Stephen Yu

One thing I've been preaching is that all this vibe coding has unlocked the ability to make bespoke tools and applications that solve that one problem in your life that it seems no one else has solved — or at least not at a price you're willing to pay.

About 6 months ago, I moved my gaming PC downstairs so the household could enjoy playing it on our TV. The only problem is, even with the latest-and-greatest of controllers (Steam Controller), there are just some games that require a keyboard.

Dom loves playing detective games, as well as doing family tree research for friends and family, so naturally The Roottrees are Dead is right up her alley.

The only problem is the gaming PC is under the stairs — physically not close enough to connect a keyboard, and a Bluetooth keyboard isn't an option either. I did some research into remote keyboards and found solutions ranging in price with varying levels of complexity.

So I did what any AI enthusiast would do and just vibe-coded a solution: "Make me a Windows application which starts a webserver that allows local-network devices to connect and type. These keystrokes are replayed to the desktop like a virtual keyboard."

A bit of back and forth (a double-typing bug, not being able to exit the application cleanly) and it was done in 15 minutes: Remote Typing.

That's absolutely insane — that I was able to make something in 15 minutes that probably would have taken me an entire day in the past, especially in a language I'm not familiar with, and with the painful back and forth of debugging (remember, it's a PC under the stairs, locked away in a shadowy abyss). An application where I'm the only one who really needs to benefit from it.

We really are in the age of do-it-yourself.