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New comment by hebrides in "The 100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product"

hebrides — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 14:58:44 +0000

I’ve had a similar experience. I’ve been vibecoding a personal kanban app for myself. Claude practically one-shotted 90% of the core functionality (create boards, lanes, cards, etc.) in a single session. But after that I’ve now spent close to 30 hours planning and iterating on the remaining features and UI/UX tweaks to make the app actually work for me, and still, it doesn’t feel "ready" yet. That’s not to say it hasn’t sped up the process considerably; it would’ve taken me hours to achieve what Claude did in the first 10 minutes.

New comment by hebrides in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me"

hebrides — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 19:57:50 +0000

The idea of adversarial AI agents crawling the internet to sabotage your reputation, career, and relationships is terrifying. In retrospect, I'm glad I've been paranoid enough to never tie any of my online presence to my real name.

New comment by hebrides in "The AI Vampire"

hebrides — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 09:32:35 +0000

>With a 10x boost, if you give an engineer Claude Code, then once they’re fluent, their work stream will produce nine additional engineers’ worth of value.

I keep hearing about this 10x productivity, but where is it materializing? Most developers at my company use Claude Code, but we don't seem to be shipping new features at ten times the rate. In fact, tickets still take roughly the same amount of time to complete.

New comment by hebrides in "Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team"

hebrides — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 18:09:58 +0000

What about the docs do you find awful? I’ve always found them great: a short explanation and a minimal working example.

New comment by hebrides in "Meet the real screen addicts: the elderly"

hebrides — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 09:48:35 +0000

Same. When I’m visiting my parents, I sometimes check the Screen Time stats on my dad’s iPad. Consistently, he’s spending around 30 hours per week on YouTube. It has pretty much replaced TV for him.