I genuinely believed I was going to quit my job from the app revenue by January. It is April. I have not quit my job. I have also not made any revenue and I renewed my lease.

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.

hired as a 'senior dev' at a startup. they don't know 90% of my output is Claude Code with me directing it, sorry ORCHESTRATING. delivered sprint after sprint, got employee of the month, got a raise, the code runs fine, the tests pass. this is the job now and based on my expectations I'll be able to completely replace myself with an avatar

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

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

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

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

The startup that replaced us raised $4M and used Devin to rebuild our product in 6 weeks. I know because our lead engineer joined them. Our product had taken us 3 years. The VC who passed on us in our last round told me, very kindly, that the pace of AI-assisted development had changed his return math. Our four years of institutional knowledge about the problem space was worth less than their six weeks of shipping speed. The market agreed

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'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 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.

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

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?!

Found code in our repo that nobody on the team remembers writing. we checked the git blame. It was written by 3 different people in the same 2-hour window. nobody remembered the session… ai amnesia?

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

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

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

>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.

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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

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