The Who and Why

I'm Andrew Landau, a developer, coder, and learner. I've created this space to be a platform for my education, my "autotutorial" as I like to call it, which will help me learn web development from the ground up.

I am full of ideas for apps and webpages that I would like to build. As of starting this project, it's 2025, so vibe coding is the way of the future. But! While vibe coding is a skill of it's own, vibe engineering is another thing entirely, and vibe engineering requires depth of knowledge.

So, here I am. This is me, acquiring depth of knowledge. We live in a time where pretty much everything we could ask for is easy to acquire.

• You want something to pass the time? Here's an infinite social media scroll.
• You want some music to listen to? Here's a curated playlist (albeit with the same songs that spotify thinks you like over and over again).
• You want an app to help you accomplish some goal in life that doesn't exist anywhere? Don't worry! Just explain it with natural language to an Agentic AI software, and voila! You didn't even have to do any work to create it!

But that's not satisfying, is it? Not really. The novelty of being able to create anything without much effort is a massive dopamine hit. It's like magic.

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

But it wears off quick. I want to actually understand things. When I do, I'll be happy to use AI to help me make them faster -- but I want to understand what it did and how it did it, and of course I want to be able to engineer the ideas, not just ask for them and hope for the best.