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A 100%. There is too much storytelling about these things being magic. There is no magic, it is the SV way to raise funds. These are tools, maybe good for some things. But they are terrible at other things and there are no boundaries. Companies just want to cash in.

OK thanks.

Thanks for the clarification.

Does this mean that my codebase gets cloned somewhere? Is it your compute or mine, with my cloud provider API keys?

I love your video, it is very clear. I am building in this space so I am very curious and happy about all the products coming in to help the current tooling gap. What is not clear to me is how Async works, is it all local or a mix of local or cloud since I see "executes in cloud" but then I see a download-able app.

I see a lot of information on API endpoints in the README. Perhaps that is not so critical to getting started. Perhaps a `Getting Started` would help, explaining what is the desktop app and what goes into cloud.

I have been hosting online sessions for Claude Code. I have 100+ guests for my session this Friday. And after "vibe coding" full time for a few months, I am building https://github.com/brainless/nocodo. It is not ready for actual use and I first want to use it to build itself (well the core of it to build the rest of the parts).

It's a set of contextual, small, prompts. GitHub based workflow. I experiment with these to create a couple web apps a month.

These days, I record product details, user journey, etc. with voice, and kick off the product technical details documentation process. Minimal CLAUDE.md. GitHub based workflow for software development process. I am struggling with generating good CI workflows, on it.

Here is my playbook: https://nocodo.com/playbook/

So you mean to say you have never seen a founder launch a software that had bugs?

And also, I am not selling Let's Order. I am selling vibe coding, building a product around it, content and coaching - and yes I have customers for this.

I understand people getting mad. I am an engineer, 16 years of building products. I would be mad if I had a cushy job in the US which I felt is under threat from AI. I switched to vibe coding because I see the benefits for the rest of the world, which most engineers with cushy jobs never cared about. And there is money in this for someone like me, driving this solo from a life that is far away from VC funded startups.

You are not being snarky at all. I am sure the bug exists. There are a few out there and I still have not gotten to fix them.

This is nothing to do with LLM generated. I work on about 4-5 projects at the moment, https://github.com/brainless. All of them are to test how far LLM driven development go. This, along with time to daily reach out to people, create posts, host lessons on vibe coding: https://lu.ma/user/brainless

I will get these bugs sorted when I get some time. Let's Order is not a commercial project, it is an exercise to show what a solo founder can get done these days with LLMs.

I love what is happening in this domain, so many people experimenting. Thanks for sharing this.

I recently launched https://letsorder.app, https://github.com/brainless/letsorder.

100% of the product (2 web UI apps, 1 backend, 1 marketing site) was generated by LLMs, including deployment scripts. I follow a structured approach. My workflow is a mix of Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Qwen Code or other coding CLI tools with GitHub (issues, documentation, branches, worktrees, PRs, CI, CodeRabbit and other checks). I have recently started documenting my thoughts about user flow with voice and transcribe them. It has shown fantastic results.

Now I am building https://github.com/brainless/nocodo as the most ambitious project I have tried with LLMs (vibe coding). It runs the entire developer setup on a managed Linux server and gives you access through desktop and mobile apps. All self-hosted on your cloud accounts. It would basically be taking an idea to going live with full stack software.

I did not understand something: why did CodeRabbit run external tools on external code within its own set of environment variables? Why are these variables needed for this entire tooling?

I have thought of this issue quite a few times. I use Claude Code, Gemini CLI, etc. for all my new projects. Each of the typical CLAUDE.md/GEMINI.md file exists. I do not use MCPs. I ask agents to use `gh` command, all my work happens around Git/GitHub.

But text is just that, while scripts are easier to rely on. I can prompt and document all mechanisms to, say, check code format. But once I add something, say a pre-commit hook, it becomes reliable.

I am looking for a human readable (maybe renderable) way to codify patterns.

I had the same doubt early on, I had asked Claude and checked this:

https://docs.rs/sqlx/latest/sqlx/macro.query.html#offline-mo...

Looks like we are supposed to check them into version control.

Are you sure of queries in `.js` files? Or do you mean `.rs` files?

  grep -r -i --include="*.jsx" --include="*.tsx" "SELECT\|INSERT\|UPDATE\|DELETE" ./adminapp

  grep -r -i --include="*.jsx" --include="*.tsx" "SELECT\|INSERT\|UPDATE\|DELETE" ./menuapp

Thank you. Making bank means I will have to do something I never did - make a sale or two. I am an engineer and trying founder for more than a decade. Always struggled to keep things in balance.

Things changed dramatically in the last few months. I can enjoy my super cheap nomad life of $200 / month while I build and market all my ideas, without working over 40 hours a week.

No, it is not live yet. I am launching this hopefully in a week.

I will not be surprised if there is but that is not a problem that cannot be fixed with some effort. The point is if we can produce deploy-able, full-stack apps, which are manageable, this changes what it means for software and for startups.

I live in a remote village in Himalayas, WB, India that I am sure no one on HN has heard of. I got 5G based broadband that is flaky just a few weeks back. By the end of this year, I am sure I will be able to attempt 4-5 products and market them more than I have ever done in my 16 years of professional life.

Software development has changed, forever.

I stopped looking at my code about 2 months back. I am launching "Lets Order", a micro SaaS, entirely generated by Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Google Jules, etc. I follow a structured approach, using issues on GitHub, Git branches, etc. - as I have done as an engineer for more than a decade.

Rust (backend) and TypeScript - Admin app (for managers), Menu app (for guests) and marketing site. SQLite database with LiteStream for backups. Basic tests, CI/CD.

All this - solo, in 10 days. Plus I market a lot more than I have ever had time.

- Source code and GitHub issues: https://github.com/brainless/letsorder

- Site: https://letsorder.app

I am sure there are parts that will break, but what I am getting out of a Claude Pro $20/month in value is a dream. I am generating a couple other products in parallel too, all sources available.

I honestly think this is some system failure, even a Claude based one. I hope someone in the Claude Desktop team sees this and reaches out to you. Cheers!

Tools that generate code will have a lot of competition. It's good that Athropic is refining it's pricing but would have been better if users got to know their exact usage and apply own controls.

Frustrated users, who are probably using the tools the most will try other code generation tools.

Lovely post @antirez. I like the idea that LLMs should be directly accessing my codebase and there should be no agents in between. Basically no software that filters what the LLM sees.

That said, are there tools that make going through a codebase easier for LLMs? I guess tools like Claude Code simply grep through the codebase and find out what Claude needs. Is that good enough or are there tools which keep a much more thorough view of the codebase?

This is a very critical point. I think code generated by LLMs will lower code generation cost, that means mass produced software.

But: if we reduce cost, then can we not add deterministic guardrails in software that are also maintained at LLM speed and cost? This is pretty much what I am trying to understand. Choice of Rust/TypeScript in my projects in very intentional and you may see why.

This is an excellent point and one that I am chasing. I do not want software (at least ones I produce) to be inferior than what I would hand code. LLMs give me huge velocity but I am still learning where to put guardrails so it keeps quality to what I would do myself.

Now the critical point: what if my own quality is inferior to many others. I think we will have this issue a lot since LLMs can generated code at 10x speeds. The quality will be what the human operator sets. Or, maybe, more and more tools will adapt best practices as guardrails and do not give humans much option to steer away from them.

I have not thought about it, it is one of the things on my list. But my understanding was that developers copy code from Stack Overflow, as an example. It is not "my" code but I still am the author. Or lets say I ask my friend to add code and she/he simply passes over the code to me. I author it in my name.

The "barely" part may be important and I would like to know what others are doing.

I am so sorry, it was not intentional at all. I had asked Claude Code to keep a placeholder video. I did not even know what "rick rolling" means. Just searched and understood what I have done!

I am using Claude Code full-time for about 6 weeks* with the $20/month subscription. I am trying out building different products from ideas I have already had. It frees me a lot of time to talk about my founder journey.

I have not needed multiple agents or using CC over an SSH terminal to run overnight. The main reason is that LLMs are not correct many times. So I still need time to test. Like run the whole app, or check what broke in CI (GitHub Actions), etc. I do not go through code line by line anymore and I organize work with tickets (sometimes they are created with CC too).

Both https://github.com/pixlie/Pixlie and https://github.com/pixlie/SmartCrawler are vibe coded (barely any code that I wrote). With LLMs you can generated code 10x than writing manually. It means you can also get 10x the errors. So the manual checks take some time.

Our existing engineering practices are very helpful when generating code through LLMs and I do not have mental bandwidth to review a mountain of code. I am not sure if we scale out LLMs, it will help in building production quality software. I already see that sometimes CC makes really poor guesses. Imagine many such guesses in parallel, daily.

edit: typo - months/weeks

I am on the fence with these topics because I have years of fear drilled into me. These topics are a taboo and I have rarely ever tried anything at all. The experiences did not ruin me, they made me more curious about my brain in a positive way. But the social taboo lingers.

What surprises me the most is that we have accepted sugar, alcohol, cigarettes and a ton of mass manufactured food which are harming us. I am struggling with high blood glucose for 12 years. Yet, the substance which I can grow in my* own backyard and may actually not be as harmful is just brainwashed out of my limits.

edits: you to me

I have a very different experience. I have built https://github.com/pixlie/SmartCrawler almost entirely on Claude Code with some usage of Google Jules. Even all GitHub workflows are from CC. I still have tokens left since I try multiple other ideas in parallel.

I have coded a few landing pages and even a full React Native app with the same Claude Pro account in the last month. I do not consider this huge usage, but this is similar to a couple months of my own programming with AI assistance (like Zed + Supermaven).

Please note: SmartCrawler is not ready for usage, you can surely try it out though but I am changing the inner workings and it is half-complete.

Also, there are many branches of code that I have thrown away because I did not continue that approach. Example, I was trying a bounding box way to detect what data to extract, using the HTML element's position and size on browser. All coded with Claude Code. Generating such ideas is cheap in my opinion.

I have a question around pricing:

I am using Claude Code almost exclusively. I am using the Claude Pro subscription and it allows Claude Code usage, with limits on the number of prompts per 5 hours, according to their site. I have not hit these limits yet even though I use this full-time, daily.

With other tools, do I have to pay API based costs or are there ways to use my subscription? As I see it, the API costs add up quickly. That means we can be stuck with a few tools from the top tier model companies.

I have been using https://github.com/Aleph-Alpha/ts-rs to generate TypeScript types from Rust for quite a while now. Very happy and it has a lot of good impact when doing large refactor to the API. Claude Code also selected this automatically for a full-stack app I was experimenting.

It has been about 4 weeks that I am only vibe coding. I am building https://github.com/brainless/SmartCrawler and it has been an interesting journey. Being an engineer I always find it easy to stay focused on development and not so much on users, marketing, story telling.

Now I am getting a lot more time to focus on creating content about my journey and sharing it. Test coverage is still pretty bad but I do not feel the generated product is worse than it would have been if I coded it with or without LLM assistance. Right now, I barely see generated code.