Priscilla Chan says she and Mark Zuckerberg place limits on their daughter's vibe coding

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Mark Zuckerberg's daughter is vibe coding. Her mom isn't vibing with the open web.

The Meta CEO has long set tech restrictions on his children. In 2019, he told Fox News that he liked that his kids could video chat with their extended family, but didn't want them to sit in front of a computer "for a long time."

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In a Monday profile about her husband in Colossus, Priscilla Chan showed Jeremy Stern her daughter's account on Replit, a vibe coding platform. While she lets her daughters explore, Chan said she limits the kinds of apps they can build.

"She's quite limited, because Mom doesn't let her build things that are open to the internet," Chan said.

Chan walked through some of her daughter's vibe-coded creations, like a messaging app. There were also apps similar to GeoCities and the game FarmVille, according to Colossus.

Like her father, Zuckerberg's daughter seems to have an entrepreneurial spirit. Each app included a plan for marketing and sales plan.

Other things were off limits. "She wanted to build a dating site," Chan said. "That was a no."

Zuckerberg's children have long been experimenting with AI tech. In 2024, he said that his daughter was 40 pages into writing a novel about "mermaid crystals" with AI-generated images. (It's not immediately clear which of Zuckerberg's three daughters was vibe coding. August, their middle child, wrote the mermaid book.)