my app got approved for an accelerator, I dont know how to code lamo

PE firm acquired my scheduling platform for 4.8M. Sat in the boardroom while their CTO talked about our microservices architecture and event-driven pipeline. I smiled and said yes exactly. I understood maybe 4% of that meeting. Brother it is one file. One enormous cursor-generated file. No microservices! No event pipeline! The earnout means I stay on as CTO for 18 months! Hail Mary! I have 14 engineers reporting to me. Yesterday I googled what a sprint retrospective is. If my laptop dies I am done but I lived a goo dlife

I spent two months on a feature nobody asked for (I thought it was what users wanted but I never asked users). There are no users. I've been building for an imaginary customer lmaooo

My thoughts after 2 weeks of running my startup (I swear it's true, it was 3 months ago and I sent it to my dev friend): It keeps wanting to add something called authentication! I don't need authentication, I need people to be able to sign up and log in! Why does it keep changing the subject?!

my vibe coded saas got acquired for $1.1 million last eyar. i was 26. it was a niche b2b tool for logistics coordinators. i built it in 5 weeks and ran it for 8 months. acquirer was a PE firm rolling up vertical software. the check was real and i stared at my bank account for an eternity I swear

the AI apologized to me 4 times in one conversation today. i didn't even complain. it just kept apologizing preemptively, I'm so tired of it

using chatgpt to write terraform an it seemed fine. i mean it generated perfectly valid terraform but it dint understand that deleting and recreating a resource and modifying it in place are different operations with different consequences. ran the plan, it said 14 resources to update, i approved, it deleted our production database. *picture of a laughing spanish dude in a tv*. the "update" was actually destroy and recreate and we lost 6 weeks of user data. we lost the company.

I have 26 years in this industry. Principal engineer at three public companies. I have mentored dozens of developers. Last month I interviewed for a staff engineer role and got rejected because I couldn't demonstrate sufficient proficiency with AI coding tools during the technical screen. The 28-year-old interviewer wanted to see me use Copilot in real time. Not going to lie, I froze. I mean I know how to use it but I was watching a generation of engineers skip the part where you understand what you're building.

some mornings i open cursor feeling like i can build anything. some mornings every response misses slightly and i spend two hours going in circles. the code quality of what ships is roughly the same either way.

I'm offering app development services now. $5K per project. Already have two clients. I use Lovable and Claude and deliver in about a week. My clients think I have a team. I AM the team.

honestly the hardest part of building my app was coming up with the name. the actual coding part took a weekend.

coding is honestly not that hard. you just describe what you want and the AI writes it. I think developers have been gatekeeping this whole time.

I've been vibe coding for two months and I want to be honest with people in this community: I have a folder with 47000 lines of code and an app that does nothing. The AI is very busy doing nothing extremely thoroughly.

I asked it to make my app look like Airbnb and it literally just made everything white with some rounded corners. That's NOT Airbnb. Airbnb has A FEELING. You can't prompt feeling, I hate this dumb clanker

Accounting firm, 3 partners. We were leaving money on the table because tax prep took forever. i vibe coded an intake and pre-processing pipeline with claude over christmas break. Cut our prep time by 40%. we took on 22 new clients this season. Revenue up $180k this year

the documentation problem is getting worse not better. the code gets written 10x faster. the documentation does not get written 10x faster. the ratio is collapsing while its counterintuitive

coworker showed cto our slack messages where i called the ai-generated code a "dumpster fire held together with prayers." i had also said we needed to stop shipping until we actually understood what we built. cto was the one who mandated the vibe coding approach. i was let go the following monday for "culture fit." the system i called a dumpster fire had a major outage three weeks later. i saw it on techcrunch. i felt many things but I've never laughed so hard in my life

two hospital systems. Gemini wrote the HL7 parsing logic. there was a mapping error in the medication dosage field - it was transposing two values under specific conditions. we caught it before anyone was hurt but the remediation cost us the contract, a $2.1M annual deal, and our relationship with both health systems. the CTO resigned. thank god Im not him

my freelance dev rates are $210/hr. clients pay this without negotiating. what they dont know is that a sprint that used to take me 3 weeks now takes 4 days. i am not pricing by the hour in my head. i am pricing by value delivered. this is what leverage actually means, bitches!

>pm asked if we could 'just use lovable for this.' the feature involves payments and user data.
>i explained why not.
>she nodded.
>she did not understand at all (probably she went to ask chatgpt if im correct or not)
>this is fine.

so we did the pivot. we pivoted to AI-generated legal documents. we used gpt to generate contracts. we had a disclaimer that said do not rely on this for legal advice. we thought that covered us. it does not cover you. one of our generated NDAs had an unenforceable confidentiality clause due to a jurisdiction error the AI made. the company using it found out when they tried to enforce it. their legal fees became our legal fees. 8 months of litigation kmp

My entire authentication flow was written by Claude and I genuinely cannot tell you how it works. Users can log in - that's all I know.

used claude to write my README. it made the project sound incredible. sent it to an investor. they asked a technical question. i had to go back to claude to learn enough about my own project to answer.

Went from zero to $15K MRR in 11 months without a single line of code I personally wrote. The app has bugs. Customers report them. I fix them by asking Claude. My churn rate is low. My stress level is very high. But we are growing, baby!

coding used to be a skill. now it's just vibes. I say this as someone who just shipped their second app. yolo lfg