> You can vibe-code a throwaway UI for investigating some complex data in less than 30 minutes. The code quality doesn't matter, and it will make your life much easier.
I think the throwaway part is important here and people are missing it, particularly for non-programmers.
There's a lot of roles in the business world that would make great use of ephemeral little apps like this to do a specific task, then throw it away. Usually just running locally on someone's machine, or at most shared with a couple other folks in your department.
Code doesn't have to be good, hell it doesn't even have to be secure, and certainly doesn't need to look pretty. It just needs to work.
There's not enough engineering staff or time to turn every manager's pet excel sheet project into a temporary app, so LLMs make perfect sense here.
I'd go as far to say more effort should be put into ephemeral apps as a use case for LLMs over focusing on trying to use them in areas where a more permanent, high quality solution is needed.
Improve them for non-developers.