Vibe Coding: Exploring the GenAI Coding Wave with Du'An Lightfoot

Du'An Lightfoot, AWS Developer Advocate, joins the vBrownBag crew to talk about how he went from frustrated tinkerer to confident builder. He'll demonstrate his actual workflow, and live-code a project using nothing but vibes and Amazon Q Developer. Come see how and why anyone with ideas can now be a developer. Chapters: 00:00 Introductions 02:49 What is vibe coding? 03:42 The importance of our foundational knowledge 07:12 Getting a high-level overview of your project 10:53 Digging deeper into specific implementations 17:30 Amazon Q Developer builds a website from scratch 25:22 Amazon Q Developer deploys the website to AWS 34:11 Documenting what it did 49:45 How Q Developer works Resources: https://twitter.com/@labeveryday https://www.linkedin.com/in/duanlightfoot https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/code-security-scanning-with-amazon-q-developer/ https://x.com/KanikaTolver/status/1902488505109848176