[davebren]

> was able to vibe-code an MVP of our product that we've been working on in a matter of hours. > Given a little more time, I could solo ship and maintain what has taken us a few years to build as a small dev team.

Sorry but this just sounds fake. Team spending a "few years" rewriting a web app, Claude doing it in a matter of hours. What the hell were you guys doing the last three years.

[cub-creature]

Yeah, good question. It's certainly not fake, we've been working on this rebuild for the last few years, but maybe Claude's ability was a bit embellished.

> What the hell were you guys doing the last three years.

I believe some call it "development hell"? We were working hard every single day, yet poor management, dev turnover, and poorly defined scope led to a constantly broken, constantly refactored system. Too many cooks, and no chef. Our small company is full of inexperienced people, including PMs, who had never taken on a project of this size or scope.

To be more clear on Claude's role: I didn't vibe-code the "final product" we've been aiming for in a few hours. I built a limited feature-set MVP, consisting of a front-end, and a new API on our existing back-end. Claude was able to take our existing models, with a few tweaks I described, and build new controllers and a new front-end for a handful of the features we've been working on migrating over to the new system.

Realistically, I gave it the well-defined soft-ball features. I don't know how it would perform given the more complex features, especially when it would need to integrate with its existing work in an extensible way.