PCWorld Senior Editor Mark Hachman wrote about vibe-coding a Windows app with ChatGPT, describing how he built a competitor to Otter’s voice transcription service, which he pays about $100 per year for. He noted his company pays business licenses to both OpenAI and Anthropic for professional versions of ChatGPT and Claude, and that Claude seems preferred for coders, but he had noodled with ChatGPT for some time. The initial process was a little confusing, since he had seemingly two choices: create a Project, which would use ChatGPT’s “Pro” model, or simply “code” it within ChatGPT and use the existing Astra model. He tried both, calling the first app “HachTalk.” Hachman said his own AI apps have all the look and feel of a microwave dinner, while a truly great application is more like a chef-prepared meal, but nevertheless it works. He framed the effort around thinking, “Wouldn’t it be nice if my PC could do this?”—and then doing it, and said it’s time to start adopting that mindset.