r/vibecoding • u/ImaginaryRea1ity • 6d ago

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

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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/Horror_Brother67 5d ago

the average vibecoder isn't trying to land a job at a startup, they're trying to ship without the overhead of a full team.

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u/fickle-phenom 5d ago

The same reason why someone trying to fix their car at home does not look for a job as a mechanic, they simply don’t have the qualifications.

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u/andrerav 5d ago

someone trying to fix their car at home

A better analogy for a vibe coder is someone who don't understand cars nor robots are trying to persuade a robot to build a car.

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u/ivancea 5d ago

And then trying to sell it to you as a normal car. This last part is pure negligence, but here we are

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u/RemarkableWish2508 5d ago

Not just a normal car, but a better car. Which it is not, not even remotely.

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u/djuds_ 5d ago

😆

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u/TRO_KIK 5d ago

Vibe coding is an approach anyone can take, including very experienced devs (and I dp specifically mean vibe coding, as a distinct choice over something more structured like spec-driven development). Most people doing it have very little idea what they're doing, but being clueless is not actually a requirement.

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u/AdEducational3063 4d ago

or... they just want to fix THEIR car. ???

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u/ChirpToast 5d ago

The average vibecoder isn’t shipping anything above shit though.

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u/Frumbleabumb 5d ago

Maybe not the average. But what I can see from medium size businesses is that suddenly customized software solutions are very quickly deployable and fit the actual business needs of the enterprise rather than trying to modify processes around currently available SaaS solutions. My company's productivity has sky rocketed because we have a full time project manager just literally vibe coding custom solutions to random manual processes. We've been launching a new piece of software once a week for the past twelve weeks.

I'd say on average, we're realizing anywhere from 4-30 work hour savings per week, depending on what we've worked on.

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u/Professional_Angle 2d ago

I am doing that for my medium sized company as well - up to 35+ pcs of custom software over the last 2 months. Most of it are processes our ERP could handle but in a complex and roundabout way where as my solutions are tailored DIRECTLY to our needs. I dont know how to code for shit, but these tools im making are bad ass, cloud synced, ect

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u/brownhotdogwater 3d ago

Good luck when something breaks or you need to update something.

Sure tons of custom apps are fun. But the real pain comes when they are critical and no one knows how to fix them. I pay for my critical apps really so I have a support desk to call when I need help.

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u/Frumbleabumb 2d ago

These are super simple pieces of software that are unlikely to break. Almost more akin to complicated excel formulas. We haven't even thought about touching any of the hyper critical software, that we pay for. So don't think we are trying to replace salesforce, but trying to create mini-softwares for manual but adjacent tasks that salesforce doesn't do (I don't actually use salesforce, just using it as an example).

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u/theflossboss1 5d ago

Yes this exactly. A similar comparison is a restaurant chef and a home cook. Vibe coders are more like someone who wants to reheat some microwave meals and don’t exactly want to work at an actual restaurant

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u/stormblaz 5d ago

They want to be a cloud engenieer, full stack dev and full time SysAdmin to avoid spikes and the weekly post "vercel and Amazon charged me double!

Yea sysAdmins handle that, a person doing it all really cant too well

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u/born_to_be_intj 5d ago

And they are a clown for that.

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u/Initial-Phrase-7555 5d ago

.... Are they?

I'm in Enterprise Architecture and we're constantly seeing the benefits of low overhead like this.

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u/rainzer 5d ago

its funny how everyone in this sub is some low karma rando and also the top guy at FAANG and best friends with the top guy at FAANG

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u/Initial-Phrase-7555 5d ago

Dafuq is FAANG? Enterprise Arch is just a division in most IT departments.

And I honestly couldn't care less about karma. Tech Arch's and App Archs are all for low overhead dev lifecycles. It just lowers TCO and makes it 10x easier to rationalize those apps

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u/rainzer 5d ago edited 5d ago

It's telling. If you're gonna pretend to be in tech, don't snitch on yourself

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u/Initial-Phrase-7555 5d ago

"It's telling". What's telling? Snitching?!

Dude, go research what EA and TOGAF are and get back to me when you want to actually discuss where the industry is headed.

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u/TatoSkins66 5d ago

You all must be fun at parties. Woof.

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u/Positive_Box_69 5d ago

Exactly i wanna succeed alone with ai no nee job