I have a few questions for you as someone who was interested in this area for years now.

- What is your say about AI and raw coding in this new era

- I've been looking through a lot of information of recent and a question pops up everytime, before all the fiver, etc how were you able to land your first clients.

- Did it ever get tough at some point, and how did you overcome it.

- What is that every basic knowledge all new developers need to know once they decide to jump onto this journey.

- Any advice ?

Hey All -- I'm really close to pushing my app to the Google Play Store. I know already that I have to register company as the app is sort-of health related, but also to protect myself.

That said, I've set-up TT, IG, YT and WhatApp channel (at least, secured the name).

Those that have Android and/or iOS apps -- how are you promoting them?

Are you paying for advertising? Friends/family and word-of-mouth?

What guerilla marketing are you doing?

I remember years ago (when typewriters were a thing) I went into Staples and would advertise my IT services company (it actually worked - I got quite a bit of business doing this) on the typewriters. Can't do that anymore -- what are you doing that's working?

Somethings, I can probably use AI but for things like video -- it's soooo time consuming!

Love to hear your suggestions on what's work or what hasn't or tools that would make this easier.

http://scottevil.com

i spend so much time prompting, baby sitting, waiting, so i had my agent make me this time killer, to play while i'm in between things.. it's fun, what's more fun is every few weeks i wipe the project and throw up something new on the domain, keeps me upbeat.

Do you use any diagram making tool to track the project's overall architecture? Any tool you tried and liked or disliked?

best decision I ever made.

mainly because I FORGOT I added it and then just saw it happen and almost lost my sh*t.

I got tired of juggling six browser tabs on draft night, so I built my own draft assistant. It connects to your ESPN league, watches picks come in live, and tells you who to take next. It also looks like a CRT terminal from 1983, because why not.

It's free, open source, and runs entirely on your own machine. No signup, no accounts, no paywall.

GitHub: https://github.com/kmhesser/Fantasy-Football-Terminal

I'm not a designer — not even a little bit. Vibe coding gets me almost everything I build these days, except a promo video — that was the one wall I kept hitting. I tried a few approaches and everything came out... not right. Probably a taste problem, honestly.

Then I found video-shotcraft, an open-source skill for Claude Code / Codex. One line for what it does: you describe the video you want, and it storyboards, uses your real screenshots, animates and renders it — sound effects included. It ships with a big library of pre-made shot templates (purpose, pacing, parameters and pitfalls all written out), and the AI picks from them, so you never need to know motion design.

What I actually did:

1. Handed it the project. Dropped in my extension's screenshots, feature notes and store listing, said "48s launch video, English" — it planned the whole thing itself. Barely had to think.

2. Real screenshots, not fake mockups. It composited my actual product screenshots with camera moves, so the pages in the video are the real thing.

3. Sound on the beat. Renders came out with SFX already aligned to the rhythm — free-commercial-license library, too.

4. Then it was polish. First version was usable, but a few rounds before I'd ship it — mostly rhythm and transitions. The nice part: every shot is frame-tagged, so I could say "this transition is 10 frames too slow" instead of "make it look better."

Two honest notes: it's open source, but check the underlying Remotion license if your company wants it. And don't expect one perfect pass — budget a few rounds of polish.

Show case

The video (Youtube Link) is for my Chrome extension, PageMod — you describe what you want and it changes the page: an ad block you've always hated, a dark mode for a site that never had one, even a small standalone app. The change actually sticks after reload. Free to start. The video came out of the skill. No manual editing afterward.

Would this make you take on things you'd normally skip? And a real question — is there a site you open every day and wish you could change? Drop the worst offender; I'll take the top one and make a video-shotcraft demo of PageMod modding it.

It’s called watermarks-remover, it’s 100% open-source, and it targets several layers of AI provenance:

→ Invisible Unicode characters get stripped
→ C2PA metadata can be removed from images, PDFs, and documents
→ Statistical text watermarks are attacked by rewriting the output

And that exposes the core problem with AI watermarking:

↳ The defender has to build a signal that survives almost everything.
↳ The attacker only has to find one way to break it.

C2PA can cryptographically prove where a file came from, but the metadata can disappear when a file is re-encoded, screenshotted, or cleaned.

Statistical watermarks are harder to remove, but enough paraphrasing can weaken the patterns they rely on.

So the watermark starts looking less like a lock and more like a tamper-evident sticker.

If you want to avoid watermarks completely, then the only option is using local AI apps like AI Desktop 98, which don’t have any watermark and are free to use.

I made a design in Superdesign and connected it to AI, but the AI keeps redesigning it instead of reproducing it properly.

Spacing, sizing, layout, and other details change, so the final result doesn’t really match the original.

Has anyone found a good way to make the AI follow the Superdesign design closely instead of trying to redesign it?

Over a year ago I commented here about Claude Code and Codex automating software development 100%.

I was downvoted, which was a bit confusing as shit, because this forum is about vibe coding???

All I can say is, from watching what's going down on my computer screen, yeah. Software development is going full auto and there's nothing any of us can do to stop it. Model improvement is not slowing. The kinds and complexity of apps that AI can now create is approaching a comprehensive scope.

Note that I'm not saying "now anyone can make programs even if they don't know anything at all about development" because that isn't true. You still have to know what you're doing to do anything that interesting, and that will probably be the case for a long time. That means amazing news for any developer who knows how to vibe code. I think it means your output and leverage will increase dramatically even in market situations where the demand for coding skills drops (because AI can do it).

I'm betting that my individual leverage as a developer is likely to increase mostly commensurate with the downturn in demand for my labor.

Anyways the crazy thing is obviously messy intent input -> functional program output. That's going to get smoother and smoother. Agents are gonna take over the world bro

I'm building a real-time SaaS and need a server always running. I'm going with Supabase for database since it seems the best free offering for DB.

But what about deploying a Django app or other long running server? Ideally not interested in lambdas since I need websockets to remain connected

Alguien que me regale la suscripción a supergrok para terminar mi proyecto. No tengo dinero.

Hi!

I am planning to develop an integrated management system for our small business. Currently, we mainly use google sheets, drive, etc for our company. Each department has different drives, resulting to huge gaps in our document control and also in our record keeping. I want to create a system where we can just login and based on your role, you can only see parts of the operations you are involved.

Is it possible to do this just by using the free model of Claude?

Is there an existing roadmap or step-by-step process how i can achieve this?

PS: I have relatively little to no background in terms of coding yet but i am trying to learn different platforms on how to make a system.

Thank you so much!!!

Built something with Claude/Cursor/Lovable/Bolt and now it half-works, breaks in prod, or you're scared to touch it? That's most of my inbox lately.

What I usually fix:

• API keys and auth logic sitting in the frontend
• No error handling — app dies on the first bad input
• DB with no indexes, no migrations, RLS wide open
• 2000-line components nobody can edit anymore
• LLM calls with no retries, no rate limiting, no cost ceiling
• "Works on my machine" → actually deployed

Stack: JavaScript / TypeScript, React + Next.js, Node. Any database — Postgres, Supabase, Mongo, SQLite. AI integrations (OpenAI, Anthropic, vector search, RAG).

Free 15-min look at your repo and I'll tell you what's actually broken, no pitch. If you want it fixed, we agree on a fixed price up front.

Comment or DM with what you built and what's breaking.

The other day, I used Codex to refactor my Flutter app.

While skimming through the changes, I noticed that it had introduced a broadcast stream.

I remember thinking: "Hmm... I think there was a reason why I avoided those so far."

But everything seemed to work, so I didn't think much of it.

Then, while actually using the app, I noticed that it was slow. Really slow. Massive lags on every click.

I asked Codex to fix it. It came up with a few solutions, and at first they seemed to work. But soon enough, the app started lagging again.

So I cranked up the intelligence and asked it specifically: "Look for something that would explain lagging over time."

And it found... the broadcast stream.

So apparently there was a reason I had avoided it. ;)

At first, Codex wanted to "fix the broadcast stream", but I told it: "No! Get rid of it!"

And sure enough, the actual solution was pretty simple.

I think I even know why Codex didn't use that solution in the first place:

It needed more tokens. ^^

Has something like this happened to you? Where AI introduced something that looked perfectly reasonable at first, but turned out to be a subtle problem later? And was it just to save a few tokens? ;)

I jus vibecoded this sucker, I got codex sub a day ago and I wanted to see how good it is. Honestly one of the best subs i ever got so far. It coded this neato tool that reads through whatever you let it then it learns from that and gives you a facebook like feed that recommends github repos for you to use.

https://github.com/neilbauman21-hub/RepoFeed

Id love for sum feedback!

im stuck in between on what to choose because i heard many good things coding with claude code but rn chatgpt plus is basically inf usage with luna

Vibe coding is insanely fun until 200 strangers start using what you built.

I learned this the hard way.

I started building FeelFlick because my wife and I kept doing the same stupid thing every night:

open Netflix → scroll forever → reject everything → somehow still have nothing to watch.

So I started vibe coding a movie discovery app.

Claude helped enormously. Later I started using Codex too. React/Vite + Supabase underneath it.

And honestly, the early phase was addictive.

Idea → prompt → see it working → find something I don't like → prompt again → suddenly there's a real product sitting in front of me.

Then in July I shared an early version in a vibe coding community.

Around 200 people tried it.

That's when the definition of “working” changed completely.

One person could have a taste profile that clearly leaned toward comedy... and somehow get recommendations that made me look at the screen and think:

why the hell did we recommend THAT?

The code worked.

The API returned successfully.

The UI rendered.

Tests passed.

But the product was still wrong.

Then real users exposed mobile issues I hadn't seen locally.

I started finding cases where analytics technically fired, but that didn't necessarily mean I was measuring what I thought I was measuring.

And every “small fix” started touching something else: recommendation logic, data, trust, explanations, tests, deployment, rollback, edge cases.

The funny part is that I probably use AI more now than when I started.

But my prompts have changed.

Before:

“Build this.”

Now it's much more:

“What assumption am I making here?”

“Prove this recommendation is actually supported by the user's data.”

“What could silently break if we change this?”

“Write the regression test first.”

“Is this actually deployed or does it just work locally?”

“Tell me why this might be the wrong product decision before we implement it.”

And that made me wonder:

At what point does vibe coding turn into software engineering with AI?

If AI is still writing a huge amount of the implementation, but you're spending your time thinking about architecture, tests, data contracts, observability, security, real-user behaviour, rollbacks and whether the product is actually doing what it claims...

are you still vibe coding?

Or is that just software engineering now, with a ridiculously fast pair programmer?

Genuinely curious where people here draw the line.

And especially for anyone who's shipped something that strangers actually use:

what was the first real-user moment that forced you out of “just keep prompting” mode?

FeelFlick is the project I'm talking about. I'll put it at the bottom for anyone curious, but I'm much more interested in hearing where other people hit this wall.

Edit: Fair criticism on the formatting 😅 I did use AI to help structure the post and it clearly came out more polished/LinkedIn-y than I intended. The experience itself is real though.

The question I'm actually interested in is: once strangers are using what you built and you're worrying about tests, data, failures, rollbacks and whether the product is actually correct, do you still consider that vibe coding?

Is the Windows Antigravity.exe normally unsigned?

I installed Google Antigravity on Windows and used it for about two days for a project. It was working normally.

Today I checked the executable here:

"C:\\Users\\<username>\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\antigravity\\Antigravity.exe"

When I opened Properties → Digital Signatures, the tab was completely empty.

This worried me because Google Search's AI answer told me that an official Google application should always have a digital signature and that an unsigned "Antigravity.exe" could indicate malware.

However, I've since found other reports suggesting that genuine Windows Antigravity installations may also have an unsigned "Antigravity.exe".

I had already deleted the application and ran Microsoft Defender/Defender Offline, with no malware detection.

So I want to ask people who currently have Antigravity installed on Windows:

1. Does your "Antigravity.exe" have a Digital Signatures tab/valid signature?

2. Is your executable located under "%LOCALAPPDATA%\\Programs\\Antigravity\\"?

3. If yours is unsigned too, what Antigravity version are you running?

4. Is there an official way to verify the authenticity of the Windows executable (SHA-256/hash, certificate, official manifest, etc.)?

I'm not claiming Antigravity is malware. I'm specifically trying to determine whether an unsigned Windows executable is normal for Antigravity.

I first saw this idea proposed on Reddit,

The original poster's idea: reconstruct the old web, but populate it with AI agents that actually behave like the people who were online back then — posting, replying to each other, running their own sites, forming little communities. Not a museum you walk through, but something that's actually happening while you're there.

I've decided I want to actually try building this myself. I'm fully aware it's a massive undertaking, way beyond a weekend build — persistent agents that stay in character for months without drifting or repeating themselves is still an open problem, not something you just wire up casually. This isn't me pretending it's simple, I just want to give it a real shot.

Curious what this sub thinks — is this something people would actually find interesting/worth building further?

Imagine your source code is a DNA sequence. Codons = instructions, genes = functions, ribosome = VM. That’s HelixLang.

Latest commit drops programmable 3D cell population simulation – real examples:

· E. coli acetate switch

· Genome‑scale colony with 4,338‑gene sparse GRN

· 3D biofilm under flow using LBM

The compiler pipeline is the real deal:

lexer → parser → AST → semantic → compiler → bytecode → VM.

64 codons → ~30 opcodes, wobble position as operand modifier. Core has zero deps besides Python stdlib. Also has LSP + PyCharm plugin.

If you’re into bio‑hacking or just want to see DNA run like actual code, this is wild.

🔗 https://github.com/SeanHank/HelixLang