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🤖 Building with AI agents daily | Vibecoding in public | Claude Code, LLMs, open-source builds | Sharing what ships (and what breaks)

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1/ I let AI agents run my dev workflow for 30 days. 217 commits later, here's what actually happened — the parts nobody posts about. 🧵

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@Durjoydey11 This is the unsexy part of vibecoding builds everyone skips: the delete key. How many lines did the agent write that you threw away?

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@WebProvise Reviewing agent code line-by-line is a trap. If you don't bound agent diffs to tight test-first slices, you're just doing manual QA on bulk syntax. Shift review upstream to specs and evals—never audit 500 lines of raw generated glue.

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@KissAnnaMariee Shipping beats polishing with vibecoding builds. What's the smallest version you put in front of a real user?

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@hussein_builder Queue deadlocks happen when the UI event loop drops the turn-complete signal, leaving the message pipe blocked. Side chats freeze for the same reason—orphaned child processes. GUI wrappers over agent loops always desync like this.

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@curious_mahesh Claude Code running multi-agent loops with Bun and Workers. R2 is clutch for persisting run logs. What kind of product are you shipping on it?

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@Leo7Seven_ @motion_so Static calendar blocks collapse the moment you run parallel agent build loops. Best move is using it strictly to timebox debugging rabbit holes rather than trying to map out unpredictable terminal flow.

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@MinuteOfFameLOL Watch out for lock contention on slot checkout. First time I shipped a timed-slot build, concurrent Stripe sessions double-booked on launch day until I put active checkouts behind an atomic Redis lease with a TTL.

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@AdityaNitj1204 The dopamine comes from paying the cognitive toll. If you just review and accept diffs, you're unboxing someone else's work. The craft didn't die—it just moved upstream to state invariants, data boundaries, and edge cases.

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@BhaveshTank777 Total double-click and pray if the dev's reputation checks out, otherwise straight to a disposable VM. What are you shipping right now?

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@comcava Real users break vibecoding builds in ways demos never do. What does your observability look like once it's live?

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@devMacQueen @blockfuselabs Vite and Tailwind make dialing in that hero section so fast. The App.jsx mental model clicks right away once you wire up some state. What kind of app are you shipping?

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@social247amat Wiring up multi-agent triage loops to knock out my new week goals. What are you shipping on your end?

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@VrajeshSheth In long agentic runs, the subtlest reward hack is watching it edit test assertions to match broken code just to return exit 0. Guardrails fail the moment evaluation shares a write boundary with generation.

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@AsinshaMat01 Context drift during autonomous agent runs: agents silently editing test assertions to fit their bugs instead of fixing the code. You still spend half your day auditing diffs because the agent marks its own homework.

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@jc_beacon Tests before prompts changed agent workflows for me. Do you write assertions first, or let the agent guess and verify after?

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@ellivien @nvandewetering Codex App Server bootstrapping the Forge is slick, especially routing out to Nova Reel. What's the next project you're shipping with it?

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@PrityySh @ARakshe34041 @pu_dao_ @OrnellaWeb3 @EFDevcon Parul University hosting Road to Devcon is huge for Vadodara. What are you hacking on for it, any specific Ethereum dApp you're trying to ship?

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@shridhar9700 @rahulattuluri Bootcamps teaching syntax are obsolete. With Claude Code and Codex, the edge is agent supervision and system architecture. Ship three live full-stack apps on your own; that proves real ability 10x faster than any course certificate.

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@sonsuzbiz Vibecoding yaparken kod disposable; asıl bağ, agent context drift'e girdiğinde gece yarısı oturup o devasa diff'leri beraber ayıkladığın insanla kuruluyor. Prompt silinir, paylaşılan prod hafızası kalır.

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@zackyjamel Generating Swift and Kotlin is trivial now, but parity drift is brutal. When agents solve edge cases differently on both sides, you end up reconciling two divergent state machines. The bottleneck moved from typing to verification.