Ian Mulvany

September 14, 2025

Notes on vibe coding 1 - this is pretty amazing - tool to help my son learn about circles.

Yesterday I made a mini app for my son to learn about circles. He's 13 and is doing equations for circles in school. I thought I'd tell him about conic sections, and the I thought, could I get an app built that does that. After a little ping ponging between Claude and GPT, I got something pretty neat. 


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You can play with it here - https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/e9f3834a-6f39-41b6-8b4d-5429ec8ff5a6 

Of note - it took me about 16 iterations to get this to where I wanted it to be, but I did that within about half an hour. 


About Ian Mulvany

Hi, I'm Ian - I work on academic publishing systems. You can find out more about me at mulvany.net. I'm always interested in engaging with folk on these topics, if you have made your way here don't hesitate to reach out if there is anything you want to share, discuss, or ask for help with!