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title: Live Vibe Coding using Others' Ideas
date: 2026-03-21T22:51:50+05:30
categories:
  - llms
  - talks
description: AI-assisted talk preparation becomes far richer when you opportunistically incorporate live discoveries and other people’s ideas instead of over-planning everything in advance.
keywords: [vibe coding, talk preparation, design festival, improvisation, idea synthesis, AI creativity]
---

I spoke today on [Design in the Age of Infinite Generativity](https://sanand0.github.io/talks/2026-03-21-design-in-the-age-of-infinite-generativity/) at the [Chennai Design Festival](https://www.chennaidesignfestival.com/).

You can read about the talk in the link about. This post is about my preparation.

![](https://files.s-anand.net/images/2026-03-21-live-vibe-coding-using-others-ideas.avif)

- Tue 10 Mar 2026. Damn! [Palani](https://www.linkedin.com/in/palramu/)'s asked for the topic. [Claude, what should I talk about!?](https://claude.ai/share/46ef75be-6e38-4ea6-ab73-49f7e46e1ec0)
- Fri 20 Mar 2026. [ChatGPT, tell me who the other speaker are](https://chatgpt.com/share/69bed4d0-14ac-8003-8750-2648b81d9366).
- Fri 20 Mar 2026. Oh, I'll just pull a bunch of links, [use browser tabs as slides](/blog/using-browser-tabs-as-slides/), create some [slide dividers](https://tools.s-anand.net/slide/), and I'm ready!
- Sat 21 Mar 2026 1:00 pm. I'm **NOT** ready! The story doesn't flow. It's rubbish.
- Sat 21 Mar 2026 3:00 pm. Let me drop some of the boring ones. I just have 15 minutes.
- Sat 22 Mar 2026 3:30 pm. Oh, maybe I should listen to what the others are saying, just... you know...

... and that proved the _best_ decision ever, because [Senthil](https://www.linkedin.com/in/senthil-gopalan-05935719/) of [Payir](https://www.payir.org/) showed a [re-usable fabric calendar](https://thinaistore.myinstamojo.com/product/fabric-calendar-hanging-model-reusable) that converts into a bag. It was a fantastic idea, so I got curious.

- 3:40 pm. [Asked Claude for more ideas like Senthil's](https://claude.ai/share/f9f8bce9-bb29-4795-b5c1-8faa7eca4dfe). It looked fine and I could read it later, but what if... maybe... I **presented these ideas**!?
- 3:45 pm. [Ask Gemini to draw the first idea - a Modular Kolam Mat](https://gemini.google.com/share/c201f58b95b3). The results look _fantastic_!
  ![](https://sanand0.github.io/talks/2026-03-21-design-in-the-age-of-infinite-generativity/modular-kolam-1.avif)
- 3:50 pm. Now I'm going ga-ga over the idea. I generate images for 3 more ideas: a growth chart kurta, seed library sari border, and recipe towel.
- 4:15 pm. [Narendra](https://www.linkedin.com/in/narendraghate/) shares a bunch of cool PsychOps design hacks like:
  - When lights are dimmed people speak softer. So, dimming lights reduces sound levels in noisy offices.
  - Rather than reduce the size of shampoo sachets (which customers and business both hate), include 2 shampoos in one sachet, tearable in the middle.
  - Price saches at 95p with a 5p deposit for the sachet - which rag-pickers can collect and return to the retailer.
- 4:20 pm. [Ask Claude for more ideas like Narendra's](https://claude.ai/share/74c27359-7710-463e-8488-60fef2df6bfc). The results are _just as fantastic_!
  ![](https://sanand0.github.io/talks/2026-03-21-design-in-the-age-of-infinite-generativity/expired-medication-color.avif)
- 4:30 pm. I now have images for his ideas too. Now, I start deleting my more boring links.

In fact, these ideas ended up being _so_ good that the bulk of my talk was just about ideas derived from their work. (I'm obviously a big fan of plagiarism!)

Despite being one of my shortest talks (~10 min), this worked quite well because people value speed and spontaneity. I was _obviously_ demonstrating these and that felt cool.

For many years, I've been live-coding on stage. But that requires a _lot_ of preparation.

Vibe-coding makes live-coding a _lot_ faster. I can do it _during_ a client demo. I can do it _during_ a talk.

So, I'm going to listen more to what others are saying (in meetings, conferences, etc.) and live-vibe-code from what they _just_ said. Great way to show-off while learning from others!

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**26 Mar 2026**: On a related note, [AI has better product development ideas than humans](https://x.com/emollick/status/2036104905568452967). Read [Serendipity by Design: Evaluating the Impact of Cross-domain Mappings on Human and LLM Creativity](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.19087)