Out of the Box · issue nº 01 — Do vibe coders ruin the world? Meet the new 300.

issue nº 01 · autumn 2026 · made in Europe free to read · free to share

Out of
the Box.

It’s just imaginary lines… and we draw them by ourselves.

our AI mag for thinking, feeling and laughing

The Vibe Coding Space zine · the community page

issue nº 01 · the theme

who this is for

People who want to understand what is happening right now — whether or not they build anything themselves. Teachers, NGO leaders, funders, journalists, the curious.

The tools live next door on vibe-coding.space. This is the part about why.

true story

Petar music producer · co-creator of vibe-coding.space · blind since 2025

▶ The founder story · videomeet the real Petar · coming with issue nº 01

01 · the person

A music producer lost his eyesight. Then he vibe coded.

In 2025 Petar went blind. Until that day he had made recordings for other people — melodies, sounds, arrangements, all produced by him. Then the software and the computers he had always worked with stopped being usable for him. He believed he would never make music with software again.

He did not give up. He started describing the software he needed to an AI, until it existed. His son Dejan sat beside him. Seven months later: PapoNox — screenless steering of Apple’s Logic, built by a blind man for blind musicians.

Then they wanted to share it with the world. And that is exactly where it got hard. No one to check whether it was safe. No place to show it. No fair way to sell it.

That is why this place exists.

story mode · on the map · in the makingWalk his way through the space. Five chapters, told by Json.build · check · show · connect · sell — every place a challenge → AIFIM · AI Research Institute for Humans ↗ · founded by Petar and Dejan

p. 02 / 24the person

02 · his way · the map

Petar’s story is not a text. It is a way through this space.

Every place on the map is a problem he had. We built the places in the order he hit them. Json walks it with you — five chapters, one challenge each.

01 buildHe described a tool until it existed.
02 checkNobody could tell him if it was safe.
03 showThere was no place to put it.
04 connectHe met Dejan. Then Gilda.
05 sellStill open. That is the chapter we are writing.

walk the map → story mode · in the making · opens with issue nº 01

p. 03 / 24his way

03 · the phenomenon

Petar is not alone. And that worries some people.

Two answers to that number. Laugh at the mistakes — or build the places where they get caught before anyone is hurt. We chose the second. The next pages are about who the mistakes will belong to.

p. 04 / 24the phenomenon

04 · the new 300

May we introduce: the new 300 million.

By 2030 an estimated 300 million people will build solutions for their world with AI — most of them never trained as developers. A teacher who wants a tool that fits her class. A small NGO that wants to run its own newsletter without a vendor. A journalist comparing documents without exposing sources.

They are building because something in their world needs repair. Right now most of them work alone — without anyone to check their work, and without a place to show it.

People who build software with AI · worldwide

Source and what is a projection +

The curve is our projection. Starting point: by July 2025, 20 million people had used GitHub Copilot alone (Microsoft, quarterly report, 30 July 2025); 36 million new developers joined GitHub in the year to October 2025 (GitHub Octoverse 2025). Anchor for the slope: Gartner, IT Symposium, October 2021 — citizen developers will outnumber professional developers in large companies 4:1. The figure of 80 % of vibe coders working alone is our own estimate from community surveys, not a published statistic.

p. 05 / 24the phenomenon

Json, standing, in a bordeaux cap and a #whoisjson shirt

05 · the accused

If they are so dangerous, put them on a cover.

WOGUE is our fashion magazine for people who build software in pyjamas. Three questions to the cover star.

WOGUE: Json, who are you?: Json: Ask around. #whoisjson
WOGUE: Are vibe coders ruining the world?: Json: Somebody built the world you are worried about. With a keyboard. In pyjamas.
WOGUE: What is the difference between you and a developer?: Json: An imaginary line. We draw those ourselves.

The full WOGUE issue — covers, dress code, the 300 in portraits — follows in the zine.

p. 06 / 24the accused

06 · the defence

Four people who think the 300 deserve better tools, not better jokes.

We are not a company first. We are people who sat next to a vibe coder when it got hard. Pixel faces by choice — the real ones are in the founder video.

Gildafounder · journalist · vibe coder
“I lived through every problem vibe coders run into — sitting next to Petar. This place is the answer I wished he had had.”
Lisachief technology · founder of CodeFactory Vienna
“Nobody should have to read 2,000 lines of code to know whether their thing is safe. That is a job for a tool.”
Petar & DejanAIFIM · co-creators · PapoNox
“We built it because we needed it. Then we needed a place for it. So we are building that too.”
Guidopeople · psychodynamics · ORF, ZDF, ARD
“The question is never the technology. It is what people become when they get to build.”

p. 07 / 24the defence

07the stance

„But ridicule is a poor form of safety.“

Gilda, from the essay of the same name · read it, 7 min

Ridicule teaches nothing.

Laughing at broken auth flows makes no AI assistant safer. It creates no review, no better defaults, no warning before deployment. It only turns a new class of builders into people we feel allowed to dismiss. Safety is a process, not a punchline.

Neither devil nor deity.

Demonising AI and following everything called “intelligent” with religious trust will both shape society. We want a place where AI is used as human-centred as possible — and where the people using it keep the judgement.

Power comes from having something to protect.

Most of these builders are not building out of arrogance. A kindergarten director wants a safer way to coordinate allergies and emergencies. That is who deserves professional tools — and, in the end, to be taken seriously.

The question is not consciousness.

Whether AI is conscious remains unsettled. What is settled: AI already takes part in how the world comes to mean something — it curates, weights, phrases. That is reason enough to decide as the most integral version of ourselves. The Architecture of Meaning, 8 min

what we build because of this

A place where people who build with AI can make sure their creations are functional, safe and visible — and then share and sell them. Five rooms: build, check, show, connect, sell. The first tool, a free check against the EU AI Act, GDPR and 8 known mistake patterns (beta), is open now.

See the space on vibe-coding.space →

08 · the verdict

The Council has heard enough.

The five pixel avatars of The Council, the judge in the middle

satire · disclaimer inside ▶ episode 01 · 31 s

“Not guilty. But in need of better tools. Court adjourned.”
— the judge, who has no persona and would like to keep it that way

sit in on the live council · on the map → read the essay it argues about

p. 09 / 24the verdict

09three ways in

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