{"id":120,"date":"2025-12-23T18:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T18:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pewter.app\/?p=120"},"modified":"2025-12-23T18:24:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T18:24:12","slug":"vibe-coding-and-a-moral-quandary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pewter.app\/index.php\/2025\/12\/23\/vibe-coding-and-a-moral-quandary\/","title":{"rendered":"Vibe coding and a moral quandary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I reached a logical near-completion to launch for Pewter &#8211; I have one component to put in before the app will fully complete it&#8217;s intentions &#8211; to book phone repair. I stopped because development costs reached a head when I put an offer in on some bricks and mortar; my own home. <br><br>App development for me has been about not software, a burning desire to be a businessman, but to consider, design and create applications. <br><br>Between then, my wife started to learn dog grooming and I said to her, confidently, I could put together a basic app to help her book customers. I regret offering but I&#8217;m happy on the journey it&#8217;s taking me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What AI?<\/strong><br><br><br>Google Gemini was sold to me the solution to help and when I started using it, the benefits were incredible. Am I coding apps? Am I building apps out of nowhere. No. <br><br>What I am doing is:<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Learning how flutter code is made up in dart, the syntax components of the app<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Troubleshooting basic errors in app development<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Deconstructing sections of code<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Learning how to pull widgets and update them<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Learning flutter prompts for development<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Looking up bulleting boards for content<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Learning constantly, new things<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Discovering how the building blocks of applications work (something I&#8217;d never fully grasped beyond a conceptual idea)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ok, so now the catch: AI is a massive moral concern for both resource consumption and the &#8230;.gosh future of mankind. This emerging technology is powerful as an educational tool but the data on how AI is consuming water, electricity even is a concern. <br><br><strong>What next?<\/strong><br><br>I am a fan of doing interesting, new, exciting things. I&#8217;m not full of hubris. What it costs everyone else is a huge part of my moral makeup and personality, which I hope goes into my design choices and learning trajectory.  Do no harm.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I reached a logical near-completion to launch for Pewter &#8211; I have one component to put in before the app will fully complete it&#8217;s intentions &#8211; to book phone repair. I stopped because development costs reached a head when I put an offer in on some bricks and mortar; my own home. 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