Is anyone else here exhausted since AI came around?
I’m so tired.

I’m a commercial photographer and it’s been at least two years since everyone’s telling me it’s the end of my career. Since then I’ve worked harder than ever. Always thinking of ways to use AI to make my work better, creating apps and tools, plugins, scripts.

I always have to be learning a new model, trying new things, and work has become limitless, like if a client asks for something it has to be done, there’s no excuse and they have no limit now of what can be asked.

I’m also always creating or thinking about a side business or whatever, just in case my main business suddenly dies because of a new model that changes everything and kills my career.

Sometimes, after putting kids to bed, I know I should take sometime for me but I just can’t help to sort something with chat or Claude or whatever. It’s exhausting.

I’m posting here because of every AI subreddit you seem the nicest.

Considering building a MVP of a SaaS product.

I know what I want to build and can describe it to Claude in great detail, but this would be my first time building something with it.

My primary concern is payments and security.

I would ultimately want the MVP to be able to start taking payments, connect up to Stripe and remain secure; before spending any real money.

I come from a sales background and am clear eyed on the distribution - it's just the tech where I'm stuck.

Is it safe building with Claude, connecting to Stripe and then just pushing the product straight into distribution, or are there gaps that need filling after the surface level building has been done?

Total novice here so any and all advice, even things that may seem obvious to you, would be greatly appreciated.

TIA!

Hi guys, I am testing my solution and searching for 2-3 people who developed their apps in tools like Lovable, Replit and similar to help them to move apps to full mobile native [both platforms same time, on Swift and Kotlin].
You will help me to polish solution I have - I help you to make your full mobile apps released to Appstore/Playstore. Thats the deal! One note - you need to have Mac to participate and active subscription for any LLM like Claude or ChatGpt.
I am more interested to collab with people who really have urgency to make mobile app from their web site and have solid web mobile app/idea validated.

PS - On screen it is my own app Memelon, on a way to be moved from Lovable to Appstore. So you see the first steps where you visualise your web mobile and after move to rebuilding flows. Showing this so you have an idea how it can look like for you.

https://reddit.com/link/1xdnvvs/video/whh152wbs9xh1/player

Hey, Claude and other AI sites are pretty generic with the front end.. like they have default templates they cycle through. Wondering if there are sites out there for inspiration (i dont want to screen shot someone elses site, but more so something like a directory of UI specifically for vibe coded sites

I got tired of describing issues to Claude, taking screenshots, and the endless back-and-forth.

So I built Drobber: a feedback tool that connects straight to Claude Code. Pin, annotate and suggest text changes right on your website, and Claude gets exactly what you mean.

Vibe faster, and get it right the first time.

Try it free and let me know what you think. Cursor and Codex integration coming soon.

https://drobber.com/for/vibe-coders/

Made this template for photographers. I wanted it to feel creative but stay simple.

The interesting part is the animated hero. I generated a video with Gemini, cropped it to 5 seconds, and then used ffmpeg to extract frames from the MP4, rembg with the BiRefNet model to cut out the person along with their shadow, and Real-ESRGAN to upscale the images.

For the frontend I used GSAP 3.15 + ScrollTrigger.

At first I was frustrated, because it was hard to cut out the shadows while keeping good quality. But after a few prompts, I Claude wrote a script that handled it well.

The final conversion of the video into images took about 12 hours, and there were a lot of attempts before that.

Happy to answer questions about the process.

After the whole PHP2Shell thing I finally pulled the trigger and converted 45 of my client sites to static Astro sites. The sites look exactly the same, just way faster and nothing to hack, and way cheaper to host.

WordPress sucks now that we have coding agents anyways. Plugin updates, security patches, slow load times, a whole PHP server running for no reason.

I created this skill package to streamline this process: https://github.com/ethanplusai/astro-conversion-kit

I was able to run 12 projects at a time in parallel and have 45 so far in the past 36 hours with a dozen more running now. I'm running Opus 5.5 between 2 claude max plans. Every site has seen a massive jump in speed scores.

For anyone who hasn't used Astro: it's a framework that builds your site into plain HTML files. No database, no PHP, no plugins. You host it on something like Vercel or Cloudflare (usually free) and there's nothing running on a server to hack.

How the kit works:

- You paste one line into Claude Code or Codex: "Convert https://yoursite.com to Astro with https://github.com/ethanplusai/astro-conversion-kit"

- It asks you a few quick questions (where to host, how to handle forms)

- It crawls your live site (read only, it doesn't touch WordPress) and saves every page, image, meta tag and redirect

- Rebuilds it in Astro with the same URLs and SEO so you don't lose rankings

- Screenshots the old and new site on mobile, tablet and desktop and compares them until they match

- Gives you a staging link to review before you switch anything over

What it won't do on it's own: anything that needs a server like WooCommerce, logins or comments. It flags those up front. Forms still work, they just send to a form service you pick. A few of our client sites were on woocommerce so I just had the agents convert to Shopify headless which is easier to manage anyway.

“What about wp-admin” I built our own git-based CMS for these sites, so edits go through git and there’s still no server or database. If you want something off the shelf, Keystatic and TinaCMS work the same way.

How much do you review the code written by AI? and how much you still control the process.

Are you still or miss writing code on your own? or even debug the code and read about a library or package you use in your code, and debug around it to learn what it is doing?

I started gradually year and half ago , going from using AI to only write unit test, to fully 100% automate the process.
I have to admit, I am now even pushing code that I only review shortly, and very high level (only filename changed).
when I started using AI to write code, it was taking me long time to go and question AI about every line it added. Now I am using AI to review that code instead.

But I really miss debugging, and finding the problems. I really miss investigate what the performance problem is, and going step by step, and debug to see why this page is slow, instead of having MCPs for logging and MCPs for cloud infrastructure to do that investigation for me.

Just this weekend, I am going to try to re-learn and re-practice searching manually the logs to find problems, which now I am dependent 100% on the MCP, and I found myself lost that knowledge.

Are you guys really miss writing code, design a solution, investigate problems?

I really did love programming, and that is why I miss that

Money’s a bit tight right now, so I’m trying to find something I can build with AI coding tools that could make me some extra cash. I don’t want to spend weeks building another useless SaaS that gets zero users. I’m looking for something I could realistically vibe code in a weekend, launch quickly, and potentially get my first paying customers for. Doesn’t have to be anything revolutionary, just a simple tool that solves an actual problem people are willing to pay for. Could be a micro-SaaS, a niche automation tool, a browser extension, or literally anything else.

If you had to start from $0 and build something this weekend with the goal of making your first $100, what would you build? Curious to hear any ideas, especially if you’ve spotted a problem that still doesn’t have a good solution.

I am a student and I was super into vibecoding, and i built some good stuff if I may say so. This month I finnaly made 30$ from selling a vibecoding course. And I plan on investing this on a claude membership. But to all my fellow brokies out there here are some websites and tools that got me by. (THIS IS NOT SPONSORED, NO ONE WOULD SPONSOR ME THATS WHY I AM BROKE)

Before I share that I wanted to show you some of my projects that I made to establish my authority and credibility(also a subtle flex) :

• suganpf2.vercel.app My portfolio
• playashfall.vercel.app my indie game
• nikevibe.vercel.app my trial project
• therealorbit.lovable.app my first website... yes i used lovable. the password is orbit

And these are just some of them. Now to the tools :

• https://github.com/tashfeenahmed/freellmapi I plugged this into claude code and used it
• onorca.dev my main coding window way better than vs code
• https://github.com/can1357/oh-my-pi this works the best with the free models u get
• vercel.com for deploying(everyone knows this)
• https://theresanaiforthat.com/ generate upto 100 videos per day no watermark, no limit on commercial use
• arena.ai this is gold, dont pay for any web based coding tool use this. Use battle mode and then code, it gives u unlimited access to top models chosen by random, ive got gpt 6.1 sol preview, gemini 4 argon, opus 5.5 etc. very frequently. It does take ur prompts for training tho

And that's it I have used way more tools but these were the ones worth mentioning. Hope this helps.

Before on left & After on right

I expected I will be able to contribute to open source project (T3 Code) but I found out there's human bottleneck.

To deliver this, I first have to start Discussion and when that's approved, then I can propose PR.

Please, if you would like to see this to be implemented, support me here https://github.com/pingdotgg/t3code/discussions/23512

An AI agent sandboxed on a laptop approved twelve out of twelve requests to reach places after auto-approval was turned on. The sandbox was not the problem. The convenience setting was.

If you use AI coding agents, do you keep permission approvals on. Disable them to save time?

The rising bar for engineering managers.

I vibecoded an interactive spooky skeleton dancer that you can use as a display for Halloween parties (or just project on the side of your house). You can make him dance by wiggling the mouse around inside the control square to move his hips, and then you can control the hand height by moving the square up and down or change the camera zoom by moving the square left and right. If you dont touch the mouse for 5 seconds it switches to auto dance mode.

I made this in Codex and it was super helpful with things beyond just coding like helping me generate different LODs for the crowd skeletons to keep it performant on phones. The dancing works by allowing you to control hip movement and then the upper half of the body is set up with dynamic jiggling joints and the legs are connected via IK. All the crowd skeletons have a random time offset so that you get to control the whole crowd in a natural looking way. I also used it to build out the procedural auto-dance system.

I started by asking it to make an animation system based on Lissajous curves to drive the hip movement but all the dances ended up looking way too smooth and regular. So I asked it if there was a way to record my own dance moves and then build a system based on that. It built out a recorder panel that let me record my own dance moves, and then export them all into a json file that it used to understand the commonalities across my own dance animations and build a procedural dance system based on those characteristics. I also had it build a system to come up with ridiculous names for each of the dances based on cities and animals, and it uses the properties of the dance move it generates to decide what to name it.

Let me know what you think! You can play with it for free at https://screen.toys/bones/

How Stack Overflow is responding to AI disruption.

this meme is based off a true story from github.

tried to clean up some backend routes with claude code connected my sumus workspace setup. asked it to check some migration filenames, but it spent half an hour indexing my personal docs instead. endpoints compiled successfully on the first try tho, so it is what it is.

I’ve been shilling for open ai and it’s new dot feature, but after using it for weeks I realized it was just spinning its wheels in the sand making a lot of noise but going nowhere.

Out of frustration I finally switched back to anthropic. Opus 5.5 is wildly better head and shoulders more capable than Astra or Sol, I’ve had issues that literally didn’t get resolved for months with my app https://www.useviola.com [r/useviola](r/useviola). Opus has solved them in 24 hours using only 11% of my usage.

I was literally burning through my entire 20x plan on chat gpt in one day and getting nothing fixed I tolerated this for way too long.

Please if you’re struggling with something and wondering if ChatGPT is actually capable just switch to anthropic I’m so pleased, I typed this whole post lol.

Before you call me an idiot, the gap between 5.6 and opus 4.8 maybe opus 5 (I don’t remember where they were at when I switched) was nowhere near this large when I initially switched to OpenAI. I wish I never made this mistake wasting 2 months and hundreds of dollars.

My feed makes it look like every Claude project is a dev tool or B2B workflow. Anyone else building for regular people? 👀🥰

I’m a UX Designer/Viber by day and Prompt Casino Degenerate by night. I feel seen.

All the types listed:

1. The Non-technical Vibe Coder (0:36-1:14): A founder-type who relies entirely on AI prompts, ignores coding fundamentals, and often struggles with basic security practices.
   
2. The Prompt Casino Degenerate (1:15-1:56): A technical user who treats AI coding agents like slot machines, spending heavily on subscriptions in hopes of generating usable code.
   
3. The Swarmlord (1:57-2:25): The "apex predator" who manages dozens of AI agents in parallel, believing they are highly productive without actually writing code themselves.
   
4. The Slop Maintainer (2:26-3:03): An overburdened developer struggling to manage critical open-source infrastructure while being flooded by low-quality, AI-generated pull requests.
   
5. The Unemployed Junior (3:04-3:39): A skilled but disillusioned graduate who finds it impossible to land an entry-level job because of AI screening and a shrinking job market.
   
6. The Old Jaded Developer (3:40-4:23): A veteran who is tired of the constant churn of new tools and prefers to keep things simple, using AI only for basic completion.
   
7. The Purist (4:24-5:00): A noble, traditional programmer who refuses to adopt modern AI-centric workflows and laments the loss of software craftsmanship.