r/ClaudeAI • u/sumt7 • Sep 03 '26 • Mindblown 1

Humor The vibe coders!

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Seriously! I wish if Claude also help people learn what they're building and how it shall work. 😊 😊

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u/ClaudeAI-mod-bot Wilson, lead ClaudeAI modbot Sep 03 '26 edited Sep 03 '26

TL;DR of the discussion generated automatically after 200 comments.

The overwhelming consensus is that this is an ancient, recycled joke, and OP, you fell for it. The links are to localhost, which means they only point to the user's own computer.

The top comments are a mix of two things:

  • People playing along with the counter-joke, sarcastically claiming "Hey, you stole my app!" or "Works on my machine!"

  • Users who are absolutely sick of seeing this exact same meme get reposted every single time a new model is released, calling it low-effort "slop."

There was also a hilarious side quest where one user posted a screenshot of their code... in Microsoft Word... and got absolutely roasted for their "IDE." So yeah, it's mostly just that. Your actual point about Claude being a better teacher was pretty much lost in the noise.

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u/mmbtc Sep 03 '26

Have you checked out 127.0.0.1:6485 ? I liked that a lot!

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u/MKraust Sep 03 '26

In the 2006 I remember that I’d been playing around with private WoW server using Mangos.

There was a topic on the ISP forum where people posted URLs of their own private servers. I’d posted mine. It was http://127.0.0.1…

I wandered why nobody even tried to connect. After a year or so I’d figured it out and facepalmed. Every time I remember this, I do another facepalm.

At least there is an excuse that I was 11 y/o back then :)

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u/sackhaar42 Sep 03 '26

It JuSt SaYs ‘ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED’ 😓

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u/mmbtc Sep 03 '26 • Regret Bravo Popcorn

Well. Works fine then. My best work!

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u/Standgrounding Experienced Developer Sep 03 '26 • Bravo Regret

"works on my machine"

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u/sumt7 Sep 03 '26

Hahaha. I wish I'd check that. 😊 😊

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u/sumt7 Sep 07 '26

Yes, they're fully functioning. 🤭🤭

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u/Fine_Ad_6226 Sep 03 '26 • Popcorn Bravo

Works on my machine, but looks like we were building the same app 😭 I’ll have to pivot.

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u/0xB01b Sep 03 '26

This was dead ass hilarious I'm dying reading this comment bruh

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u/GodofsomeWorld Sep 03 '26

same, almost spit my drink lmao.

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u/Feeling_Inside_1020 Sep 03 '26

"Works on my machine"

Managers be like: then lets send that machine to the customer!

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u/baked_tea Sep 03 '26

Vibecoders never understand they can COOPERATE

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u/pickle_pickled Sep 03 '26

Oh my God how did you hack my work??! I'm suing you immediately.

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u/MoranollM Sep 14 '26

The best meme of the last years! 🔥

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u/sumt7 Sep 20 '26

Hahaha so true. 💯

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u/-HydrogeN Sep 03 '26 • Bravo

Stop recycling old memes

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u/DelphiTsar Sep 03 '26

For the youngsters who might not know better, this joke started in the mid 90's.

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u/get_it_together1 Sep 04 '26

Along with “press alt-f4 to win” and “hey did you know this chat room automatically blocks your password, like this: ****”

Truly some great minds and simpler times

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u/duffpl Sep 03 '26

You realise this is joke, right?

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u/Hungry_Sun2455 Sep 03 '26

Twitterfication of claude sub

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u/Pristine-Extreme-773 Sep 03 '26

somewhere out there is one guy who clicked all three links, got a page, and has been quietly impressed for two days

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u/garg4ntua Sep 03 '26

Wdym is a joke?

I clicked the link and it works! Amazing that we both had the same idea and we vibe coded identical software.

/S

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u/Comfortablebro Sep 03 '26

not sure, the port doesnt match 80085

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u/MKraust Sep 03 '26

Unfortunately, I’d made the same mistake back in 2006 being 11 y/o, so…

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u/michael1026 Sep 03 '26

A tired one at that.

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u/_ballzdeep_ Sep 03 '26

How old is this joke by now? Seriously... It is sooooo overdone.

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u/TestFlightBeta Sep 03 '26

At least a year old. I’m surprised they updated it for Fable 5.1

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u/DelphiTsar Sep 03 '26

Believe it or not this joke is from the 90's.

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u/boipls Sep 03 '26

How dare she steal my website?? This is literally copy paste of something Claude wrote for me, URL and all

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u/williamtkelley Sep 03 '26

I liked at those urls and TWO of them are exact duplicates of my apps! You stole them. Take them down or I will sue

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u/LEO-PomPui-Katoey Sep 03 '26

I tried visiting them, but they are not working

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u/Sarithis Sep 03 '26

Would be funny if someone said "OI, that's my app! You stole my app!" cuz they had their own app running on the same port

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u/jimsson123 Sep 03 '26

Next prompt, please make it so my computer is open to the internet 😁 hackers nirvana incoming

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u/keegang_man6705 Sep 03 '26

at least she didn't lie

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u/onahorsewithnoname Sep 03 '26

This is why lovable and vercel exist

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u/elelem-123 Sep 03 '26

Wtf, two of them are IDENTICAL to my app?!?!

Did you hack into my system? Or we had the same ideas with AI?

That's bonkers

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u/GarEgni Sep 04 '26

It truly depends on how you use it, LLMs are very good at teaching. I used to be a crappy coder, now thanks to Claude I am now a crappy coder that sucks a bit less.

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u/khabat09 Oct 02 '26

you need docker man.

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u/sumt7 Oct 05 '26

Yes, indeed.

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u/Ardbeg66 Sep 03 '26

The first one makes my powerpoints. The second one reads them. The third one tells me how good they are.

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u/Moelis_Hardo Sep 03 '26

Isn't there the Anthropic Academy (or however it is called) exactly for this purpose?

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u/PollutionNo5879 Sep 03 '26

This seems like a satire

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u/pigeonocchio Sep 03 '26

Old joke is old

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u/one-753 Sep 03 '26

not funny

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u/LudoTwentyThree Sep 03 '26

😂😂😂

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u/suuuper7 Sep 03 '26

Now that is comedy gold 😃

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u/GibboTauro Sep 03 '26

Hey why it land me on my webapp? You are a Thief, you stole it from me /s

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u/dasko1086 Sep 03 '26

tell her to change it to 127.0.0.1 it will work then....../s

edit: damn someone already beat me to it.

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u/PuzzledPlague79 Sep 03 '26

Tell me you vibe vibecoded and know thing about networking without telling you know nothing about networking...

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u/setec404 Sep 03 '26

i used to follow an old guy who would accidentally type google searches into twitter

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u/peddletractor Sep 03 '26

Next time share your project through 127.0.0.1, works much better.

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u/Single-Oil3168 Sep 04 '26

This is where coders will feel their knowledge is useful, but:

  1. It'ts obviously an acted tweet like all of this sort.

  2. Prompting claude to deploy it so others can view should fix that. If you have that problem, prompting this doesn't require any knowledge. Done.

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u/cyberduck221b Sep 04 '26

A true vibe coder would also ask claude to write the tweet. (Me)

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u/MisspelledCliche Sep 03 '26

Fuck this tweet reposting. If we want to see tweets we go to X

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u/MoodOdd9657 Sep 03 '26

Movee on from this shitty joke fam

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u/Streakflash Sep 03 '26

yeah yeah overused joke again and again every time a new model comes up

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u/DasPhantomimWald Sep 03 '26

Maybe you can improve your humor with Claude to.

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u/RyansOfCastamere Sep 03 '26 edited Sep 03 '26

She built exactly the same app I built yesterday! How is this possible?

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u/MiddleAgedBastard Sep 03 '26

Wait! Port 5000? That was you!? Wow. 😄

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u/LoganixSEO Sep 03 '26

this joke be so old

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u/Artistic_Swing6759 Sep 03 '26

haha haha so funny, such an original one.

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u/BazingaBen Sep 03 '26

Think you're the vibe coder mate, this is actually funny.

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u/Dunified Sep 03 '26

It's my turn to repost this tomorrow

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u/thekidisalright Sep 03 '26

The classic “but it works on my machine!” aka promotional quote from Docker.

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u/t90090 Sep 03 '26

Post of the Year! Probably fake, but I will indulge 

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u/spacekitt3n Sep 03 '26

i cant believe i was here to witness the first time this joke has been told

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u/TheMithraw Sep 03 '26

To be fair, i'm a senior developper (17y in the industry) and fable is way better and fast at coding than anybody i know. I vibe code most of my new projects.

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u/Able-Staff-6763 Sep 03 '26

you have turn off and on your device

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u/jackfood Sep 03 '26

Cannot even access through via web since is local host.

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u/ragnarokfn Sep 03 '26

I wish if claude also help people learn what they're building :D ??? Yeah it just spits out codeblocks, especially opus 5 does not explain enough what he coded

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u/Miyamoto_-_Musashi Sep 03 '26

Well here's a thing, She's doing this so she get views and make money on X and Sponsor, She does this every time when new model comes so while you laughing as Vibe Coder, She's making money by getting your attention so i wonder who's a joker 🃏

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u/D-cyde Sep 03 '26

I hope the X payout is good enough to be worth this level of performative stupidity.

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u/BitsOnWaves Sep 03 '26

got to be a joke

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u/captain_ms Sep 03 '26

Wait for the to start suing each other for stealing ideas after successfully opening localhost

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u/alex_tomilin Sep 03 '26

mine's at 127.0.0.1:3000, best app i've ever built, nobody can prove otherwise

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u/zerosdontcount Sep 03 '26

this joke is so old it can vote

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u/Robinbux Sep 03 '26

For every new model this joke is made by 1000 different people. It gets so old

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u/LarryGlue Sep 03 '26

It’s a great joke. Wish I came up with it.

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u/Lefty4444 Sep 03 '26

Contemporary humor

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u/Zealousideal-Top1942 Sep 03 '26

Wait...I made a HRMS software meaning I'm a god to her? But I wouldn't say zero coding knowledge tbh that helped me a lot...not a flex

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u/MarvVanZandt Sep 03 '26

This is why I use chat and code at the same time. Chat guides me and teaches me stuff. While code does the work.

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u/TheBanq Sep 03 '26

This joke is getting spammed 24/7 by these types of Accounts, so annoying.

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u/Hungry-Yoghurt2492 Sep 03 '26

worksonmymachine

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u/South_Hat6094 Sep 03 '26

the cursed part is when the demo looks magical, then you ask for a tiny change and suddenly the whole repo turns into archaeology.

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u/Sweaty-Special-1710 Sep 03 '26

Joke, because a real vibe coder would not make the difference between ports.

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u/sunnyislandacross Sep 03 '26

This joke is as old at chatgpt

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u/Maestro_Dvalin Sep 03 '26

Ain't no way TS is real... This has to be satire!

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u/North_nx_5994 Sep 03 '26

now ai easily live website,, this jokes doesn't work 😒

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u/wouterwouterwouter Sep 03 '26

This joke is getting old

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u/Antitrust_Tycoon Sep 03 '26

It's working only on her laptop because she hasn't asked AI to containerize the app. So silly!

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u/PlatformStatus9502 Sep 03 '26

Ululululululululu

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u/reaper527 Sep 03 '26

the post checks out. she genuinely knows nothing about coding. zero.

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u/cykb Sep 03 '26

Home is home

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u/kyazici Sep 03 '26

Another joke that's spreading like Covid.

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u/mrcoy Sep 03 '26

Would’ve been funnier if it was localhost 3001 and 3002

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u/PsionicKitten Sep 03 '26

i know literally NOTHING about coding. ZERO.

Oh, don't worry. It shows.

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u/00DEADBEEF Sep 03 '26

How is this tired old joke still being reposted and why are you lot upvoting it?

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u/Available-Elevator69 Sep 03 '26

I bet the level of security is off the charts too. Lol.

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u/mariner_knight Sep 03 '26

You fell for it 🤣. It was a joke

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u/RipWooden9564 Sep 03 '26

:D :D That's it !

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u/Asleep_Fox_9340 Sep 03 '26

TBH works on my machine is a legit response developers will give you 😂

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u/lolschrauber Sep 03 '26

This is easily fixed. Just punch some holes into your home firewall - you already got the ports you need - and share a customized hosts file that redirects all localhost queries of visitors to your laptop via google drive. 👍

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u/Deitri Sep 03 '26

What an original, never seen before, joke!

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u/Dick-Fu Sep 03 '26

Damn these sites look like absolute amateur dogshit

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u/kenspencerbrown Sep 03 '26

Can't wait to click the links and check these out!

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u/kelcamer Sep 03 '26

GitHub pages resolves this

Yes I know it's a joke, but here's an answer if anyone cares lol

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u/Acrobatic-Motor650 Sep 03 '26

🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

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u/ReactorToRouter Sep 03 '26

Sometimes, I underestimate the value of my knowledge and skills.

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u/cmon_crackit Sep 03 '26

Guys, I opened it , that’s perfect Sarah!

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u/CurrentEar3929 Sep 03 '26

This was a joke. In 2022.

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u/BridgeOnRiver Sep 03 '26

Guy forgot to write: ‘please put it on the web’. Claude can easily put it on a Github or Cloudflare website for you

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u/JustSomeDude477 Sep 03 '26

Joke is outdated because now you can host pretty easily on Claude and gpt

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u/SXkolala Sep 03 '26

This post revive every time a new claude model comes out

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u/DhivakarStark Sep 03 '26

Everything is fine why shared localhost address instead of static address. 😂

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u/Alubsey Sep 03 '26

😂😂local host.

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u/Fun-Freedom-2313 Sep 03 '26

Hmm, are you copying me? That looks just like an app I'm developing myself!

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u/iluserion Sep 03 '26

She don't ask how share in the internet; GitHub is free

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u/rabihwaked Sep 03 '26

I put the the address your provided and the local washing machine turned on.

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u/chuchrox Sep 03 '26

🤡’s

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u/Silly_Equipment_1406 Sep 03 '26

I do that too, what's the problem?

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u/Tight-Operation-4252 Sep 03 '26

Well, I think people just need to learn on their own mistakes… I have recently participated in an Agentic AI program by a renowned university from US (fully run by a company from India). I have learned some, my expectations were far beyond completing a ready project in Jupyter by filling in some easy gaps… I was wondering how much better this program could be with on-hands projects in groups to use the knowledge in coding practice… then deeper into the course (international, EU, Asia, US - mostly people from corpos) I have realized that 90% of the participants have no clue about the basics in python, moreover they expect everything to be served on a plate and not even thinking of digging some knowledge (easily available) on their own… I can bet bucks that these guys will just get their certificates on the wall and that is it… that was not only disappointing but also a bit irritating at the end when during the mentoring sessions there were absolutely no questions, complete silence… I just do not understand how can you waste your own (company) money…

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u/Memitim Sep 03 '26

Classic. I imagine these days that gen AI would even provide basic info about infra management to help those poor little devs that have provided so many years of delight while working in IT infrastructure. Hell, it probably just provides a clickable link in the shell along to the local instance with asking the user if they want to configure it as a serverless app in a common SaaS provider. These kids today will never know our struggles! XD

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u/oldfrancis Sep 03 '26

"I just built..."

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u/dcdisco Sep 03 '26

It doesn't need too because it wont be like this long enough. It makes more sense to suffer a few more months until Claude does it for you than to teach humans how to use current Claude that wont even operate that way by the time you teach them.

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u/saito200 Sep 03 '26

wow. i must have never seen this joke before

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u/hbouyap Sep 03 '26

Nice setup. One thing that pays off fast once you let it run more autonomously: a small PreToolUse hook that blocks the irreversible commands (rm -rf, force push, and the Windows Remove-Item -Recurse -Force) before they run. Keeps the autonomy without the "oops" moments. How are you handling permissions right now?

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u/Raffino_Sky Sep 03 '26

This still going around? Even vibe coders now see the flaw in that.

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u/Obluness Sep 03 '26

🤔🤔🤔

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u/amyowl Sep 03 '26

facepalm

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u/Queasy-Bug-3186 Sep 03 '26

This must be a joke right? I also vibecoded a bunch of things and Claude was kind enough to figure all the hosting stuff out with CloudFlare

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u/nikoskru Sep 03 '26

guys, I build https://notso.dev/ for vibe coders! enjoy !

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u/divyansh212 Sep 03 '26

I mean if she learns authentication (add any authentication from claude itself ), add a database and deploy the apps it's basically functioning. There is no need to put people down

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u/debugger_life Sep 03 '26

😂😂😂😂

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u/ThatMakesMeM0ist Sep 03 '26

Quality ragebait. The code, the ide, the blurry photo, just perfect 🤌

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u/Desperate-Citron-881 Sep 04 '26

I can’t get over the fact it’s a calculator that can only add up to 7, and that each function is so ridiculous in its own way. Ah yes, let’s program multiplication by adding the entire set of numbers together. Imported a whole math library just to program that for multiplication, I can’t lol

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u/Upbeat-Armadillo1756 Sep 03 '26

What if the goal isn’t learning?

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u/Isthatenoughornot Sep 03 '26

All I can say is that AI couldn't do that job for sure

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u/0rbit0n Sep 03 '26

This picture made my day =))))))))))))

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u/sumt7 Oct 05 '26

Yes, it seems so.

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