the solution I started experiencing crazy bugs, started to review the code and realized it was rubbish designed to look right. I had to pull out the whole copilot generated code and started from scratch

Summed up perfectly.

AI is good until you need it to fix a complex bug, it starts asking silly questions and making crazy hallucinations.

I can never use Claude, I use Deepseek as a coding partner and copy paste what I need, I never grant AI codebase access, I love complete control and don’t wanna forget syntax too.

What do you mean by "the next programming language is English language?"

chijike:
Dear People, the next Programming language is English Language. I develop apps and AI Agents.

ChatGPT
Germini
DeepSeek
Claude Sonet

I don't know if I use ai to learn backend instead of going to a bootcamp