Episode Followup – 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