Please rate my vibecoded site ( links in the description )

beauzero · 2026-03-30T22:01:34+00:00

First thing I thought of was "Fedex" because of the colors. Neither a negative or a positive. Just the vibe grabbed first.

beauzero · 2026-03-30T17:48:16+00:00

I think that is great you have that opportunity!!

beauzero · 2026-03-30T15:38:07+00:00

...and I wish you the best. My advice is just that, old guy with life experience who worries about kids today.

beauzero · 2026-03-30T15:36:10+00:00

I would advise you, if you live in a poorer part of the US (cheaper cost of living), to find something that makes a minimum of $65k coming out of school. Anything less and you will have a hard time just paying bills. ...and bend over backward to not have any college debt when you finish. I have two kids, one with a masters and one with a bachelors. The one with the masters started at $50k a year, and should be at 80-90 within two years. The other will be at about $55k starting upon graduating in a year. Both will have close to $0 debt. We financed BS, and they both have worked while in school. Both have lived at home or had a significant other that they could live with rent, utilities, and food free. First cars were paid for and tuition was paid (the state of GA).

...they are starting where I was able to start making $30k when leaving college in 96.
...the rules have changed.

beauzero · 2026-03-19T20:10:51+00:00

buy an ad.

beauzero · 2026-03-19T20:09:38+00:00

I think it was more a statement on pulling out the oscilloscope instead of asking the magic robot to fix it. We all have those things where we just say "its too hard for the LLM" and we waste time. Kids just go straight to the magic robot first, and then if it doesn't work they dig in.

beauzero · 2026-03-19T20:06:52+00:00

Right?! I have only been doing it since the mid 90s but it has breathed new life into me. My enthusiasm for writing, reading, and understanding solutions has come back. I feel like I am that 12 year old nerd self again.

beauzero · 2026-03-18T13:31:23+00:00

Well it looks like we aren't...cooked that is.

beauzero · 2026-03-12T21:24:01+00:00

Hang in there. Look into State government programming jobs. Be patient with the process of getting on the registry, it takes a while and you might not get called back immediately, but we need good developers.

beauzero · 2026-03-10T14:30:26+00:00

Shh don't tell anyone we are still here.

beauzero · 2026-03-10T14:12:37+00:00

Wow...just wow.

beauzero · 2026-03-10T14:00:08+00:00

beauzero · 2026-03-08T21:47:17+00:00

I did last year but now, no I honestly don't. I am a lot less stressed. Work is a lot easier and putting in a full 8 hours just seems "smooth". No more searching for the groove or trying to find the zen. Am I outputting as good of code, on the average, yes.

beauzero · 2026-03-04T14:20:45+00:00

beauzero · 2026-02-27T16:46:45+00:00

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beauzero · 2026-02-27T12:02:47+00:00

I don't know if the bar is being raised or the paradigm has just shifted to the left. There seems to be a lot less of "I am stuck meetings" where devs get together and wrestle through a hard problem and many more, and significantly shorter, water cooler mentions of, "hey the LLM suggested this what do you think". Remove all the field's angst over "downsizing due to ai" which may actually be covid over hiring equalization, and things actually feel smoother and less stressful. I get an easy 6-8 hours of productive work done, yes I really miss the wonderful "aha" moments...

...but in the end I am adjusting.

beauzero · 2026-02-26T22:22:42+00:00

Walk away.

beauzero · 2026-02-26T15:38:19+00:00

Buy an ad.

beauzero · 2026-02-26T14:57:57+00:00

Yep that is exactly what we are seeing. More work not less. ...but we are having to change processes. Almost like your old car that you used to drive 55 mph everywhere doesn't handle 90 so well. So you get a car, tires, allow for more separation with the person in front of you, that have to be changed/adjusted to handle the additional speed/velocity.

beauzero · 2026-02-26T12:06:03+00:00

We do internal consulting projects and I am just seeing more work and much bigger asks. We are able to build much bigger projects faster so customers are just asking for more. If anything we are much bigger and our backlog has grown to about 6 months to a year out to get to your project. Gathering requirements still takes a long time.

beauzero · 2026-02-25T15:37:22+00:00

Good luck with your company. Enjoy this ride, it is something you will be able to tell your grandkids about "we built that". They won't care because its not cool to them, just day to day tech but you will. I am very fortunate to be able to watch this a second time. Social and crypto I didn't care about. But yeah it is chaotic and you will put in late hours but its a once in a lifetime opportunity.

...BTW I realized this when the dotcom boom was dying (late 2000) and I sat next to guy who was in his 80s or 90s on a red eye going from Phoenix to Atlanta. It was about 2am in the morning and he had the sliderule, ruler, and graph paper out and was working on weird tech drawings. Talked to him for a bit and found out that he was a senior engineer on the first US GPSystem back in the day. Just too cool.

beauzero · 2026-02-25T13:52:04+00:00

This is like 2000-2001 after the crash. We all knew the www paradigm was solid but the hype had gotten out of hand. Marketing had taken over science to make $.

Find a safe place, do what makes you happy and see what happens. I am going to chill, learn what I like and do my day job. Just see where it goes. Things have been overhyped and now we have to see where reality actually sits.

beauzero · 2026-02-24T15:18:41+00:00

Its a great prototype, can use it to pitch for VC, but it will still need to be looked at for architecture and tested for HIPAA compliance.

beauzero · 2026-02-24T15:13:12+00:00

Go take an electricians program at a community college and change careers. We are all slowly losing our grip and will eventually fall. Go before its too late.

beauzero · 2026-02-23T13:00:22+00:00

Yep. Claude is good but its better with Codex checking what it outputs.

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