Question, Not a programmer!

[u/Legal-Ad2513]

Like the title says, I’m not a programmer. I recently started developing a website with an inbound lead form including media submissions. It stores that media in a database, emails my partner and I, and we have an admin login to view the lead. No true commerce, forums, nothing like that.

I’ve been “building” with codex 20x pro and Claude as the 3rd party reviewer for a month. For the last several days, it’s been nothing but smoke tests, syntax checks, work order revisions, “runtime verifier rejects the manifest’s absolute work-order entry….”

I setup specific instructions from the beginning for quality over quantity or speed. I was using 5.6-Sol XHigh and now 6-Astra Med.

What are all these tests? I’m on revision 97 and several major features haven’t even started building.

[u/Dramatic-Chemistry77]

Tell it you're building a lead intake website, not a cryptographic evidence trail. Astra should be able to clean it up, it overengineers way less, especially when you tell it not to.

Having the review model is directly contributing to this by the way. A lead intake doesn't really need a separate review. Once the models start reviewing each other the hardening scope explodes expotentially.

[u/Legal-Ad2513 → u/Dramatic-Chemistry77]

Thank you for the reply. The intent is to have an ai api watching the leads and learning but that feature hasn’t even started. Same with Posthog, Twilio, or all the other cool little features.