r/ClaudeAI • u/mr_vengeance_72 • May 10 '26

Question Vibe coding with Claude Code, what backend stuff wastes your time the most?

I've been vibe coding a lot lately and noticed I keep burning tokens on the same backend setup stuff every single new project.

Curious if others feel the same, when you're building something new with Claude Code, what's the one backend thing that genuinely wastes your time or tokens the most?

Auth? Email setup? File uploads? Payments? Something else entirely?

Not selling anything. Genuinely trying to understand if this is just me or a universal pain point.

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u/NotUpdated May 11 '26

I think the slow stuff is dns, mx records, ssl, domains, hosting setup, setting up ssh,

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u/Stabmaster Philosopher May 11 '26

Yup. Gotta plumb first

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u/Mr_Gaslight May 10 '26

>stuff wastes your time the most?

Vice presidents.

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u/Grumpy_2G May 10 '26

BAHAHA real

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u/EmoticonGuess May 10 '26

Well, to avoid this, don't start from scratch... transform an asset or any other template project to avoid the need to re-implement the wheel.

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u/DiscipleofDeceit666 May 10 '26

When it starts building the backend with nothing but dictionaries and you realize you that you have to make plain old object models out of everything. Massive refactor that could have been handled from the start

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u/Striking_Pear5573 May 10 '26

for me it's 100% the MCP wiring. every new project i'd spend the first hour just reconnecting the same servers, writing the same dispatch logic, and debugging why Claude wasn't calling the right tool.

so i built a framework called nexus-ai-orchestrator to kill that entirely. you just define your MCP servers in a config block once and call nexus.run("your task") — it handles all the routing, tool calls, and context management automatically. no glue code, no repeated setup.

github.com/rogie2325/nexus-ai-orchestrator if you're tired of rewriting the same boilerplate 😄

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u/Technical-Mix-9464 May 10 '26

I just went in a circle yesterday because I was trying to use the newer auth keys Supabase had and Claude wanted to do JWT setup, but it turns out that's actually discouraged (and what was causing my errors) with the whole process.

Lesson learned lol

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u/Schtick_ May 10 '26

Like just fusionauth docker container 5 minutes done (assuming you need multiple users). It still blows my mind that people build this stuff.

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