The ‘Vibe Coder’ Who Wins Hackathons Without Knowing How to Code

The ‘Vibe Coder’ Who Wins Hackathons Without Knowing How to Code

An anonymous reader shared a report from the San Francisco Standard highlighting Rene Turcios, a 29-year-old who has won over 200 hackathons in San Francisco without knowing how to code. Instead of writing code, he uses AI tools like ChatGPT to generate programs, a method he calls ‘vibe coding.’