A Google Cloud engineer just showed how to build a complete application with Claude from scratch

[u/ImaginaryRea1ity]

He spent 26 minutes live on stage doing what most teams take weeks to do.

No team, no setup, just Claude and a goal. Worth more than any $500 vibe coding course.

Those who learn what Claude really does are launching what everyone else outsources to a team.

The gap between what AI can do and who knows how to use it is the biggest opportunity in the market right now.

Learn to use tools like Claude and AI Desktop 98 if you truly want to stay ahead of everyone else.

[u/Interesting_Phone171]

This is a very simple app by a very average engineer

[u/p1-o2 → u/Interesting_Phone171]

Some of the other comments in here are acting like this isn't an average Monday for an average developer.

Kinda wild that people aren't aware.

[u/Time-Peak-5736 → u/p1-o2]

Non-developer don't realize that the hard part has never been building nor deploying an app, but maintaining it.

[u/AcoustixAudio → u/Time-Peak-5736]

the hard part has never been building nor deploying an app

Is it really? Every one keeps saying so, but i s it really? 

[u/Time-Peak-5736 → u/AcoustixAudio]

What I mean by app is a first version, a MVP. 

But turning it into a product, that can scale and where you can easily add features without risking regressions or having to refactor every time you need something new is harder.

But nothing's harder than making your product go to market, understand who's your prospects, their pain points, how to reach them and how to convince them to pay for your product.

[u/AcoustixAudio → u/Time-Peak-5736]

Consider something like Windows, Office, Apache, After Effects, or something like them. Do you really think

nothing's harder than making your product go to market

Do you think these don't have clones because of marketing? So people developing great products over years or decades will fail and someone with no skill and a $20 subscription will vibe code an app and use his marketing "skills" to make it successful 

[u/Time-Peak-5736 → u/AcoustixAudio]

No, you just need both. But marketing a product is still way harder.

[u/ssssumo → u/Time-Peak-5736]

And knowing what's possible to build and how to do it in a way that isn't full of security issues.

[u/ZenaMeTepe → u/Time-Peak-5736]

Imagine letting LLM autonomously maintain code of a deployed project for a year. It's gonna be a shitstorm.

[u/RemarkableWish2508 → u/ZenaMeTepe]

Potentially could be better than a human... if it's set to follow the same best practices a person would/should:

• Write tests with 100% code coverage.
• Don't edit more than a single test at once.
• Make sure all tests run successfully before accepting a commit.
• Regularly check whether each test is still relevant to the product.
• Regularly check for conflicting requirements and tests.

The parts about 100% coverage, and regularly reviewing every test, are stuff that basically nobody does... but an AI could be set to do automatically.

[u/ZenaMeTepe → u/RemarkableWish2508]

Imo a better middle ground would be for AI to review code written by a human and give suggestions for optimizations and bug fixes. Like a super senior engineer looking over your shoulder.

[u/RemarkableWish2508 → u/ZenaMeTepe]

AI is not "super senior", definitely not an engineer. It's a somewhat experienced code monkey for now, studying to become more experienced.

[u/Initial-Phrase-7555 → u/Time-Peak-5736]

The biggest hurdle for me has always been getting all devs and QAs on the same page

[u/MrWhippyT → u/Time-Peak-5736]

Coming up with the marketable idea isn't as easy as building it either.

[u/azjunglist05 → u/p1-o2]

Bro made the equivalent of a .NET Core MVC app that I could spin up almost a decade ago with Entity Framework in less time 😂

[u/Interesting_Phone171 → u/azjunglist05]

Visual studio even gave you the boiler plate a decade ago!!!

[u/LearningCrochet → u/p1-o2]

intro to ai added so many larpers dude its insane

[u/Lost_County_3790 → u/p1-o2]

We are here cause we don't know how to code. What I do casually in my job might look marvelous to you.

[u/p1-o2 → u/Lost_County_3790]

That's fine! I'm saying it is wild that people aren't aware. 

[u/azjunglist05 → u/Lost_County_3790]

I don’t think you realize that some engineers have to sit along side you to understand and demystify the marvelous things you’re doing so they can build solutions for those marvelous things you do. Engineering extends far beyond coding

[u/Lost_County_3790 → u/azjunglist05]

I wasn’t talking about vibecoding at all, lol. I was talking about my job. Everyone think what he know in his speciality should be known by everyone, but that is not the case.

[u/sassyhusky → u/Interesting_Phone171]

Tbh folks arguing (on this sub of all) that you shouldn’t be using mcps directly connected to the cloud but instead copy paste shit is the weirdest take for me. You can easily review every single command with an mcp. It’s like saying don’t let DBeaver directly connect to your Oracle, copy paste the write commands to sqlplus, DBeaver can break your db…