78-Year-Old IBM Vet Beats TikTok Teens at Vibe Coding by Just Vibing
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- ā¢Lewis Dickson, a 78-year-old former IBM tech consultant, has embraced AI and vibe coding since 2024.
- ā¢He built AI voice apps for an AED company and impressed their CEO with his demo.
- ā¢Lewis also teaches seniors, including a 100-year-old student named Sue, about AI technology and semiconductors.
Meet Lewis Dickson, the 78-year-old tech wizard who kicked off at IBM in the '70s using Morse code tubes and now vibe-codes AI apps like a Silicon Valley gym rat on espresso. After decades consulting a Fortune 500 in Atlanta till 2024, Lewis swapped retirement boredom for AI playground. He dived headfirst into Emergent's full-stack vibe coding to build an AED voice app prompting CEOs to 'light up' faster than their defibrillators. Meanwhile, 100-year-old Sue got a crash course on semiconductors - using AI video trips from vacuum tubes to transistors - so seniors now run their newsletter using AI-generated memes and shopping hacks. Proof that gray hair can out-code Gen Z while silently judging their TikTok dance skills.
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(1 of 3)78-year-old IBM Morse code OG vibe-codes AI apps and teaches centenarians semiconductors. Meanwhile, millennials still ask how TikTok works.
Lewis Dickson is out here pulling data from websites and turning it into AI voice apps while most kids canāt even update their Instagram bio.
When your grandpa effortlessly builds AI apps but still lets you win at Mario Kart just to keep your fragile ego intact.
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 3/9/2026 | Author: Lee Chong Ming
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