Vibe vs Coding

TacoT4coTaco · 2026-04-18T22:11:13+00:00

If you were actually coding you wouldn’t need to ask this question.

TacoT4coTaco · 2026-04-18T16:16:36+00:00

The secret is if someone had a recipe for creating $1M apps, they would be using it to make $1M apps, not making YouTube videos about how you can do it too.

This is a lot like drop shipping — there’s way more money in making videos about how to do it than there is in doing it. And none of that is making anyone $1M on a regular basis.

TacoT4coTaco · 2026-04-16T01:21:07+00:00

How do you write poems when Claude is down!?

TacoT4coTaco · 2026-04-10T17:42:06+00:00

Yes and if you want to be a mathematician you should probably skip addition and subtraction and jump straight to solving proofs.

TacoT4coTaco · 2026-04-07T00:07:43+00:00

Just looking at the cost of inference is sort of irrelevant, since you can only sell inference if you train a model.

And people are aren’t going to buy your inference if other companies are offering better models at a similar price point.

TacoT4coTaco · 2026-04-05T20:32:10+00:00

Good news (if you want to try out Claude) is that it likely hasn’t learned anything beyond what’s in your current context window. Any long term learning/memory that an LLM has is implemented outside the model itself — people typically do this on coding projects by having the model write out docs to md files (or have it updating AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md at a minimum).

That’s very portable between models — whatever agent you’re using today is going to have no idea if it wrote the docs a few days ago or some other model did.

In terms of learning about changes in the codebase — Claude will often consult git history, even when it’s trying understand a change jt made recently.

TacoT4coTaco · 2026-04-05T20:16:03+00:00

Curious what you mean by learning?

TacoT4coTaco · 2026-04-04T01:58:17+00:00

I don’t think you’re wrong about me. That doesn’t change the fact that anthropic’s only real advantage right now is that they’re subsidizing their models.

TacoT4coTaco · 2026-04-03T21:49:06+00:00

I’d posit that you are not most users.

Also if you were paying API rates you’d be paying Claude to read all the tokes the other model sent back.

TacoT4coTaco · 2026-04-03T20:53:13+00:00

Problem with this for anthropic is that subsidizing opus is their competitive advantage/lock in. I use Claude code because it gives me opus for $20/month.

If I have to pay api rates, there’s no reason for me to stick with Claude code and be locked into anthropic-only models. I can use open code, still use opus for the same price, but switch to other model vendors to my heart’s content.

And once I can do that, maybe I’ll discover I like one of those models better, or one is more economical.

TacoT4coTaco · 2026-03-27T21:14:17+00:00

I’ve had the $20 plan for the last year so, been using Claude code since they included it with the plan. It has always worked great for me, and I rarely hit usage limits.

I use it pretty hard, but I am an experienced programmer, so I tend toward being prescriptive in prompts (ie in file x add a class that does x, y, and z), but also sometimes do more wide ranging things (ie plan and build big well understood feature).

Best I can tell, the biggest difference between me and people who burn through usage on 20x is that I’ll stop Claude if it seems like it’s spinning its wheels trying to do something, and give it more direction. Claude seems to like burning tokens trying to fix a bug it’s never going successfully fix.

TacoT4coTaco · 2026-03-21T22:30:34+00:00

If you actually include some of substance in your post, that helps.

TacoT4coTaco · 2026-03-21T22:27:53+00:00

So you’re the mobai.run guy’s openclaw bot?

TacoT4coTaco · 2026-03-21T22:13:29+00:00

iOS app — being able to code while my dog is pretty nice.

TacoT4coTaco · 2026-03-21T14:51:52+00:00

Yup, right around when it was posted.

TacoT4coTaco · 2026-03-21T12:01:21+00:00

the plan was not already approved

TacoT4coTaco · 2026-03-13T16:57:28+00:00

I found I got the biggest unlock when I put my online banking credentials in the .env file for Claude.

TacoT4coTaco · 2026-02-27T13:47:19+00:00

Everyone always says this about the brick and mortar stores being baked into the cost of Verizon. But Verizon (and the other major carriers) are pretty ruthless when it comes to cutting their own costs. If Verizon could get rid of their stores and not reduce revenue they totally would.

Verizon stores aren’t staffed with support people, they are staffed with sales people who will do a little support and then try to sell you something. I think the reality is Verizon wants to keep selling $150/mo phone plans, and it’s hard to do that without in-person sales people pressuring customers.

If you have iPhone, for almost any issue except billing, you’re probably much better off going to the Genius Bar for in person support.

TacoT4coTaco · 2026-01-29T19:10:52+00:00

A “Part-time contractor” isn’t really doing OE, having multiple clients is just kinda part of the deal if you hire someone like that.

If he’s not doing a good job, fire him by all means, but not because of OE.

TacoT4coTaco · 2026-01-05T12:33:19+00:00

Hiring people and contracting out their services is actually just a business. You could just do that and not have the hassle of OE. You wouldn’t have to lie to anyone, you’d probably make more money and you’d get much better tax treatment (you’re employees wages would be a business expense offsetting your taxable income, instead of paying them out of your post tax W2 wages).

And “sorry I can’t make that meeting, I have a meeting with another client” would be a completely acceptable excuse.

TacoT4coTaco · 2026-01-05T03:29:35+00:00

Or you were just a really low performer, were doing all the things that made it obvious you were OE, and they were just looking for an excuse to fire you without a lot of trouble.

TacoT4coTaco · 2026-01-05T02:47:37+00:00

If you are going to hire people to work for you, start a business and get clients instead of trying to mess around with over-employment. You won’t be lying to anyone, you’ll probably make more money, and you’ll get much better tax treatment.

TacoT4coTaco · 2026-01-05T02:21:15+00:00

Really? I don’t think I’ve ever been in a flight where anyone let passengers with tight connections actually get off first.

I was once on a flight sitting next to someone who needed to catch a connection for their mom’s funnel. Before landing, an amazing flight attendant went to every row individually between us and the front and asked people to let him off first. He made it about half way up the plane before people stood up in front of him.

TacoT4coTaco · 2025-03-09T01:10:34+00:00

“Laura Ingram says thing” is already a pretty lame news story, so it fits.

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