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Vibe Coding: How I Used AI to Build a Mobile App — Until Compliance Broke the Flow

(Originally Published on Medium.com)

I love to cook, but I rarely have recipes for food I like to eat (Asian, Mediterranean, etc.). When AI assistants hit the mainstream, I found myself prompting them for simple recipes from my favorite dishes or low-sodium, low-sugar recipes for others using whatever ingredients I had on hand or excluding the ones I didn’t.

Copy-pasting those outputs into Apple Notes worked for a while, but soon I had an unindexed mess. That’s when the idea struck: why not build an app that bridges recipe generation with structured storage? My Head Chef was born — and it became my test case for Vibe Coding.