How I Built a Full-Stack Web App at 57 Using AI — A Vibe Coding Story

How I Built a Web Application at 57 With AI Assistance — A First-Hand Account My name is Jovica. I'm an electrical technician by training — graduated in 1987, specializing in automation and computing. For the past twenty years, I've worked as a production manager in the textile industry, leading teams of anywhere from ten to a hundred people. The last time I seriously wrote code was over forty years ago, in Basic, on machines that looked like spacecraft technology at the time. Then I decided to build a web application. Why Now? It wasn't some dramatic decision. I noticed a concrete problem — investors building or renovating properties in Serbia have no single place to track the procedure, required documentation, and institutions they need to deal with. The bureaucracy is complicated, deadlines get missed, documents get requested at the last minute. I thought: this could be solved with an app . And then I thought: but I don't know how to build apps . And then I remembered that Claude ex