[philipwhiuk]

> I’ll keep using these tools. They’ve made me measurably more productive in ways I can point to: time saved, projects shipped, focus protected.

What products? This blog post is long on vibes and short on evidence.

> The actual gains are granular and personal, which makes them hard to count and easy to dismiss.

It also means the trillion dollar valuations might be bunk?

[watt]

I ship 0 projects and now with AI I can ship thousand times more in the same time frame!

[empath75]

> What products? This blog post is long on vibes and short on evidence.

I think this is an uninteresting question. Almost every company is putting AI produced code into their products now and has been for years. Whether it's entirely vibe-coded or not is beside the point.

I'm working on 4 kubernetes operators that we use internally at work in production currently. 3 of them were handcrafted, one of them was vibe coded using the other 3 as a template. Almost all of the work being done on all 4 of them is now done by AI, whether it is copilot or cursor or claude code. Stuff that used to take me days or weeks now takes hours.

Just to give one example -- yesterday I added a whole new custom resource to an operator with some quite complicated logic that touched 8 or 9 different kubernetes resources. It's not a hugely complicated task, and I could have done it in 2-3 days by myself. Claude Code essentially one shotted it in 15 minutes, including tests. It misunderstood some things, it made some judgement calls that I didn't like in terms of spec, it wrote some new code instead of using pre-existing code, but fixing that took another 90 minutes or so, then I was done.

You can put your head in the sand all you want, but the latest versions of the LLMs running in Claude Code are the real deal. The produce code 5-10x faster than an engineer working by themselves, and it's almost always better code than they would have produced, with more documentation and tests, and even better written PRs comments and Jira tickets.

If you want to talk about valuations, consider now that there is a very real conversation about hiring vs spending more on tokens and spending more on tokens almost always wins. Anthropic is going to be absolutely printing money over the next year, and I would not be surprised if they turn a profit in two years.