What a week. If you've been around here for a minute you know I love the stories where AI does something genuinely beautiful rather than just impressive. This week delivered that.

A guy with zero medical training used free AI tools to design a cancer vaccine for his dying dog. And it worked. A completely fabricated metal band got exposed as AI, then hired real musicians to play the tracks live in Tokyo. And Google decided that if "vibe coding" changed how we build, "vibe design" should change how we create.

In today's recap:

Let's dive in 👇

When a reader's question becomes a vibe-coded website

A couple of weeks ago I got an email from one of you, asking a really thoughtful question. His church team had been wrestling with something that I think a lot of us are quietly thinking about: how do you navigate using AI and tech tools when you're also trying to be a good steward of the earth?

Because let's be real. The compute behind all of this, the data centres, the energy, the cooling systems, it's not nothing. And if you're someone who cares about sustainability (which, if you're reading a newsletter called The Conscious Church, I'm guessing perhaps you do), then you've probably had that tension too. You want to use the tools. But you also want to know who's doing it responsibly.

The question was basically: are there companies out there actually doing good stuff with sustainability? And where do I even start looking?

Now here's where it gets fun.

I'd already been wanting to properly test out vibe coding, — this whole movement of building websites and apps by just describing what you want in natural language and letting AI generate the code. It's been on my list to try with a few specific tools and see how far you can push it, specifically with a certain type of website and hero image section.

So instead of just replying with a list of links, I thought: why not turn this into a real project? Test the tools I've been wanting to test, but with an actual purpose behind it.

And that's exactly what I did. My response to the question was a fully vibe-coded website. I directed the prompts, curated the research, generated the imagery, designed how everything would sit on the page — but the actual code? All AI-generated.

Not perfect but a decent way to display data from the web, and it took a couple of hours max (whilst I was doing other things), wild!

🙌 Stay Curious, Stay Conscious, Stay Wild
Josh

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Image Source: Paul Conyngham / The Australian

Recap: Sydney AI consultant Paul Conyngham's rescue dog Rosie was diagnosed with mast cell cancer and given months to live. He wasn't having it. He chained together ChatGPT, Grok, DeepMind's AlphaFold, and a university genomics lab to design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine from 350GB of tumour data. No medical training. No biology degree. Just AI tools and a refusal to give up on his dog.

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Conscious Take:

Forget the benchmarks for a second. Forget the funding rounds and the corporate drama.

A guy with no medical training stitched together free AI tools and gave his dying dog a real shot at life.

Sometimes the best use cases and stories come from wonder, exploration, and even desperation and devotion.

If that doesn't stir something in you about where this technology could go when it's aimed at the right things, I don't know what will.

Recap: A producer going by "Kage" used Suno AI to create "Neon Oni." A completely fictional Japanese metal band with fake member bios, a Tokyo location, AI generated music videos, merch, and a growing Spotify fanbase that hit 80k monthly listeners. Then Reddit spotted AI generated hands in the videos, traced the creator to Europe, and blew the whole thing open. But instead of disappearing, Kage recruited seven real Tokyo musicians to perform the AI tracks live.

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Conscious Take:

I love everything about this story. Is it a bit dodgy? Yeah. The deception part isn't great.

But here's what's interesting. Songwriters have always written for other artists. Cover bands exist everywhere. Session musicians bring other people's compositions to life every single day.

Neon Oni might just be the weird AI era version of that model. One person builds the brand and the sound with AI, and real musicians bring it to life when it clicks.

It also flips the "AI is taking our jobs" narrative completely on its head. In this case AI created the opportunity and humans got hired to fulfil it.

The future of creative work might look nothing like what we expect. And honestly? I'm here for the weird stuff.

Image Source: Google

Recap: Remember when "vibe coding" became a thing and suddenly everyone was building apps by just talking to AI? Google is betting the same shift is about to happen for design. They've overhauled Stitch, their AI design tool, into a voice enabled infinite canvas that takes you from a rough idea to a clickable prototype in seconds.

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Conscious Take:

As someone who's been vibe coding basically everything lately, this feels like the natural next step.

The gap between "I have an idea" and "here's a working prototype" keeps getting smaller. First it was code. Now it's design.

Google calling it "vibe design" is a bit on the nose. But if Stitch delivers on even half of what they're promising, designers and non designers alike are going to have a field day.

If this email has been helpful, would you forward it to one person this week who might be interested?

Could be a friend in ministry, a creative who's curious about AI, someone trying to figure out how to build with Kingdom purpose.

I'd love to see this grow and reach more people. And honestly, personal recommendations mean way more than any algorithm.

Thanks for reading. Really.

"Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters." — Colossians 3:23

Build with the tools. But build for the right reasons.

Stay conscious,

Josh

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