I’ve been building web stuff since 1994. I’ve been around sites, SaaS and all the rest for decades. God, I was there for the heyday of Flash. I’ve been part of teams, programmed stuff myself, managed devs, designed products, all of it. Over the last 5 days (DAYS!!) I took a personal idea from zero to completely operational. It runs on Vercel & Neon, has db recovery, full security audits, makes use of 3rd party APIs, has Sentry error reporting, has test environments, test suites, scaling strategies, everything a legit web app needs. 5 days. By myself. 🤯 At any other point in history this would have taken months, with a multi person team. In my last position we had a team of 4 that spent nearly 6 months implementing a new SMS integration. And it fucking sucked. The tools we have now are mindblowing. It really helps to know what is going on and vibecoders won’t know the right questions to ask, but if you do have that experience and understand the details, the stuff you can do is nothing short of a miracle. People complain on here all day about how much AI messes stuff up, or they blow through their limits in a prompt, or how it produces garbage, but that is just not my reality. I did a serious, well-structured and very nice looking web app with hundreds of revisions and rebuilds within 75% of my weekly Claude limits, all on Opus 5 or Fable 5, xhigh. There were times when I (through my experience) had to ask the right question to end up with the most efficient and reliable result but on the whole it damn near one-shotted almost everything I asked of it. Learn the questions to ask, research best practices and READ the output (which many people complain about) because you will actually learn a lot along the way. AI kinda sucks in the sphere of deepfaking and nudifying and slop images and fake writing but for this kind of work it’s an incredible resource. submitted by /u/nndscrptuser
Originally posted by u/nndscrptuser on r/ClaudeCode
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