How Vibe Coding Saved My Life! by Charles Handler

Presentation Description

I will tell my story of various points in my professional career where technology allowed me to get out of difficult situations and help me up my game significantly. These center around my lack of ability to work with things that I had/have the mental capacity to execute well, but was on the road to ruin because of my inability to code.

I will then touch on current state of vibe coding. I will talk about how vibe coding is an extension of my past tech-trouble escape experiences.

I will espouse my ideas that vibe coding will be a transformative force in the future of jobs- giving those who can’t code but have amazing ideas use AI to execute economically viable products that will allow them thrive in their professional careers as we see more job displacement by AI and a job market that is currently a discouraging mess.

I will describe a few projects I am working on.

One idea I have- if there is time- or I will make time by keeping the front end of the talk brief- is to ask the audience to come up with ideas for a simple app- choose one- and see how far we can get creating the app in Base44 in real time. What fun this will be!

Presentation Details

Date:
11/11/2025
Time:
2:30 PM
Location:
Upstairs Theater

Presenter Biography

charles handler
Charles Handler (Co-Facilitator and Panelist) is a renowned Industrial and Organizational Psychologist with a deep specialization in talent assessment, hiring practices, and AI driven workforce transformation. Charles currently serves as a science advisor to several startups- helping embed his knowledge of organizational psychology into AI based talent platforms. Charles has consistently reached audiences within and outside of I/O with messages focused on best practices in the use of assessment. Through his writings with various media outlets such as the Electronic Recruiting Exchange, his role as an analyst for Bersin and Associates, and his on-going speaking efforts, Charles has reached large audiences of talent acquisition professionals with practical and understandable education on best practices for assessment. Charles began the Science 4-Hire podcast in 2019, changing the name to Psych Tech @ Work in 2024. He holds a doctorate in I/O psychology from Louisiana State University and is a fellow of the Society for Industrial/Organizational psychology.