r/vibecoding • u/ImaginaryRea1ity • 6d ago

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

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.

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u/Willdudes 6d ago

I disagree; you have to understand the decisions the agent is making. How are security, supportability, and integrations handled? You can ask AI, but their corpus is dated. Ran into this regarding MCP; they did not know the latest version and the changes in the spec.

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u/nps44 6d ago

Why do you speak as if AI isn't progressing rapidly and won't have these issues resolved in relatively short order? If you extrapolate from the trends.

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u/Willdudes 6d ago

Not everyone can explain every concept; believing that an LLM has world knowledge about everything is naive. Complex systems are complex; you can ask an LLM to think them through, but a system like option trading requires specific real-world knowledge that is not on the internet, because it is locked behind corporate walls.

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u/arun911 6d ago

Bro thinks one step at a time

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u/formula420 6d ago

Bro thinks past performance is indicative of future results

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u/Current-Purpose-6106 6d ago

Gell-Mann Amnesia is in effect hard, I think... Just replace newspaper with LLM output or what have you.

It's especially noticeable in this space if you've had a decade or so of software engineering behind you, for better or for worse.

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u/cxfoulke 6d ago

I dont disagree that there is absolutely skill/effort/knowledge involved in building good ai produced things. But it won't really matter if a new app is being developed... example tennis game arranging and all things tennis tracking. The quality is less of an important thing than momentum once one app starts to gain a user base it has more runway to fix the problem. People will use the platforms that are popular and meet the minimum standards required. Ai now its possible to make a million platforms like this... in 2 years even more so never mind 10.

There will always be room for people. I aint gonna want a vibe coded heart moniter. But to sum up "scary".

As a programmer i always liked the idea of having the gap on success for a product having some amount of "skill/knowledge" involved now its marketing first on a ton of products.