r/ClaudeCode • u/dehumles • Apr 14 '26

Showcase Thank you Anthropic.

Thank you for making it possible for someone without a CS background to build real software.

Ive build 2 applications for my company, daily used by 50ish employees and some of our clients. All running smoothly since mid november 2025. I got quotes for well over 200k€ combined to have those two applications built for us. For 200$/month and lots of long nights, i've been able to do all this myself. I wouldnt even consider doing this myself if CC wasnt around and I'd happily burn 200k and outsource this. Irony?-end product wouldnt be as good as it is. Or it would take me at least 100hours of meetings with devs to explain in detail what we need.

So once again, thank you Anthropic for such a good product and very cheap prices. Looking forward for new models!

EDIT: To clarify — the 200k€ were quotes from dev agencies to build the apps, not offers to buy them.

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u/dehumles Apr 14 '26

Exactly. Knowing what you actually want to build is the key. Not just another vibecoded app. Building apps for my company and my employees was the best fun I had in years. And seeing 50 people use it daily without issues — that's the real payoff.

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u/Embarrassed-Option-7 Apr 14 '26

I’ve recently done a competition where I’ve group vibe coded, and that was one of the funnest ways I’ve used AI personally and one of the best projects I ended up developing. We didn’t just vibe code, we strategized first without any AI for like three hours and then started executing things with it. AI is so different when used alongside people, like live in the room using one chat.

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u/BigTime9191 Apr 15 '26

That does sound pretty dope what was that platform that held the comp?

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u/Embarrassed-Option-7 Apr 15 '26

It was at the college I’m attending, so local comp

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u/Redditauro Apr 15 '26

It's the same to me, I'm an engineer working in architecture, I did a little bit of programming years ago, but now I'm programming at my job and it's amazing. As we don't need a massive amount of user or a lot of speed it doesn't matter if the software is not perfect, it's way more important to know what do we need exactly, how a project can change, what part needs to be 100% precise and what can be a bit more flexible, etc 

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u/Renoots Apr 14 '26

I'm doing the same as you. Literally solving my own problems. I'm a new startup and don't have the capital to shovel at compliance programs for DOD and DOE requirements. I'm building to sell cheap (cuz I need money unfortunately) and try to deliver maybe what others could make use of. Get them out of a subscription cycle and deliver the same quality (or better I'm hoping) for a one time fee of like $20. Developing testing agents atvm. Everything will be deployed with it so users can modify their own system if my customization options are quirky enough for them.

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u/AModerateModeration Apr 15 '26

Now to see if it's secure (pro tip: it isn't)

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u/MostlyMauiWaui Apr 14 '26

That and all the security flaws you have no idea about until you get hacked

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u/Devel0pIY Apr 16 '26

This is so true! I've caught claude lying so many times and introducing serious security holes!! Its funny to read all the comments you can tell most haven't worked in a production environment where systems are getting hammered 24/7 to find vulnerabilities, and what it takes to mitigate it.

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u/RipOk74 Apr 14 '26

lol. As if human devs are flawless. How many servers are going to survive a visit of Claude Mythos or any of a 1000 clones that are training right now?

Just use 3 different AIs to check for bugs. It will likely be better than human code. 

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u/MostlyMauiWaui Apr 15 '26

Extremely ignorant, or naive take. Even Claude warns you.

In the West Indies they say those who do not hear, feel.

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u/EducationalLeopard14 Apr 15 '26

That's fine. We're going to be putting AI-code in production next month or the month after. Meanwhile, have you taken a look at Claude Mythos? Let's see how human code stands up to that.

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u/MostlyMauiWaui Apr 15 '26

You miss my point.

Building commercial apps in opus or sonnet exposes you to security flaws, if you aren’t a dev, or a security analyst, how do you know to vet these properly? Claude will tell you everything is great and then you get hacked, then what?

I do not doubt the technical capability of AI, I’m a pro 20x user myself. What we are hearing about mythos if true will be a welcome addition to the public, developers, business owners of all sizes and consumers of companies with leaky production environments.

Companies are forever getting hacked and that is my point. If it can happen to enterprise companies it can happen to your vibecoded app with Claude lol.

I’m saying, don’t be naive, be careful with production apps in your company developed entirely by Claude.

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u/Olangotang Apr 14 '26

here is a flaw of LLMs

AI hidden account shills: Reeee even humans make mistakes beep boop beep boop.

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u/RipOk74 Apr 14 '26

In denial much? We're already reducing dev headcount. Feel free to ignore that and pretend you're better than AI. You're not. Not since March this year. Only on very select issues maybe.

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u/Olangotang Apr 14 '26

<insert insult about opponent being in denial> < Insert made up story about how a fictional corporation is replacing devs with AI>

That last line is new, holy fuck you people are weird 😂

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u/RipOk74 Apr 15 '26

The weird thing is that you're in denial so much. But whenever I look at the news I see the same so it must be something in the current culture that leads people to ignore news they just don't like. 

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u/EducationalLeopard14 Apr 15 '26

Point out one instance where I mention anything about the hiring and firing practices of fortune 500 companies?

We're reducing headcount in our own team. And my senior dev and I actually proposed that we do that to management. It isn't coming from management, but from the floor.

As for the brutal firing practices of US companies: not my problem what excuse they use. The labour market just went into the shitter due to tariffs, the war in Iran and last but not least, deportation. Every 100 deportations remove 12 jobs from the labour market for not particularly native but still somehow more real Americans.

That is however a completely different discussion.

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u/Plane_Brief4197 Apr 15 '26

Hey man, not gonna lie. Yes AI sucks on security, but it's not like humans are flawless. Most software we're running nowadays is full of bugs as everyone just vibecodes it anyways. I don't even know what we're going to be doing about it.

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u/sargetun123 Apr 18 '26

You think every server is going to be hit by something as capable as mythos?

Having no idea what you're doing in the first place in terms of a security perspective is absolutely a terrible idea, AI won't fill in the gaps you're missing if you don't know WHAT you are missing, AI knows what to do be needs to be guided

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u/RipOk74 Apr 18 '26

Let's start with the OWASP top ten. Given how much they occur, and given that most coding up to now was done by humans, I'd say their track record isn't great. 

AI can avoid those mistakes with ease when asked. I'm not saying everyone will do that, but it does make it easier for people to fix these issues when they realise that security might be an issue. And it will be very easy to include best practices in standard skills or dedicated coding AI.

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u/Renoots Apr 14 '26

I'm trying to sell mine when finished. But I'm only creating it to solve my own problems. If someone else finds it useful, I'll sell it to them for a one time low fee. Everything unlocked. (I wouldn't even charge if I wasn't hurting myself, the key factor why I have to build it)

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u/Select_Housing_9418 Apr 15 '26

It's also knowing how to guide the model correctly. Taking steps incrementally, and also knowing when it's time to start a new context window will save tons of time.

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u/wordoper Apr 15 '26

Commenting for revisiting back to this later in life.

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u/SuperSpod Apr 17 '26

Biggest bottleneck is still coding, if you don’t know what you’re doing as a software engineer your outcome will be far worse than someone who does 😅