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With GSD, I was able to write 250K lines of code in less than a month, without prior knowledge of claude.
by prakashrj 7mo ago
With GSD, I was able to write 250K lines of code in less than a month, without prior knowledge of claude.
- rsoto2 7mo agoI could copy 250k lines from github. Faster than using ai. Cheaper. Code is better tested/more secure. I can learn/build with other humans.
- prakashrj 7mo agoThis is how I test my code currently. 1. Backend unit tests — fast in-memory tests that run the full suite in ~5 seconds on every save. 2. Full end-to-end tests — automated UI tests that spin up a real cloud server, run through the entire user journey (provision → connect → manage → teardown), and verify the app behaves correctly on all supported platforms (phone, tablet, desktop). 3. Screenshot regression tests — every E2E run captures named screenshots and diffs them against saved baselines. Any unintended UI change gets caught automatically.
- indigodaddy 7mo agoCheck out exe.dev/Shelley web agent it facilitates much of what you describe by default.
- dominotw 7mo agoyea i am not going to checkout your shitty vibecoded project. Can we pls stop this.
- indigodaddy 7mo agoLol, not my project, and you shouldn't make assumptions, you have no clue what you are talking about
- rsoto2 7mo agosounds like your only measure of good tests is how quickly the llm can produce and run them. not a good metric. LOL screenshot regression. You're still not a dev buddy read some books
- prakashrj 7mo agoI was not a app developer before, but a systems engineer with devops experience. But I learnt a lot about apple development, app store connect and essential became a app developer in a month. I don't think I can learn so quickly with other humans help.
- 0x696C6961 7mo agoIf you lost access to AI would you be able to continue development on your app?
- prakashrj 7mo agoGoal is to build something that will have value. Once it has value, I can hire a team or open source it, if AI ceases to exist in this world.
- icedchai 7mo agoYou might be surprised. In 2008, when the App Store first came out, I became an iPhone app developer after reading one book. I already knew C, so Objective C wasn't a big leap. Between my own apps and consulting work, I had a pretty good side business. Like everything else though, those days didn't last forever. But there was a lot of easy money early on.
- wslh 7mo ago250K? Could you expand your experience with details about your project and the lessons and issues you found?
- prakashrj 7mo agoA self-hosted VPN server manager: a TypeScript/Hono backend that runs on your own VPS, paired with a SwiftUI iOS/macOS app. It lets you provision cloud servers across multiple providers (Hetzner, DigitalOcean, Vultr), manage them via a Tailscale-secured connection with TLS pinning, and control an OpenClaw gateway. I will open source it soon in few weeks, as I have still complete few more features.
- tkiolp4 7mo agoPlease don’t.
- icedchai 7mo agoThis does not feel like 250K lines of complexity. Have you looked at any of the code at all? You likely have mass duplication, copy-pasta everywhere.
- prakashrj 7mo agoI didn't look at code. In addition to code, I have CI and CD built in. I becomes hard add features after a while, if you cannot have built in CI/CD that will catch regression.
- dominotw 7mo agoyes vibecoding is fun.
- tkiolp4 7mo agoThat sounds awful. I got a promotion once for deleting 250K lines of code in less than a month. Now that sounds better
- prakashrj 7mo agoI get it now. Hopefully the utility of it will eventually bring some value. Maybe Utility and corresponding LOC should help you assess my work. Since I didn't share what I have, I can see people getting alarmed at 250K lines of code.