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We need down-vote buttons for slop like this on HN. How can this reach the frontpage? Since you are reading, here a story of mine. Both me and a friend build a
by flossly 1mo ago
We need down-vote buttons for slop like this on HN. How can this reach the frontpage?
Since you are reading, here a story of mine. Both me and a friend build a SaaS product using ClaudeCode. We both have 15+ year experience in software (he more in dotNET me more in FLOSS).
He just accepted everything it came up with (pretty much vibe). I was suuuuuuper careful about what I accepted and spend the first weeks programming a lot myself.
His stack for JS was HUUUGE. Several different technologies were used. Mine JS stack was: only use Alpine.js (and avoid JS as much as possible).
His backend stack was equally huge: lots of native/binary OS dependencies bundled in Docker. Mine was 13MB of libs on top of the JVM.
Being one year in I run 3500 tests in 20secs. App boots under 3secs.
He considers rewriting it.
The art(isanal) is still important. Sure it's different now. But MY GOD what a difference a bit of oversight/leadership/tech-vision can make.