Last week, AI blew my mind by creating a faultless PowerPoint presentation.

From a 3 line prompt, it executed 103 steps autonomously.

Those steps not only generated the presentation but:

  • Checked the slides

  • Re-arranged and spaced them

  • Converted them to images so it could ‘see’ them

I was using Claude 4.5 Opus (Anthropic’s latest model)

You can see the video here.

But - there’s a far more powerful use case for advanced AI models like this.

It’s much more than making your slides look pretty

And, will allow you to scale, almost infinitely.

The Ad-Hoc Trap

If you want to build momentum in life and business.

You need to spend as much time in ‘Flow’ as possible.

Flow activities are ones where you lose track of time, ones that you could do for hours, day in, day out.

In business, this could be writing content (like this).

In life, if could be playing guitar (mine are a bit dusty).

But, nothing knocks you out of flow like ad-hoc activities - with no value - that eat up your limited brain space.

And, when you don’t have someone to delegate those activities to, without realising it, you’ve spent half a day on work that stopped you moving closer to your goals.

Example:

Recently, I’ve been ghostwriting for a big client.

They’ve got a meeting transcript database that’s amazing for producing content ideas.

Side note - To give you an idea of how powerful transcripts can be, check out my interview with Nicolas Boucher - “The NEW way to use AI Notetakers in 2025 (it’s INSANE)” - here.

But some of their transcripts are 2 hours long!

Claude (my AI of choice) struggles processing transcripts of this length.

So in some cases I use Google’s NotebookLM which is perfect for Q&Aing large numbers of files.

The problem is, it didn’t use to accept the .docx file format the transcripts were in.

Have you ever tried converting 50+ docx. files to .txt files before?

Not fun.

And even if you don’t need to convert files, you’ll have some level of manual activity that adds up to days that you could have used to deliver client work (or find more clients) instead.

So what can you do?

Vibe Coding (with no coding skills)

Vibe coding is an AI-assisted software development approach where developers describe what they want in natural language, and AI tools (like Claude, ChatGPT, or specialized coding assistants) generate the actual code. The developer focuses on ideas and outcomes rather than writing code line-by-line.

Google in AI Mode

There’s a problem with this definition.

It says: “…where developers describe..”

Rubbish.

YOU can vibe code.

Especially when you have monster models like Opus 4.5 to assist you.

You’re literally getting to the point where if you can think it, you can build it.

Which is great news for small teams / small or solo businesses that can’t afford staff, and don’t have $1 mil sat in the bank for specialist consulting projects.

You’ve got a massive amount of leverage.

You can even code from your phone.

So, back to my file conversion problem.

Solved it in 30 seconds flat:

Me Asking Claude to Convert Document Types

Another more creative example?

2 months ago, I hosted a TEDx talk, and had to remember a tonne of intros.

Built myself a memory app (which ran itself in Claude) to turn the process into a game:

TEDx Memory App - Build with the Help of Claude

It even had a ‘Fill in the Blanks’ section (AI’s idea- not mine).

TEDx Memory Game - Fill in the Blanks

So how do you do this yourself?

How to Vibe

Path A

Just ask the AI.

For my TEDx app, I didn’t actually set out to create an app.

I just wanted it to help me write the cue cards.

But after it did that, I thought: “How can I make this more fun”

‘Vibe’ Coding after Having Claude Help Me Generate TEDx Cue Cards

Path B

This is more like the way a developer would handle something.

  1. Document your current process (or dictate it)

  2. If your process involves data:

    1. Find some example data files (that are in the wrong format or don’t display information in a way that you want)

    2. Create a version of what you want the finished data to look like (your output file)

  3. Sketch a wire frame of the final product (you can even draw this and give the photo to AI)

  4. Give AI the documentation / transcript, your example data, wire-frame and example outputs and ask:

”Here’s a process I want to automate using code in the simplest way possible. I’ve also included example data, and a wire-frame of what I want it to look like. Please ask me any question you need to ensure that the output is what I want”

AI Code Prompt 1
  1. When it asks you questions, answer them, and then end your prompt with:

”I am a total novice and need complete step by step instructions on how to do this from scratch. Please ask me ay additional questions on this basis before we move on to building”

AI Code Prompt 2
  1. Build ‘vibe’ together until you get to where you want

Pro Tip - If you’re getting errors, take screenshots of what you’re building and feed them back into the AI to troubleshoot. AI can’t see in the same way as we do, so I find that screenshots are better than text.

Examples from Me

Here’re some other use cases I’ve coded over the past few years

  • HubSpot imports & data merges (big win for event data)

  • mp4 to mp3 converter (for audio only Podcast platforms)

  • Still image capture (auto-generates still images from video)

  • Video splitter (for chunking up long form video)

Examples from Others

  • Kevin Roose (New York Times journalist) - Created multiple personal apps including "LunchBox Buddy" (analyzes fridge contents to suggest lunch ideas), podcast transcriber, and social media bookmark organizer.

  • Jack Fricks (Solopreneur) - Built multiple applications using vibe coding, including one that received a $1 million acquisition offer!

  • Peter Levels (Indie hacker) - Produced a functional flight simulator MMO (multiplayer online game) using vibe coding.

The Final Word

Naval Ravikant's philosophy on wealth centers on leverage:

Using force multipliers like:

  • Capital

  • People

  • Media

  • Code

To create wealth ‘non-linearly’, so you can move beyond trading time for money.

So have a think.

Where are you trading time for money (and doing activities that you absolutely hate)?

Then ask AI to help.

You’re only a few lines of code away from freeing up brain space. Brain space you can use to build the life and business you want.

Where will you start?

Until next time.

Adam

P.S - Have you got any use cases that I can code? Let me know, I’ll build it, and then send you the code so you can run it yourself (with an explainer on how I did it).

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