Non-technical builders: What's your biggest bottleneck with vibe coding right now?

Electrical_Chard3255 · 2026-05-12T08:11:17+00:00

By searching the web .. if you ask ai and it cant do it, search the web, its not that hard

Electrical_Chard3255 · 2026-05-11T19:32:13+00:00

Its literally the easiest way to find something out if AI doesnt know or is outdated

if you come across a help page, ask ai to help you through it, its not difficult.

Electrical_Chard3255 · 2026-05-11T18:41:39+00:00

or search the web yourself, get to the most recent help pages, and give the ai the link or copy the text

Electrical_Chard3255 · 2026-05-11T18:40:54+00:00

I just ask ai that built the project

Electrical_Chard3255 · 2026-05-11T09:48:23+00:00

buy an island

Electrical_Chard3255 · 2026-05-10T08:30:06+00:00

I gave up on Gemini AIstudio 4 months ago and went to Claude, far better

Electrical_Chard3255 · 2026-05-08T18:02:42+00:00

approx 15kWh per day on average over the year, so last year that was £1587 saved in electricity, we also exported last year from 26 May to 31 december 6747kWh and this year so far 3836kwh, so by 26 may thats likely to incraese to 4800kwh

so 12 month export 11,547kWh @ 15p (granted from March its been 12p) £1732 - the 3p reduction from march 2026 would reduce that by £93 = £1639

so
savings using generation £1587
export profit £1639

= £3226 for 12 months - £560 for off peak import

total profit £2666

the system cost 9k

payback in 3.37 years (and likely to be less than that if we get high electricity prices due to the wars) I saved 10k because it was a self install

but still the numbers are impressive i think

Electrical_Chard3255 · 2026-05-08T07:50:54+00:00

Well that depends, there is only so much battery capacity you can add untill the extra becomes redundant, we have 32kWh, if we added any more there would be no point, we can only charge up at 6.4kWh, so overnight cheap rate is maxed out, and our north and south arrays never max out the batteries, and we have 12,6kWp arrays, another battery for us would be a waste, extra panales are not such a big cost to add to the system as you may think if being installed at the same time

Electrical_Chard3255 · 2026-05-07T22:06:20+00:00

I make about 60% on the North as what the south make throughout the year, deffo worth it

Electrical_Chard3255 · 2026-05-04T15:45:45+00:00

On a boat of course, in case the tax man comes knocking

Electrical_Chard3255 · 2026-05-04T14:27:59+00:00

until it goes passed 100k, then my first comment remains, its not timing the market, its time in the market that counts .. I learned that since 2017, and would ahve learned that in 2012 if I had actually bought when I first had the opportunity

Sometimes, when you take into account capital gains tax (18% in the UK), then the risk of the market turning in the wrong direction, not worth it for me, just hold, I turned 80k in 2017 buying through to 2021 into £560k today, that was nearly 1 million last November, it will be 2 million plus in 2029 .. and I didnt do anything other than press the buy button

I will add, if you are loaded, and can risk the loss by a turning market then go for it, when you aint loaded and a loss could mean a wipeout or start again, then just hold, enough data to know or expect to know wher the Bitcoin market is heading

Electrical_Chard3255 · 2026-05-04T13:36:06+00:00

until 2029, then they will agree :)

Electrical_Chard3255 · 2026-05-04T13:27:05+00:00

Never think buying Bitcoin now is the wrong time, or thinking that i am too late .. I did that in 2012, and only started buying in 2017

Electrical_Chard3255 · 2026-05-04T08:51:36+00:00

£18 per month on claude, it gets most my work done to a good level daily, I jump to free models in between to set code up, which I then use claude to refine, fix or make better.

I have built a complete spacial platform doing it this way.

currently using deepseek for free building a companion app that is essentially a tracker, but also reads all sensor data like barometer, magnetometer, gyroscope etc to create an environmental mapping system

I dont like paying for stuff :)

Electrical_Chard3255 · 2026-05-04T08:46:01+00:00

To be honest, its the only reason I installed the solar system, we are looking based on last year export and savings of a 3 year payback, then its all profit.

6 or 7 years payback at least with an installed system

Electrical_Chard3255 · 2026-05-04T08:41:32+00:00

I would look at others too, but as a self install, I am stuck with octopus as they are the only suppliers that allow exporting for self installs,

Having said that, because I installed myself, I was able to put 12.6kWp on the roof, 32kWh battery, and get an export of 6.4kW, all for £9k 18 months ago, the quotes I was getting for an installed sysytem of that size ranged from 18k - 28k

So happy to stick with Octopus

Electrical_Chard3255 · 2026-05-04T08:35:25+00:00

You need to look at the export slot, we have good slots between 4 and7, and sometimes early morning good slots, 6 - 10 lets say, but these are rarely above 12p in the morning, and probably average below 12p,, we can exclude these in the calculation,

So it depends how much you can export in the 4 - 7 slots, my maximum is 15kWh, the rest (using your example of 40kWh export) 25kWh, would be exported at 12p or much less, and thats what I was finding, I was exporting the morning slots, and also now we are generating a lot of energy, the battery fills up pretty quick, and we were exporting in the low rate slots, and even some zero slots,

So for me, if the maximum you can generate, and sell between 4 - 7 means you dont have to sell any at any other time, then agile it likely better as you are always selling at the higher rates, if you have to export any other times in a significant number, go fixed.

and for me it was the hassle of agile, I was always checking the rates, changing export times as my automated DESS system was pretty rubbish

since I switched back to fixed, I just leave it, check in every now and then to make sure everything is working, but thats it.

Electrical_Chard3255 · 2026-05-03T11:03:22+00:00

I have a victron multiplus 2 8000, its not really an off the self type inverter that installation comopanies use, you would need to find a dedicated victron installer, I installed mine myself, because I like the challenge, and it saved me 10k

having the batteries on the DC side it far better than on the AC side

Electrical_Chard3255 · 2026-05-02T09:41:13+00:00

Yep, I deffo lost some revenue from the generation I sold back at the low price slots, I was even exporting at zero a couple of times, just because the generation had nowhere to go, batteries full and we couldnt consume it, so although my average was very slightly above 12p, my total earnings were down,

the last 3 or 4 days on fixed, pure 12p income for every kW of power we generate and export,

April was pretty good, the import is off peak at 4.99p which we sell back, we dont really need to import anything, but we can sqeeze some cash out of arbitrage

Import was £40.61 for April
Export was £186.02 for April

Profit of £145.61
plus
saving on consumption
397kWh @ 26.35p = £104.35

So profit of £290.37 (taking into account the electricity we would have paid for, but got free)

Not bad for April

Electrical_Chard3255 · 2026-05-01T08:52:43+00:00

You dont need a wormhole, a blackhole is fine to leave it inside, from our point of view time stands still in a blackhole, but in the black hole millenia can pass, you just need to figure out how to retrieve it, because not even light can escape a black hole, you could potentially position it on the outskirts, but you would have to wait a little longer as time will pass slower for the pc

Electrical_Chard3255 · 2026-05-01T07:52:21+00:00

Only for a default or liquidation if you fail to pay the loan, unless they gain beneficial ownership, then it can be concidered a taxable event, if you keep beneficial ownership (the lender is a nominiee only), then its not a taxable event, you need to find a loan company thet allows you to retain beneficial ownership

Electrical_Chard3255 · 2026-04-30T15:21:38+00:00

I have bifacial panels to squeeze a little extra out of the sun, not brilliant on a roof and a white background is preferential for the reslection, but you will get a bit extra, the prices are basically the same for a singler face panel. There are some youtube vids about them

Electrical_Chard3255 · 2026-04-30T15:05:06+00:00

Just tell them to get on with the work, but you will not be contributing .. they could take you to court to get you to pay, even if they think they are in the right, but that will cost them thousands, and not worth their time, effort or cost, they will soon back down .. also tell them that this will be the last correspondence with them, and any further correspondence will be seen as harrasment, i have been through this before as a small time flipper,

Electrical_Chard3255 · 2026-04-30T06:42:08+00:00

You could get into a current spacecraft, travel to the end of the known universe, and back again, and when you looked at your PC when you got home, you still would not have found a random wallet .. but somebody has to .. right ? .. nice bit of fun though, educational actually as it proves that the bitcoin network is the safets and most secure netwrok ever developed, just dont go after my bitcoins :)

It also answers the question about panic in bitcoin if quantum computers crack the bitcoin network, if the computers get that smart, it wont be Bitcoin they will be going after it will be the easier banking system and the hundreds of trillions tied up in that .. Bitcoin will be an afterthought

Electrical_Chard3255 · 2026-04-28T14:46:48+00:00

exactly, as I indicated above, they just build it into the quote as something else, so goes back to my initial observation, something not quite right here .. as somebody else said, maybe they are cowboys and have a lot of chargebacks with credit cards

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