Joanna Stern

We should vibe code this conversation about vibe coding and see if we can make the website an interactive column and put it on the wallstreetjournal.com.

I just put in this prompt to Claude Cote.

I'll read you part.

He said, I'm writing an article for The Wall Street Journal with my colleague Ben Cohen.

The idea is that Ben and I go back and forth in the story to debate the merits of vibe coding.

The whole story is done with little chats back and forth, looking like iMessage chats with our photos.

Please design a webpage for this article.

It did that.

It designed a Wall Street Journal page, what it thought it should look like.

It took some liberties with our logo and everything.

But everything that sort of came beyond the top header was honestly 50% of the way there of what we actually published.

So when we sent this to some of our in-house folks, Brian Whitten, who's one of our computational journalists, Audrey Valbuena, one of our designers, they had some notes.

I have built many of these types of projects here over my years at The Wall Street Journal, working with our development team, working with our great graphics and design team.

And projects like this can take weeks if it's a really big project where you've got a lot of deep reporting and you need it to look really perfect.

This, as we were saying, took seconds and two days to get from start of idea to finish.

It's the idea that you can have these agents doing various tasks for you at the same time, like you would have a team.

He has a sort of good system that works across all of the devices.

And he told us he launches it, he's like, fix this issue or make this new feature.

And so these agents, these clod codes, are just working on that while he's getting ready for work and while he's commuting to work.

He's constantly managing his multi-clod team.