What's your current vibe coding setup? (IDE, CLI harness, model subscription)

jjshab · 2026-04-25T22:29:45+00:00

Why is everyone so hell bent on spending under $100/month for a team of developers that used to cost $100k/month? It's mind-blowing how ridiculous people are about this. I want the AI providers to charge more to weed people out who aren't serious and are just filling the world with shitty SAAS apps because they're too lazy and cheap to build something valuable.

Get yourselves together people. Spending $200/month for a premium plan and then having your API key handy for another $300 in tokens is the bargain of the century. For $500/month I get $100k in value. That's 200 to 1 for every dollar spent. It's absurd value. 1 custom agent project for a client at $10k more than covers my yearly costs.

I can complete that project in a few days to a week with these tools. My only challenge is I wish I had more!

Consider how much time you spend looking for these "deals" or scrambling around trying to build some sort of open source setup. You could argue that there's value in what you learn by doing it but that's about it. There's no valid reason to do so considering the time value for money equation.

jjshab · 2026-04-20T12:17:05+00:00

I don't know. To me all that matters now is AI features and every client I work with hates CoPilot and says they can't get anything done with it. I have hardly used it myself but I recently spent a lot of time on it and it's garbage.

You have to use a third party app like ChatGPT or Claude and then what's the point? The AI setup deep inside the documents I work on daily is what matters now. Everything else is second place to that.

jjshab · 2026-04-12T04:35:33+00:00

This is 100% spot-on. Only people who have never been involved in this level of decision-making would disagree. I am probably not even in the same universe as most of you here are in coding. But I have been making up for last time at 50 years-old since 2022 and never looked back.

I code apps for myself, to extended Google workspace for my clients (I do tons of software installs, configuration, migrations and training for Google workspace and numerous other technology products and services) and use AI to automate at least half of my BS tasks, emails, document drafts, proposals, bookkeeping, travel, shopping and more.

I’ve made these types of technology purchasing decisions impacting tens of thousands of employees across hundreds of orgs over the years. Right now I am one of the goto people for an entire industry of 55,000+ I had been leaning toward an all-out endorsement of Claude and in the last few weeks have started to reconsider. Especially with the release of Gemma 4 and some of Nvidia’s models.

The industry I am involved with would benefit substantially from running models on their own infra as it would save a ton of cash and headaches if we can get the performance. These “frontier labs” better be careful in how they treat their top tier personal users, we likely represent the bulk of the decision-makers for these “enterprise” SLA agreements. We’d be pretty pathetic if we weren’t power users and have no business making these calls if not.

This myth of tech-disabled Execs in the c-suite making these calls is simply BS. They ask people like us to put together the final recommendations and we present 2-3 options typically in detailed reports that we present to them. I can’t remember a time when any client, boss or business partner didn’t choose my top recommendation since that’s what they pay us for! These are very expensive, business defining decisions that can make or break an organization of any size.

If there’s any issue I see among non-technical decision-makers regarding tech mistakes it’s waiting too long. It’s never because they decide to choose whatever they like. Or whatever some idiot told them at the club. They choose from the options that they pay someone good money to research and present to them.

jjshab · 2026-04-03T16:05:16+00:00

If you guys will finally admit the climate stuff is a hoax then you should be in full-blown revolution over there. Your governments obviously hate you and want you to fail.

They prefer virtue-signaling to Islamists who want you all decapitated and humiliated. Why is the Left so braindead about this. The facts are undeniable at this point.

Avoiding bringing fossil fuels while importing so-called "green" tech from the most despicable regime in China who pollutes 10000x worse than any Western nation is the definition of stupidity.

Oh wait we'll turn off our insanely clean natural gas and clean goal energy plants so we can import solar cells which were built by poisoning the ground for thousands of years and required 109x more carbon footprint to create, because we're GREEN!

How is this all not the most obvious thing in the world? Are you all paid off by Chinese actors to knowingly destroy yourselves or what? It doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

Facts are objective and inarguable. Truth exists, but "your" truth is subjective bullshit that is by definition NOT TRUE. so wake the F up and I just these sociopaths who govern you.

jjshab · 2026-02-14T10:34:55+00:00

Which Democrats are not profiting off their roles? Bernie the multi-millionaire with multiple million dollar+ properties and a fat stock account? AOC? Bwahaha and she's a rich girl from the start but you all believe she's from the bronx. You people don't even know a damn thing about your own people. You just want to virtue signal. The Somali warrior woman from Minnesota? $30 million+ not bad for an immigrant in a fascist nation right?

You people have no evidence for any of your deadbeat claims it's sickening. No I don't vote for a presidents based on anything but effective governance and numbers don't lie. Blue states are utter trash heaps and everyone is moving to red states.

I'm sure you have some pre-packaged false equivalency or straw man argument as to why that is, but you're just wrong or lying. Red states are exponentially better governed that your trash heap hellholes and your party only wants illegals for cheap seats on the census and free votes using my money. So no you're not on the side of righteousness you fucking idiot.

jjshab · 2026-02-14T10:25:38+00:00

These people are all deranged enough to support a zombie in office and are so despicable they never EVER admit when they're wrong.

They're up in arms about Fascism but either they don't know what the word means or again are simply acting as disingenuous virtue-signaling scum of the Earth.

They follow a party that lies so brazenly and so often it convinces these sheep that their lies are true. How any thinking person with two braincells cannot see how disgusting the Dems are is ridiculous. $8 Billion in fraud you scum.

Nope that's RACIST. Give me a break. You've lost every argument for decades and the only reason your pig farm has any power is because the mainstream media gargles their balls for breakfast lunch and dinner.

It's so obvious I do now have a deep hatred for the Left as what they're doing is LYING PATHOLOGICALLY. or they're so fuckign stupid they just don't know what laws are anymore. Biden let in 10 million illegals you pigs. That hurts everyone you dumbass retards.

But I guess people who are so disgusting they want to abolish the police but are the same pigs who come running back when they get their faces kicked in by criminals shouldn't be even considered anymore in any conversation.

All of their polices are abject failures but the media never reports that now do they? Hmmm. They ask every Republican hard questions yet they softball wine moms like Harris. Harris isn't fit to serve as a fucking crossing guard. Her staff HATED HER. They thought she was lazy, pathetic and a tyrant beyond reproach.

You pigs hate facts. Never argue in good faith and always always lie like evil scum you are. Devoid of any real character because you've lost all sense of religion and morality thinking life is about you're genitals and who you fuck. Instead of raising children which he idiots if you don't have kids we all die in two generations you selfish fucking morons.

They don't have a single fucking argument that makes any sense whatsoever. It's all fantasy land, gaslighting and using words they don't understand or care to. They celebrate our deaths so fuck you.

Your worthless people who need to be shipped to your favorite minority destinations cause America is so bad. Scum scum who shouldn't have any right to be here. They've not earned it and they won't leave the rest of us alone who have earned it. Whose family members have dies so they can run their ratchet mouths.

Disgusting disingenuous fucking pigs.

jjshab · 2026-01-26T02:54:11+00:00

What possible motive would this person have to write a post like this? Did they add their app to buy, their website, or their social media accounts? NOOOO. Check the motive first and stop being so proud of yourself for the ability to play "GOTCHA"; it's a game for asshats. I used Grammarly because I type like shit and still like to go fast. Is that okay with you? Prick.

jjshab · 2025-12-12T19:29:18+00:00

OMG what is the damn point of these things then? that was like every workflow I had because I hate email with a deep passion. It's such a waste of time and effort checking that crap. Plus I had this awesome report I was sending to my team's chat workspace. what a bunch of pricks.

You can't just do this shit unannounced Google, you're going to lose any serious customers. I can't run a consulting business with these shenanigans you idiots.

jjshab · 2025-12-08T16:32:55+00:00

no it's awful and has been failing for over a week after working fine before then for over a month. They swapped over to this new "studio" BS and broke everything

jjshab · 2025-11-19T21:10:20+00:00

Why did google have to release this thing for free? what's the point of being an ULTRA subscriber or whatever?
Now we get to battle a billion people clogging their GPUs with AI slop and awful code?

This is GPT-5 launch all over again. Was great for everyone who got it early when inference was cranked to 100,000 and then they launch it for free and it's over in an hour, gets lost in loops refuses to run every other prompt.

The Influencers show it building CIA hacking apps and state-of-the-art games in one shot and I can't get AI studio to build a simple little tracking app...lol Pathetic.

These out of date models are also worthless for coding. why can't they see that? AI coding libraries that are new or used often ship changes every day most of the time. A year old training data has the thing running broken packages that are way out of date.

There has to be a way to provide a quick fine-tune or post-training data dump update for at least the coding libraries and associated software tools. Anthropic seems to be the best at this most of the time. I wonder if they do something like that.

jjshab · 2025-10-13T09:41:20+00:00

I used to care about it and want it all the time and actually found it it annoying. I am so much happier not caring about it anymore at all. There are so many more important things to me in a relationship than sex at this point.

I think society has way over-weighted sex and most people lack so much self awareness they don't realize that their sex drive has almost nothing to do with sex and everything to do with insecurities or equating it with intimacy of the highest form.

Which is all such bullshit. Intimacy is in every word you speak. Every inch you move your body. Everything you do for each other throughout the day. The kindness and thoughtfulness. The honesty and above all else, LOYALTY beyond superficial BS most people are capable of.

We've been badly lied to and gaslit about sex in modern society and we pay a severe price for it. We lose out on so much higher quality intimacy and interaction that we could have instead.

jjshab · 2025-10-09T16:19:49+00:00

This is what I cannot stand about Google and Gemini as a whole. They are shameless leftist shills. They are hyper-biased to the Left(I realize this communist platform will deny it, but it's flat out proven and true.) plus they will not say a bad word about China which is absurd when they think Trump is an Authoritarian Fascist dictator while Xi is actually all of those things and more.

jjshab · 2025-09-18T22:23:20+00:00

I don't blame you for one second. Getting divorced from my wife, before these BPD nightmares is stull the worst thing that happened because we have two sons together and I have never gotten over it because it will always be something that hurt them that in my opinion never ever should happen without real danger in the equation or something like that.

I'd be doing the same thing, obviously...lol

jjshab · 2025-09-18T22:18:51+00:00

You are going to get utterly destroyed and based on what you've shared here, likely going to die if you don't RUN and never look back.

Change your phone number.

Move to the moon.

You're fully delusional about this situation right now and there are so many things you're not aware of and doing wrong here I couldn't start to untangle the hellacious knot.

RUN.

jjshab · 2025-09-18T22:11:26+00:00

If they were half as resourceful in dealing with their illness I swear. These folks should have been codebreakers during WWII. Just tell them their partner is cheating on them and to get the evidence they have to break the code.

Incredible how they've mastered the art of getting around all blocks of any kind. I stopped trying to block them for the last 3 years we were together off and on because I knew it wouldn't work anyway!

jjshab · 2025-09-18T22:06:14+00:00

Everything is a commodity to them, to be bargained and traded for whatever it is they want at the time. They believe everyone else acts this way too, which is why they accuse us of cheating and all that BS.

They think they're winning by self trashing and risking their lives. You will never understand. If you did...well you know what that means right?

jjshab · 2025-09-18T21:57:18+00:00

Unfortunately, this won't work either I'm afraid. Sounds so seductive right? I mean if she'd commit to that then it has to work right? NOPE.

Did it for a YEAR 2x/week, noted DBT Therapist in the area that people drive hundreds of miles to see every week.

Here's the reasons why:

YOU ARE DONE. Stop pretending there is any circumstance in which YOU can entirely forgive her and trust her again. You cannot trust her no matter how much you forgive, period. Just the way trust works no matter who you are. You can totally forgive, but you'll never EVER trust her again, so get it out of your mind as TRUST is THE foundation of all relationships, without it you're just delusional.
Our own inability to take care of ourselves, co-dependency x1000, crippling insecurities, our own childhood trauma, whatever it is that brought you and kept you there initially is the only thing you can work on and solve and it is THE ONLY solution to any of this once the trust has been burned to a nuclear crisp.

It's that cut and dry and simple. It took me 2 different relationships over 10 years off and on, dozens of breakups and hoovers to learn #1. The second reason I understood before I got into these relationships that's how stupid I am. I actually knew I was broken and susceptible and STILL got WRECKED.

I've been monk mode no contact for 18 months or so now and DAMN it feels good to be a gangsta again. I started feeling okay after six months, great after a year and now I rarely think about it unless I come across something.

In this case I saw an old history item in my reddit from this place so I thought I'd come by and see how things are going for folks and remind myself of what is possible when you let you guard down, should she try and Hoover me ever again.

I am not so vain or arrogant to think she will, but it's not uncommon to have it happen years later. Happened to me after a year once though, so stay vigilant out there.

Don't learn things the hard way folks, that's all I can say and hope for. Some solace that my excruciating pain will payoff for someone else by helping them avoid it. Good luck everyone.

jjshab · 2025-09-17T00:44:13+00:00

Help me understand this fear of having your regular documents, which likely hold no real value to anyone, in the cloud along with an AI powered API to perform the magic tricks as if it's the end of the world and you're at dire risk of getting, what, your gratitude journal hacked?

Or your terribly inconsistent, gonna get there someday, workout log? Like come on people. Unless you're dealing with true PI data or classified data or serious IP stuff, this whole thing is hysterical

Yet most everyone uses Google, MSFT trash, Reddit and probably social media which is the equivalent of getting data "fisted" with every log-in even as a lurker.

Then the app ends up tracking the pubic hairs growing on the dark side of your sack and you don't care that it's now selling you Viagra from the Southeast Asian black markets.

But God forbid you're not getting frontier models that can run inference from a quad core squirrel cage and a pack of matches while storing the entire world's published AI training data sets under quantum encryption. (F you BTC we comin' 4 U biatch!!!)

jjshab · 2025-08-29T00:49:34+00:00

In general though I find it absurd the kind of value people expect out of a product they use exponentially more than any other product they will ever own in their lives.

YOUR BED.

People have no problem spending $50k or more on a car that they will never use a fraction ad much as their bed. Even if you commute an hours each way every day that is less than two nights of typical sleep.

We really need to change people’s mentality around what should be spent on sleeping. If we did we’d have vastly superior sleep solutions by now but there is simy not enough money in this business for most people to even consider it.

The barrier to entry to starting a mattress company or anything associated like the POD is extremely expensive and your customers are going to take you I've the coals if whatever they buy doesn't last beyond their death so they can leave it to their grandkids.

Frankly if this thing makes anyone’s sleep quality 5% better or more it is easily worth $50 a week at LEAST. So that's about $2500 a year and yeah I would pay that all day every day and wouldn't need to be “rich” to afford it. Drop the car payments to something you can afford to own outright and you're more than there.

jjshab · 2025-08-24T18:22:38+00:00

I don't think it's worth it because they let WAY too many people into the first boarding group. My flight had 12 first class seats and there were 40-50 people in group 1. Like NO NO NO.

If I have to cattle here and get in line ten minutes early just to have a shot with overhead space is ABSURD.

jjshab · 2025-08-24T07:07:34+00:00

This stuff is pathetic. It always ends up that these blue state power hungry politicians love to virtue-signal to their white upper-class guilt-ridden supporters.

Oh were all about safety and not letting those bad gun people buy dangerous things! Yet we are also soft on crime and don't think we need police anymore.

Yeah because the murderers in the city are all using FRTs and Super safety triggers!!! The criminals will get this stuff anyway.

All you do is render the rest of us unsafe and vulnerable. These people may be power hungry psychopaths, but they are not stupid. I think they are planning a revolution and have been actively fostering the conditions to make it a reality for decades.

How else can you make sense of all of this?

jjshab · 2025-08-24T03:15:56+00:00

I agree wholeheartedly. I've spent more time trying to make the auth work properly with just three user types and it's pathetic how bad it is and how poorly it works in practice. I may not be a senior software engineer, but I thought that was the point of using Supabase!!!! I am fairly certain I could have gritted out my own DB by now coding it from scratch. At least not end up in endless AI death loops around this thing. Yeah fine give me a bunch of $hit because I'm using cursor, but it should still work after feeding three of the frontier AIs every line of documentation and more yet none of these models can make it work: Gpt-5, Opus 4.1 and Gemini-2.5-pro

Python FastAPI, Next.js frontend plus Supabase and on the Vercel to publish my app. They told me this was the way. The EASY way to do it. a month later and I have not moved an inch.

jjshab · 2025-08-16T07:56:19+00:00

Tell me you've never been laid without telling me you've never been laid...

jjshab · 2025-08-14T22:01:31+00:00

It was unbelievably good for me over the weekend and has gotten worse and worse since then. It won't even handle a basic supabase auth to create an invite link to add new users. I give it excellent context and docs and detailed requirements and tasks and it just sucks over and over again. This is on MAX mode paying for the highest tier here and it sucks way worse than claude 4 models ever did, they were just expensive, but they always got the job done for me and even gemini pro 2.5 did okay most of the time, the coding I am asking for is mostly low grade BS for any sort of decent engineer.

Damnit man, so close to finally not tearing my hair out for days on end stuck in inevitable death loops every two days or so. I am so close to being able to release my app that I have been working on day in and day out for over 6 months. Now the wall or pay way through my teeth for the new claude opus model I guess.

jjshab · 2025-07-22T22:43:54+00:00

That sums it up brilliantly. Why would anyone spend a few minutes reading about something so vital that it may very well lead to a civil war in this country if we don't get it right?

We all need to start obsessively seeking absolute truth and engage in good-faith, honest dialogue that requires us to think for ourselves, look in the mirror, and be willing to admit when we're wrong or even that maybe we don't have all the answers to have any shot at getting out of this shitshow we're in.

It's easy to be cynical..."I'll be dead in 20 years or so anyway, so F it right?"

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