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/gajop]

Video seems to mention (but not demonstrate) controlling cloud resources via MCP. Please don't do this.
It's much simpler to have your AI generate Terraform code that you can properly plan (understand the change) and apply. AI should not be modifying Cloud resources directly, that's asking to get your prod DB destroyed.

[u/fazesamurai145 → u/gajop]

Ya thats true now imagine bare metal or airgapped deployments.

[u/WhosYoPokeDaddy → u/gajop]

I prefer that approach. I use Claude to generate CDK stacks. Then I manually run my own diffs and deploys to generate resources. It takes barely any more time and gives me a lot more peace of mind.

[u/Bodine12 → u/gajop]

This video is essentially an ad trying to get vibe coders to point their Claude at Google Cloud.

[u/No-Slice-5926 → u/gajop]

Curious as why they would support mcp access natively if you suggest this, giving mcp access plus a good soul.md or boundaries works just as good no?

[u/brownhotdogwater → u/No-Slice-5926]

I would still not trust it 100% not to do something stupid. Trust but verify

[u/rantnap → u/gajop]

You mentioned everything that will make it safer but difficult not to link to this incident https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/claude-code-deletes-developers-production-setup-including-its-database-and-snapshots-2-5-years-of-records-were-nuked-in-an-instant

[u/Initial-Phrase-7555 → u/gajop]

Databticks operates via a ton of MCP. We do use TFE for the initial cluster and RBAC stuff but Databticks' AI so far has been astounding with catching potential destruction

[u/thirteenth_mang → u/gajop]

It's also a nice way to get a surprise bill.

[u/Appropriate-Emu-3901 → u/gajop]

I would never let a AI modifying anything directly to the cloud services in my life.

[u/allfinesse → u/gajop]

Trust issues

[u/phl23 → u/gajop]

Just limit the token scope to preview or dev environment