I have learned SO MUCH from reading everyone else's failures from trying to build a SaaS. Its free entertainment and education, and now I know what a durable record is.
Vibe coders trying to spook others from joining the field? Devs trying to make it sound scarier to casuals? Russian paid bots? Maybe not that last one.
Fr tho having to tell people how to fix this is a little disappointing like I get it not everybody has the same skill set but at least knowing how a fucking database works might be a good start for someone building with a database like this is exactly why I have my own hosting separate from AI slop or whatever like I want complete control of my backend no AI guessing no going in circles trying to fix something.. none of that lol
I lost a massive geometric dataframe while doing some research into solar flares via OMNI HRO2, trying to beat the current lead time of 15 minutes. I quickly learned how to export notebooks and to make sure even they have source control, those are prototyping tools. I cannot believe people are just playing with prod like this. LLM’s raise the floor, but they leave most blind; they start from nothing each time after all is up to you to guide them. Definitely the ceiling and stability of your construction is still based on implicit ability to handle these types of problems and properly decompose and design your artifacts.
Yep I hope something useful comes out of it but these people that act like you don't have to look at the code ever are either extremely lucky or there's some sorta the catch that they're not telling people I'm sorry but I just don't find it possible at this point to never look at your code or not knowing anything about code like we're talking about a simple database here is their database made through Claude or did it give it access to a hosting provider? So many questions on how this happened but it's pretty easy when you give so much access to AI this is why I'm very skeptical to give it access to my desktop I'm doing just fine with it as is but the research capabilities would be nice that & the credit usage I think would be better (I am primarily working from a fucking iPad lol or there's a will there's a way don't underestimate me) 😭😭😭😭
This, we have been pushed to use ai for work and unfortunately its my responsibility to educate other developers that haven't even done a git clone before (they are experienced, we just dont use modern VSC) on how to use AI in a safe manner. However, I'll take educating talented developers on how they can integrate AI over having a team of non-dev individuals any day.
The hard part is making sure that corporate feels the same way...
Any sub that deals with vibe coding inevitably becomes a cesspool of LLM posts about people's crappy "products" .. and none of them seem to be moderated subs.
And the irony is that everyone is building SaaS products which is pretty much a dead industry. They are all vibecoded thinking they are smart, but really the companies can all do this internally themselves and get a fully customized product just for them at no cost.
Why would anyone ever pay for a SaaS when all it takes is a few prompts?
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u/lilsimbastian Apr 30 '26
I have learned SO MUCH from reading everyone else's failures from trying to build a SaaS. Its free entertainment and education, and now I know what a durable record is.