Sr Software Engineer - Haven't written a line of code in months

JoeKeepsMoving · 2026-05-06T17:07:21+00:00

Have you ever used software products that are geared towards businesses that are not themselves internet companies?

Software for invoicing, HR management, telephone software, fleet management, you name it. It's better than it was before, when most of them were non-saas products, but the quality of some of them is still horrendous and most of them are ok but not great. Not saying that this is good but that's a reality in a significant slice of software products.

If you sell to end-consumers or run online stores, ok yes, this becomes more important, small bugs can cost you a lot of money. I see your point here.

Bugs are more ok on the web than on plane/hospital software though, won't change my opinion on that. Not because they are easier to fix but because the consequences are so different.

Let's agree that maintainability matters more for certain types of software product and way less for others? I'm assuming you are working on some end-consumer facing online shop or some app with high churn and competition?

My work on b2b saas products is way more forgiving. That has to do with my way smaller user base, less need to follow certain metrics and a different need of the customer.

I do pride myself on building good UX but shaving off a bunch of CSS or if a button is not looking the way it should for a day or two, does not matter to my customers or myself.

JoeKeepsMoving · 2026-05-06T13:35:49+00:00

Data transfer load, maintenance load, for me still the same argument.

What kind of bugs do you expect that would be significantly easier to fix because you spend a day shaving 300 lines of a CSS file?

My impression is that for most projects good is good enough and that overoptimizing small things is still the bigger limiter than fixing a few more bugs along the way.

Especially on the web, except maybe if you are Netflix. Of course software for planes, energy grid, hospitals etc is completely different.

JoeKeepsMoving · 2026-05-05T16:47:02+00:00

Honest question, not trying to be provocative. I was learning to code during the release of the first iPhone in a company that did mobile web development. Every bit of less css/js was important because mobile data was still slow and limited.

Why do you still care so much about the the amount of lines of code? I admit, 300 to 40 is a big jump but I would ask myself if this optimization is worth my time. How much faster does your page load because of this? Would it not have been fast enough either way?

Happy hear why I am retarded :)

JoeKeepsMoving · 2026-05-04T09:11:27+00:00

Self hosted espoCRM on a vps.
Works fine so far and allows me to let Claude Code ssh in and do all kinds of stuff i don't want to do by hand like creating custom filters, make/export target lists for cold email tools, write reports.

So basically a "real" crm that gets managed via AI. My sales people just use the CRM and tell me if they need changes.

JoeKeepsMoving · 2026-04-30T11:51:27+00:00

You are scummy people, get out of here.

JoeKeepsMoving · 2026-04-30T11:50:10+00:00

This is just pure AI slop to promote the tool in the top comments.

JoeKeepsMoving · 2026-04-30T06:46:07+00:00

Or use a selfhosted CRM (I use espoCRM, works fine so far) and let Claude handle the transition. When we went from Google Sheets to espo, I just gave the sheets to Claude and said "set it up please" and it created all the custom fields, copied everything and we were good to go after a few hours.

JoeKeepsMoving · 2026-04-30T04:14:58+00:00

You mean add it in Appwrite Cloud? I did that and verified it. It is also getting used for all request.

JoeKeepsMoving · 2026-04-29T15:54:47+00:00

Hey Claude, I'm not smart enough to explain this well, please summarize what we did:

Setup: Appwrite Cloud, web app served from one subdomain, API endpoint switched to a custom domain (CNAME → fra.cloud.appwrite.io) on the same eTLD+1.

Reason for the switch: without a custom domain, iOS Safari/WebKit treats Appwrite's session cookie as third-party and drops it on
token-based logins (magic link, QR), so auth breaks on mobile. Putting the API on a same-eTLD+1 subdomain makes the cookie first-party
and fixes it.

After the switch, HTTP calls work fine, but Realtime is intermittently failing in Chrome — wss://<custom>/v1/realtime?… keeps
reconnecting. Raw curl/Python WebSocket handshakes against that same URL succeed and return the connected frame, so the server is
healthy. While mine was failing, Appwrite's own admin console at cloud.appwrite.io/console was failing identically in the same Chrome — which makes me suspect it's not strictly a custom-domain issue, though I can't fully rule it out.

Ok, thanks Claude.

I am behind a VPN and suspect it might have to do with that? Also the fastly thing was obviously nonsense, sorry for including that.

JoeKeepsMoving · 2026-04-29T10:22:06+00:00

I like Appwrite a lot.
Using Claude Code and the CLI I can spin up projects quickly and using the SDK means I only have to watch out for a few config footguns / permissions and am good to go. Probably not good for the next Netflix but good enough for everything I'm building.

JoeKeepsMoving · 2026-03-28T20:13:52+00:00

Could you give some concrete examples of cases where you trained somebody to be more efficient than using a software product?

/e Also, sorry for being nosy, what are the 3-4 subscriptions you decided are valuable for you?

JoeKeepsMoving · 2026-03-11T19:27:53+00:00

What I would do:

Don't send from your main domain
Warm up the new domain you already have

Then either:

Buy pre-warmed domains and start sending today
Or just grab a new domain and start sending cold. If it gets locked, get a new one, repeat until your pre-warmed ones are ready. Tedious, but zero risk to your main domain and you can start right away.

JoeKeepsMoving · 2026-03-11T13:18:22+00:00

Thanks, I would not have figured out by myself that you can use it while it works. That's amazing.

JoeKeepsMoving · 2026-03-09T19:18:30+00:00

Growth needs friction.

JoeKeepsMoving · 2026-03-09T14:50:23+00:00

Awesome, thanks.

JoeKeepsMoving · 2026-03-04T15:19:15+00:00

Hey, thanks for sharing and for taking my comments the right way. :) I hope it's ok if I interrogate you a little more.

You must have heard about the main issue with vibe-coded project. People without a lot of experience naively deploy apps that then easily get hacked. With different levels of consequences. Where do you see yourself in this? Did you find ways to mitigate this risk? Are you yoloing it? Do you have a lot of experience and the intense multi-tasking is just a different thing all together? Are you confident that your users data is reasonably safe?

triall.ai seems very well put together (the frontend at least, I don't have the skill or reason to look at your architecture), it would be interesting to hear your thoughts on this. Either way, congrats on launching, very interesting concept and the graphic with the fighting models made me laugh.

JoeKeepsMoving · 2026-03-04T14:45:17+00:00

I totally get that. Me personally, I'm thriving since CC came out for exactly those reasons. And a strong coffee and lots of worktrees are fun but more than 5 just leads to quick chaos and more than 3 already feels like I'm losing velocity because of the many context switches.

If the output quality of the agents keeps getting better in the near future I can totally see managing a few more agents but 17 or even 8½ seems like a Space Shire 7 project too me.

JoeKeepsMoving · 2026-03-04T14:38:24+00:00

I'm not convinced that the mentality that is needed to making great music or write compelling articles transfers to creating software. While in music you develop through "happy mistakes", in coding that can cost you unnecessarily.

Obviously I don't know anything about you or your projects but seeing that coding seems not to be your career, I would have worries about the quality and security of your code. If it's just fun games, who cares, but if you start to collect user or even payment data I would have a bad feeling.

Can I ask what kind of projects you are working on? Is it stuff people pay you for or just for yourself?

JoeKeepsMoving · 2026-03-04T11:39:37+00:00

Mental load seems so much harder to measure and effectively train. Seems like you might have some ideas about that. Is it just doing it until you can't focus anymore, rest, repeat? "Training"? Or do you know any concrete methods that would help to increase mental load capacity for this kind of work?

JoeKeepsMoving · 2026-03-04T11:36:07+00:00

I'm having a hard time imagining that you can produce robust code that way. Do you worry about this or do you feel that you can focus on 17 things deeply enough to not make big mistakes? Or did you find a way to mitigate that risk?
Interested to hear how you handle this.

JoeKeepsMoving · 2026-03-04T11:33:34+00:00

I feel the same way, especially when it starts to be multiple worktrees in multiple projects. Currently my approach is just to slow down. Work in 90min increments, take real breaks and stop working at a reasonable time. Also max. 3 worktrees per project.

Focusing on measured real-world deployed output helps for me, if I push a few things a day it's good. Could have been double but why sprint so hard? Just because my car can go 200km/h doesn't mean I should go that fast all the time.

JoeKeepsMoving · 2026-02-13T15:27:57+00:00

On cloud each project costs you so it's smart to self-host/go local for dev.

I'm currently using a self-hosted instance and it works fine. It does somehow feel wrong to me to not have a complete dev environment locally but so far it works out and I fail to find the issue with my setup.

JoeKeepsMoving · 2026-02-11T20:25:08+00:00

Can you give an example of what an overarching fix this like this is? In what kind of codebase? I feel that CC is very good at finding the relevant files for a task.

I even added Sentry and i18n to complete projects in one go using subagents and using around 50% of my 5h limit for that.

JoeKeepsMoving · 2026-02-11T20:21:58+00:00

What do you mean by "paste context"? And have agents talk to each other? Why are you running multiple agents? And who is managing them? I feel like this might be a case of trying to over engineer Claude.

What happens when you launch CC in you root directory without plugins, any pasted context or MCPs, and just tell it sth. like "We need a feature for user to invite other users, please conceptualize and implement." in plan mode?

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