ASC Labs – Vibe coding to simplify your life

Hand-drawn pencil sketch of a person sitting at a desk using a laptop, looking at a wall split into two workflows. On the left, the “old way” shows spreadsheets being copied, edited, and pasted between systems, labelled as slow and error-prone. On the right, a “better way” shows simple tools using DuckDB in the browser, represented by a duck icon, processing Excel and CSV files into clean, reusable outputs with benefits like saving time and improving accuracy.

Most of us process data the same way:

Copy it into a spreadsheet → do something to it → paste it somewhere else.

It works, but it is slow, repetitive, and easy to get wrong.

In this ASC Lab, we will show a better way.

Using tools like DuckDB running in your browser, we will “vibe code” simple, standalone tools to work with Excel and CSV files quickly and repeatably.

We will cover:

  • Loading and working with Excel and CSV files
  • Querying and transforming data using DuckDB WASM
  • Building small tools you can reuse again and again
  • Using AI to help you write and refine code as you go

If you have ever thought “there must be an easier way to do this” this session is for you.