Vibe coding apps taught me how hard real coding is

PCWorld explores the reality of "vibe coding" with AI tools, where the author attempted to build four apps using Claude Code and Google's Antigravity. Only one Docker Swarm dashboard succeeded after a week of effort, while three OpenClaw replications failed due to vague prompts and poor planning. The experience reveals that AI-assisted development still requires significant human creativity, detailed blueprints, and specific instructions to avoid "garbage in, garbage out" results. Like so many others, I jumped onto the vibe coding bandwagon, entranced by the idea of building my own incredibly useful apps with nothing but an AI prompt. Over the course of about six weeks, I did manage to build my own apps-four of them, to be precise.