The Reality of Vibe Coding: How I Built a Web App Without "Writing" Code

I have a confession. I have a B.Tech in Computer Science. I understand programming concepts. I can read code and mostly understand what it does. But I did not write the code for my website in the traditional sense. I built the entire thing using Google AI Studio. Prompt by prompt. Component by component. And it works. It is live. Real people use it. Let me tell you how. What I Built A personal finance calculator platform for Indians called MonuMoney.in. It has 36 financial calculators (8 fully functional right now, 28 being built), a blog, SEO setup, and the whole thing runs on Next.js 15 with Tailwind CSS deployed on Vercel. The calculators do real-time EMI calculations, SIP return projections, income tax computation based on Indian tax slabs, retirement corpus planning, and more. This is not a toy project. The calculations need to be accurate because people will make real financial decisions based on the numbers. What Vibe Coding Actually Means There is a lot of hype around "vibe cod