Code Illusion

I was excited to finally have a new side project to work on, and naturally, I wanted to vibe code. So I fired up Cursor.  For the rest of this post, I’m going to refer to Cursor as “him”, because it genuinely felt like I was pair-programming with a very confident senior software engineer — the kind who types extremely fast and never doubts his decisions.  The Design   I asked ChatGPT to create designs for:  The home page User dashboard  Login page  Forgot password page  Sign-up page  I provided the theme colors and a one-line idea for the project.  ChatGPT’s first response was… an HTML file with all the styles embedded inside it. Not exactly what I had in mind. Since I didn’t want just code, I politely asked it to generate actual design images instead. After a few iterations, I was able to finalize the UI and download both the HTML and styles. This was a surprisingly interesting experience for me. In the past, when I had an idea for ...