What happens when a designer with almost no coding experience picks up an AI tool and starts building a working product prototype – and then a staff engineer has to make sense of it all? In this episode of SEEK Bytes, Elliott Millar, Seamus, Arnav and Staff Engineer Helen Giapitzakis dive into “vibe coding”: using AI agents, context and prompts to build software by feel instead of by hand.

This episode's special guest: Helen Giapitzakis (SEEK Staff Engineer)

In this episode, we explore:

• How a SEEK designer used AI to go from idea to clickable prototype, put it in front of real users, and only pulled in engineers when things started to wobble

• Why “vibe coding” changes who can build software – and what that means for engineers, from assisted coding and context engineering to owning standards, readability and long-lived code

• The surprising ways LLMs misunderstand intent and rules (especially negatives like “never use any”), and how teams can use positive, shared guidelines and repo-level “AI rulebooks” to steer them

Whether you’re in software engineering, UX, product, data, mobile, platform or IT leadership, this episode will get you thinking differently about who codes, how AI fits into real teams, and what “good” code even means in an AI-first world.

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