Just Sweep It Under the Rug
What could go wrong? After singing the praises of what I was able to accomplish in 50 hours when creating Slowpoke, it's time to visit the other side of the balance sheet - what did I miss for the sake of expediency (or laziness)? I hope this post serves to enumerate why software engineering is still a valuable profession, even in the age of vibe coding. It's possible that with the latest version of Claude, I could've completed this in 10 hours rather than 50 (although every post I read, even among the staunchest LLM proponents, reiterates the models' need for expert supervision). But, even if I were able to complete the functional requirements in less time, making it operational and scalable still takes a lot of hard work. It's not an exaggeration to say that offering an app to a large group requires an order of magnitude (or more) worth of effort than the original proof of concept. Granted, some of that effort is a hydra. The software engineering industr...
