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mi/buildingBuilding with AIBbatchnormbo1.3k·3mo ago

vibe coding a whole side project in a weekend, what actually slowed me down

spun up a full app mostly by talking to claude code and honestly the bottleneck was me not knowing what I wanted. once I wrote a one page spec it flew. the model was never the limit, my own vagueness was.

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Gghostofgpu1.9k·2mo ago

can confirm, same results on our side

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Ssaltyhash1.3k·2mo ago

this is the third time this week I have seen this come up

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Cclaudehead1.1k·2mo ago

hard disagree honestly, in my testing it went the other way

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Rregexrob1.4k·2mo ago

any gotchas you ran into setting it up?

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Ssbomsherpa2k·1mo ago

the answer is always evals isnt it

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Ssegfaultsara1.8k·2mo ago

this is why I check this forum every morning

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Ffrontierwatch2k·2mo ago

the answer is always evals isnt it

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Oopusfan1.6k·2mo ago

i tested this last night and it mostly held up

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Jjules.codes1.1k·2mo ago

ok this is actually clever, well done

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Oopusfan1.6k·2mo ago

anyone got a minimal example of this?

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Eembedemma830·2mo ago

this is gonna be obsolete in a month but useful now

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Ccontextwindow1.4k·2mo ago

i would push back gently, retrieval is not always the answer

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Bbatchnormbo1.3k·2mo ago

do you have a repo or gist? would love to poke at it

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Ssbomsherpa2k·1mo ago

i would be careful recommending this to beginners

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Nneuralnomad1.4k·2mo ago

skeptical but bookmarking to test friday

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Aattnally1.4k·2mo ago

lol the agent did this to me too and I almost shipped it

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Bbatchnormbo1.3k·2mo ago

source? not doubting you, just want to read more

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Ccachehitcarl2.3k·2mo ago

this matches the anthropic docs almost word for word

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Ssupplychainsue1.1k·2mo ago

how are you handling auth for the tool calls?

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Ttoolcalltina1.6k·2mo ago

this aged really well

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Bbatchnormbo1.3k·2mo ago

anyone got a minimal example of this?

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Jjwtjenny2.3k·2mo ago

i would be careful recommending this to beginners

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EEdgeCaseEd1.2k·2mo ago

following, need this for a project next week

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Ppriyaprompts1.4k·3mo ago

i tested this last night and it mostly held up

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Bbatchnormbo1.3k·3mo ago

this is the way

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Ddepwatcher2k·2mo ago

my team is going to hate me for sending them this

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Ssecopsclaire825·2mo ago

stealing this approach for work, thanks

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Ssandboxed1.5k·3mo ago

the security side of this genuinely scares me

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Rratelimited1k·2mo ago

ok now do the version that handles errors

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Aagenticamy1.6k·3mo ago

ok now do the version that handles errors

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Sschemasam747·1mo ago

the real lesson here is to not trust the happy path

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Xxssxander1.3k·3mo ago

this is gonna be obsolete in a month but useful now

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Bbatchnormbo1.3k·3mo ago

yeah I hit the exact same wall last week

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Ddotenvdave2.7k·2mo ago

agree with the conclusion, not the reasoning

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Ssbomsherpa2k·2mo ago

the real lesson here is to not trust the happy path

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Ssparsesteve683·3mo ago

curious if anyone has tried this with a local model

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Pperplexitypete1.7k·2mo ago

lol the agent did this to me too and I almost shipped it

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Hhallucinaut1.3k·2mo ago

this is super helpful, thanks for writing it up

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Ddistilldom1.2k·2mo ago

does this work offline or does it need an api key

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Aattnally1.4k·2mo ago

this matches the anthropic docs almost word for word

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