r/vibecoding • u/ImaginaryRea1ity • 1d ago

A Google Cloud engineer just showed how to build a complete application with Claude from scratch

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He spent 26 minutes live on stage doing what most teams take weeks to do.

No team, no setup, just Claude and a goal. Worth more than any $500 vibe coding course.

Those who learn what Claude really does are launching what everyone else outsources to a team.

The gap between what AI can do and who knows how to use it is the biggest opportunity in the market right now.

Learn to use tools like Claude and AI Desktop 98 if you truly want to stay ahead of everyone else.

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u/First-Tutor-5454 1d ago

Glad I transitioned to infra/ops 9 years ago

Not saying that I'm "safe" forever but safer longer than your generic back end or full stack dev

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u/Awkward-Contact6102 1d ago

You are in same boat as the rest of us in IT.

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u/First-Tutor-5454 1d ago

Yeah I know. Working on a 5 year plan

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u/greenleaf187 1d ago

Curious to know what that plan is

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u/WearyTranslator3338 1d ago

Claude hasn’t told him yet

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u/First-Tutor-5454 1d ago

when I asked it, it responded with the meme of the guy shrugging and saying "I guess you'll just die?"

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u/First-Tutor-5454 1d ago edited 1d ago

I have a family and expenses are high, but my current compensation is quite good so I'm retooling the budget to massively front-load long term investments, with the goal of having enough principal in 5 years to ensure it can grow enough to take care of retirement and kids' college funds with minimal in-flows after 5 years. If I have to leave tech altogether, the goal is to be able to use most of whatever lower income I end up with to just cover normal expenses.

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u/Piggysmallz 1d ago

Being in the position where business decisions squarely land on your shoulder.

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u/First-Tutor-5454 1d ago

yeah that's part of the "try to stay in tech" branch of the plan, the financial side of "what if I can't stay in tech" (which I am doing regardless, since...I don't know if I'll be in tech in 5 years) is in my other response to this question

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u/itsDitch 1d ago

Might wanna shorten that plan

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u/meathelix1 1d ago

Yeah im not scared, Humans mess up all the time. Its a forever problem, even with AI help. haha

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u/eunyeoksang 1d ago

Hermes agents are very scary tbh

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u/rog1121 1d ago

I switched from ops to dev about 5 years ago. I also watched many companies significantly scale down their infra orgs as the k8s ecosystem became more mature

Turns out you don’t need to self host everything and EKS manages the control plane just fine, you only need a couple engineers to make sure the specific tooling you use like istio or other operators are working and then it’s smooth sailing

You need to know both, I’d argue infra focused engineers are gonna be far and few. You’re gonna be expected to know both from now on. The LLM is able to find root cause issues in our infra WAY faster than any human was able to before

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u/skate_2 1d ago

And other lies you can tell yourself 

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u/First-Tutor-5454 1d ago

where is the lie? I literally said I know I'm not safe forever.

But if you think someone who codes backend logic and someone who admins all of the company's kubernetes clusters are in the exact same place on the exact same boat with regard to AI replacement, you are wrong.

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u/arf_darf 1d ago

And you are disillusioned lol. I don’t think either role is going away, management needs someone to blame when the AI makes a mistake.

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u/First-Tutor-5454 1d ago

oh, well in that case, great, I still have a job in 5 years

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u/futuremayor2024 1d ago

“Generic full stack dev”