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by tobyhinloopen 18 days ago
A non-technical employee of a client vibe-coded an app and I was asked to review and deploy it.

It was okay, not bad at all. No serious issues.

At the same time, me feeding a whole PDF of feedback from a client - screenshots and such - into Claude, and it fixed everything after 7 hours of reproducing and fixing things mostly unattended, creating a bunch of MRs with fixes. Most fixes were good, some were obviously not what the client wanted but technically correct (which I told Claude and it fixed it)
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namanyayg 18 days ago
Yup it's gotten good enough that it mostly works (thats why i built my startup around this idea)
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tobyhinloopen 18 days ago
It’s interesting though because the client’s dev team basically refused to look at it, dismissing it as insecure and such.

I realized that the software he had made was actually better than what I would have made, because he understood the problem better than I ever will, Because it was his job to understand the problem, not to write code.

It was the first time I realized that AI can totally replace me in my traditional job of trying to understand client’s wants and needs and convert them into an application by writing some code.

I knew Claude was powerful and spent months creating skills prompts etc but this guy did it from scratch.

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namanyayg 18 days ago
Amazing and industry-changing. Is he able to update it by himself now?
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tobyhinloopen 18 days ago
Not sure yet. I’m monitoring it.

However, it is totally viable for internal tools, rapid prototyping, experiments, etc.

Frankly, there’s no faster or cheaper way to get such feature rich apps, and it was certainly better then what a cheap agency from far-away would produce.

Not only was the code better, the whole product was better than what I would have made (before coding LLMs), because he understood the domain, and AI filled in many details that I wouldn’t spent time on. (Again, pre-LLM)

I’m just… multiple times a week I’m sitting at my screen like, wtf will I do? What will my job be? I have plenty of time to think about it while Claude basically handles everything I throw at it.

Good thing I spent months learning to apply skills and such so my value is “experience with using LLM tools” (:

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