[jamest]

I built an app (HN Clone, of course) with Instant's MCP hooked up to Claude Code.

The experience was brilliant.

Pros:

+ Fast

+ Easy

+ "Vibe coding on steroids" basically

+ The sense of 'wow' that comes very rarely with new tech

Cons:

- It used Instant as the database/backend, but I wasn't sure what it had done / how exactly it worked and had to spend a bunch of time asking Claude + reading the code to get it. It seemed reasonable, but if I were doing a prod system vs a PoC, this is where the time would be spent. ("Vibe coding lets you create tech debt 10x faster")

Net-net: This is the way for prototyping / validating. This is probably the way for production systems in N months too once the toolchain + agents get better.

[achierius]

Would you mind sharing the code, as well as prompts if you're comfortable? I'm trying to sample anecdata to help re-baseline my intuition on these things.

[stopachka]

> as well as prompts if you're comfortable?

This made me wonder: can I share Claude Code's conversation history? Turns Claude stores them.

So I made a full-stack "snippet" app with Claude and Instant. You can:

1. Upload jsonl files 2. Share them in a nice UI

(Going meta) here's the first conversation I had with Claude in order to build it:

https://claude-code-viewer.vercel.app/view/c4ca91ac-9624-40f...

After I deployed, I asked it to fix the tool use UI:

https://claude-code-viewer.vercel.app/view/faf9b2cc-c3cf-4d0...

I used Instant's auth to gate uploads. Views are public, but limited only to the snippets you know (i.e have links for).

If you want to upload your own conversations:

1. They live in ~/.claude. Head on over and grab a file 2. Go to https://claude-code-viewer.vercel.app and sign up 3. Start uploading : )

Some notes:

* Be careful when sharing log files. Claude can include secrets in there. Some hackers may notice an adminToken in the convo. I rotated it before we pushed.

* It was fun to see Claude use the query language. It thought we had a `$startsWith` modifier. Right now we only have $like. But `$startsWith` is a great idea, we may just implement it real quick!

[jamest]

I don't have the prompts, but here you go:

  - https://the-inference.vercel.app
  - https://github.com/jamestamplin/instant-test

[croes]

If they get better. At the moment the progress is on the toolchains because the LLMs progress as such slows down because of the lack of training data

[lyime]

Have you tried Convex?