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# It's Not Vibe Coding If You Know What You're Doing


- **Date:** Thursday, Sep 24, 2026
- **Time:** 13:30–14:00 (30 min)
- **Room:** Stage 6
- **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America

## Description

We've all heard stories about how people are using AI to create entire software projects, and in every case, I had nothing but skepticism and doubt.
Until I tried it.
Let me show you how I build collectyourcards.com, from the ground up, in less than two weeks, without writing a single line of code. We will talk about effective prompting, toolsets, and the do's and don'ts of coding with AI.

## Speakers

### [Sean O'Dell](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@sean-o-dell)

Developer Experience at Dynatrace
### [Jeff Blankenburg](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@jeff-blankenburg)

Principal Developer Advocate at Dynatrace


## Related talks at this congress

- [Beyond Vibe Coding: Using CLI Tools as Your AI Counterpart in Pair Programming](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1721-beyond-vibe-coding) — Ron Veen
- [Beyond the Vibe: Specs, Adversarial Review, and Engineering AI Development that Scales and Ships](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1900-beyond-the-vibe) — Ussama Baggili
- [Physical AI: 5 Things You Can Build That Aren't Another Chatbot](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1815-physical-ai-5-things) — Vini Senger
- [Vibe Coding Accessibility](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1438-vibe-coding) — Karl Groves

## Watch remotely

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