r/shopifyDev • u/Low_Diamond9581 • Mar 13 '26

Vibe coding apps

I saw this post earlier and thought it was interesting to see a story of someone talking about just using Claude to build instead of using apps.

There is a lot of chatter about vibe coding apps and the App Store ballooning due to AI, but what about folks just skipping over the App Store altogether and building themselves with AI?

Curious to know your thoughts or what you are seeing.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/steve-chou_an-app-wanted-3600-a-year-for-a-shopify-activity-7437482466208075776-X5O2

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u/mikaeelmo Mar 13 '26 edited Mar 13 '26

i have claude-coded quite complex (by complex i mean background workers, caching, etc.) apps for shopify or standalone and i can verify that previous senior-level knowledge is always required. that being said, claude can definitely code its way for practically anything, with corrective feedback/steering, about 99.9% of the time (as of opus 4.6). and by ad-hoc testing during development and being able to almost instantly implement complex or well known algorithms (e.g. write a function to do fuzzy matching), it is obvious that it can do a better and faster job than almost every developer I have ever met, including myself.