How I Built My Portfolio Fast with Vibe Coding

For years, I’ve known I should build a personal portfolio website. As a data scientist with a computer science background, I had the skills to do it: choose a stack, design the UI, write the code, set up hosting, configure deployment… the whole thing.

But like many developers, I kept putting it off. Either the site didn’t feel polished enough, or I didn’t want to get bogged down learning deployment workflows before I was truly ready to publish.

Then I discovered vibe coding. And in just one shot, I had a beautifully polished website that looked exactly how I imagined it.

The Spark: Discovering Vibe Coding 🌱

It all started with the Vibe Coding 101 course from Replit and DeepLearning.AI.

The term itself—vibe coding—immediately grabbed me. And it really is a paradigm shift. Instead of grinding through syntax and setup, you focus on what you want to build—the vision, features, and user experience—while your AI coding partner handles the how.

It’s like having a senior engineer at your side, instantly translating your ideas into working code.

My First Experiment: A One-Shot Prompt ⚡

To put vibe coding to the test, I opened https://replit.com and typed the following prompt in the textbox:

“Create a beautiful and geeky personal website for me using information from my LinkedIn profile.”

Instead of spitting out something generic, Replit’s AI agent took it further. Using the improve prompt tool, my simple request became:

"A beautiful and interactive personal portfolio website with a geeky aesthetic, featuring a dark theme with pink accents, professional profile section with bio and skills, interactive project showcase with hover effects, contact information and social media links, plus geeky design elements like terminal-style text, code snippets, and tech-inspired animations."

And the result? Honestly stunning.

The Results ✨

In minutes, not days or weeks, I had a fully functional, polished portfolio:

🎨 Dark, GitHub-inspired theme with neon pink highlights
🖥️ Terminal-style animations (typing effects, glitch transitions)
🎭 Smooth hover interactions and code-inspired design
📱 Responsive layout that looks great on any device
⚡ Modern tech stack: React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS

This wasn’t a prototype—it was a site I could confidently deploy. And I didn’t have to spend hours agonizing over pixel-perfect details or deployment quirks and with a few clicks, my website got deployed to https://aseda-addai-deseh.replit.app instantly!

Later, I’ll edit it to reflect my current role, projects and details. But what amazed me most was how one-shot vibe coding produced something so polished that I’d been putting off for years.

Why Vibe Coding Changed the Game for Me 🎯

Traditional development would’ve required:

Setting up the environment
Picking and configuring frameworks
Designing from scratch
Writing hundreds of lines of code
Debugging across browsers
Handling deployment

With vibe coding, I focused on vision and feedback. The AI agent handled execution.

Key Takeaways

💡 4 lessons I learned from vibe coding:

Prompting is everything – the difference between vague and specific prompts is night and day.
Iteration matters – treat AI like a collaborator, not a vending machine.
Focus on the big picture – brand, experience, and functionality.
AI amplifies creativity – it doesn’t replace it.

Looking Ahead

For me, vibe coding wasn’t about skipping the hard work—it was about finally getting from idea to polished product without the friction that kept me stuck.

If you’ve been putting off a project because it feels too big, too messy, or too time-consuming, vibe coding might be exactly what you need.

The future of coding isn’t just writing lines of code—it’s collaborating with AI to bring ideas to life faster, better, and with more creativity.

🔗 Ready to explore it yourself? Check out the Vibe Coding 101 course from DeepLearning.AI and Replit.

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