The day before yesterday I got a technical assignment from a company I was interviewing with to build a Next.js app. Normally I would build it myself, but that day it just felt so tedious, so I gave Claude Code a try. To my surprise, with little to no guidance (probably cuz it was React), it built the app and it even looked very similar to mock-ups the company gave. I changed some things here and there and submitted the task. The whole thing was done in about half an hour. Yesterday they emailed me to schedule the next interview. I'm hooked.
I turn 50 tomorrow and I love vibe coding. In the hands of an expert with decades of experience in all the internal corners of C, Python and Postgres I find AI tools to be miracles of technology. I know how to ask them exactly what I want and I know how to separate the goodness from the bullshit. If Supabase is bringing AI closer to the developer at the database level then that is a great thing.
Vibe coding is excellent if you have the experience to understand what the AI is churning out and then what to do with it.
The problem we have now is we have people who aren't engineers trying to make an app and they end up creating insecure and buggy messes, then struggle with figuring out how to deploy, or they end up destroying all their code with no recovery because they didn't know anything about version control.
Do you have any writings or materials that show your process in depth? I’m interested in learning from those who know how to really squeeze the juice out of these tools.
I agree with this - I hear a lot of hate towards vibe coding but my experience with voice dictation and using 20 years experience in the trenches and so being very specific telling the model what to do has been, well, refreshing to say the least.
I used to pride myself of knowing all the little ins and outs of the tech stack, especially when it comes to ops type stuff. This is still required, the difference is you don't need to spend 4 hours writing code - you can use the experience to get to the same result in 4 minutes.
I can see how "ask it for what you want and hope for the best" might not end well but personally - I am very much enjoying the process of distilling what I know we need to do next into a voice dictated prompt and then watching the AI just solve it based on what I said.
koakuma-chan|10 months ago
vrosas|10 months ago
michelpp|10 months ago
Sohcahtoa82|10 months ago
The problem we have now is we have people who aren't engineers trying to make an app and they end up creating insecure and buggy messes, then struggle with figuring out how to deploy, or they end up destroying all their code with no recovery because they didn't know anything about version control.
dwaltrip|10 months ago
binocarlos|10 months ago
I used to pride myself of knowing all the little ins and outs of the tech stack, especially when it comes to ops type stuff. This is still required, the difference is you don't need to spend 4 hours writing code - you can use the experience to get to the same result in 4 minutes.
I can see how "ask it for what you want and hope for the best" might not end well but personally - I am very much enjoying the process of distilling what I know we need to do next into a voice dictated prompt and then watching the AI just solve it based on what I said.
DidYaWipe|10 months ago