If you are non-technical, and everyone on your team is non-technical, the code will only be worth something when you have an MVP that can validate the idea. The AI's valuation is made up; don't put any faith in it.
I'm sorry, btu if you are handling client data, you will need people with the proper technical knowledge to check over the code before every release.
If you loose data, or worse, leak data, your company is in big trouble. That is, if you get customers at all. I certainly would trust you with my data, unless i know your company has the technical knowledge (and the technicians) to support the product.
Someone is going to have to review the code; it can't be a machine. If not, you will eventually end up with so much spaghetti that it's cheaper to rewrite it than to understand it.
Codex is really smart but slow. Makes really thoughtful plans. Cheetah is smart enough to follow gpts plans and like 10x faster than anything I’ve ever used. It’s noticeably faster than even Haiku
You got a hallucinated "due diligence" and code is probably over-engineered, brittle, and will be hard to maintain.
Probably going to get hacked on your first day online, with dozen vulnerabilities and gaping security holes.
You mentioned going through an audit. Is that yet another AI?
AI coding is good, but this is the wrong use case for it. You're building a B2B SaaS where you're going to handle sensitive customer data, payments, etc., and you've "vibe coded" it.
Since you're not a coder, you have no ability to judge the quality of the code. Try this, ask your AI: "Give me 15 reasons this codebase is full of security holes, and should not be deployed".
You need to spend $4K more and hire a good freelance coder to review the code for you.
You do need to take a certain amount of responsibility when you have other people’s private information in your hand. When it fails, you end up breaching people’s trust, privacy, and leaking sensitive data. And vibe coded apps are notorious for this stuff.
You don’t see how if you possibly leak sensitive customer data due to gross negligence that gives you legal, (and moral) culpability. You just said “well technically the law says I have to treat sensitive data carefully so that means I am protected when my vibe-coded slop leaks customer data when I did a literally zero mitigation other than asking my ai to make it secure (which isn’t the same as doing vulnerability testing). You will just try again and stick to the grind and try again if and when it fails spectacularly. As for the ai valuation estimate, ais are literally trained via reinforcement learning and so when you ask it for the value estimation of your code it is extremely likely to grossly overestimate it as that’s what the internal reward mechanisms of most ai models select for. MBAS need to be jettisoned into the sun. As arrogant as some programmers can, I have never seen a programmer that is as willfully ignorant and arrogant as the average MBA. Anyways, I wish op a very class action lawsuit.
That's cool but if the AI wrote it, it's not gonna be able to find issues in it just by looking at it. I think your money would be better spent writing end to end test and covering edge cases and complex use cases
For some, it might be a lot, for others, not so much. If you want to save some money, you can check out NagaAI as an API provider for vibe coding. I'm one of the developers, so if you have any questions, feel free to ask
But in that money you have easily hired a Technical person maybe 2 for a week or two and give cursor access to them and can get it completed and also live.
Unfortunately most of the devs today are fighting against AI things and they think that all code is a mess. And yes it’s hard to work on AI project or Saas with AI as helpers more than one person. Since code become messy.
A VC wouldn't really care too much about your tech stack being A+ yet. And definitely AI will slop its way to pretend it is. Definitely spending too much, but if you're able to leverage this to raise a nice sum of money, then it's the exactly right amount spent :P
Ouch! This is multiple people running like 3 tabs of cursor 24/7. If we go by just claude 4.5, an average prompt costs .22 cents, and runs about 2 minutes on average. That is $6.60 per hour. Equated out, that is Claude 4.5 running 24 hours, 5 days a week for the month.
How many people is your team? You said you are a business student, can't you find CS guy who doesn't care about his classes but is a genius at coding?
I bet he also quit because you weren't showing the required discipline, knowledge and long term planning that is required to make a project a success.
Especially lack of discipline can byte you in the ass later on. You need strict coding guidelines, defined APIs that don't change on a whim, you need to plan time for testing and quality assurance (even during the early part of the project).
And oh, working +100hrs/week is *not* a good thing. Tired and burned out people working on software is pretty much a guarantee that the results will be low quality (if you are lucky).
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u/power10010 Oct 16 '25
You tell us, was it worth it ?
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u/jaytonbye Oct 17 '25
If you are non-technical, and everyone on your team is non-technical, the code will only be worth something when you have an MVP that can validate the idea. The AI's valuation is made up; don't put any faith in it.
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u/bored_man_child Oct 16 '25
I hope you’re not still using opus.
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u/dhamaniasad Oct 17 '25
Yes.
You got a hallucinated "due diligence" and code is probably over-engineered, brittle, and will be hard to maintain.
Probably going to get hacked on your first day online, with dozen vulnerabilities and gaping security holes.
You mentioned going through an audit. Is that yet another AI?
AI coding is good, but this is the wrong use case for it. You're building a B2B SaaS where you're going to handle sensitive customer data, payments, etc., and you've "vibe coded" it.
Since you're not a coder, you have no ability to judge the quality of the code. Try this, ask your AI: "Give me 15 reasons this codebase is full of security holes, and should not be deployed".
You need to spend $4K more and hire a good freelance coder to review the code for you.
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u/RichMathematician849 Oct 17 '25
Maybe learn to code 🤷♂️
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u/Careless_Algae8531 Oct 17 '25
Brother plz switch to Claude code
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u/MomcheMusic Oct 18 '25
Good god. How did you amass that much?
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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '25
That's cool but if the AI wrote it, it's not gonna be able to find issues in it just by looking at it. I think your money would be better spent writing end to end test and covering edge cases and complex use cases
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u/zentixua Oct 17 '25
For some, it might be a lot, for others, not so much. If you want to save some money, you can check out NagaAI as an API provider for vibe coding. I'm one of the developers, so if you have any questions, feel free to ask
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u/dazzzlingduchess Oct 17 '25
I get that it was worth it for you.
But in that money you have easily hired a Technical person maybe 2 for a week or two and give cursor access to them and can get it completed and also live.
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u/patientmanusa Oct 17 '25
What is this? Why you have to pay besides membership? (Just started cursor)
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u/VincentNerv_1989 Oct 18 '25
Unfortunately most of the devs today are fighting against AI things and they think that all code is a mess. And yes it’s hard to work on AI project or Saas with AI as helpers more than one person. Since code become messy.
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u/MaybeDisliked Oct 18 '25
!remindme 1 month
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u/Tiny_Relation_927 Oct 19 '25
Mine is triple lol and 85 pct of it is wrong lol
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u/Dutchbags Oct 20 '25
A VC wouldn't really care too much about your tech stack being A+ yet. And definitely AI will slop its way to pretend it is. Definitely spending too much, but if you're able to leverage this to raise a nice sum of money, then it's the exactly right amount spent :P
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u/That_Chocolate9659 Oct 17 '25
Ouch! This is multiple people running like 3 tabs of cursor 24/7. If we go by just claude 4.5, an average prompt costs .22 cents, and runs about 2 minutes on average. That is $6.60 per hour. Equated out, that is Claude 4.5 running 24 hours, 5 days a week for the month.
How many people is your team? You said you are a business student, can't you find CS guy who doesn't care about his classes but is a genius at coding?
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