Comment by bojo
1 month ago
I've been an EM for the last 10 of my 25 year Software Engineering career. Coding is, frankly, boring to me anymore, even though I enjoyed doing it most of my career. I had this project I wanted to exist in world but couldn't be bothered to get started.
Decided to figure out what this "vibe coding" nonsense is, and now there's a certain level of joy to all of this again. Being able to clearly define everything using markdown contexts before any code is even written has been a great way to brain dump those 25 years of experience and actually watch something sane get produced.
Here are the stats Claude Code gave me:
Overview
┌───────────────┬────────────────────────────┐
│ Metric │ Value │
├───────────────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ Total Commits │ 365 │
├───────────────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ Project Age │ 7 days (Jan 20 - 27, 2026) │
├───────────────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ Open Issues │ 5 │
├───────────────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ Contributors │ 1 │
└───────────────┴────────────────────────────┘
Lines of Code by Language
┌───────────────────────────┬───────┬────────┬───────────┐
│ Language │ Files │ Lines │ % of Code │
├───────────────────────────┼───────┼────────┼───────────┤
│ Rust (Backend) │ 94 │ 31,317 │ 51.8% │
├───────────────────────────┼───────┼────────┼───────────┤
│ TypeScript/TSX (Frontend) │ 189 │ 29,167 │ 48.2% │
├───────────────────────────┼───────┼────────┼───────────┤
│ SQL (Migrations) │ 34 │ 1,334 │ — │
├───────────────────────────┼───────┼────────┼───────────┤
│ CSS │ — │ 1,868 │ — │
├───────────────────────────┼───────┼────────┼───────────┤
│ Markdown (Docs) │ 37 │ 9,485 │ — │
├───────────────────────────┼───────┼────────┼───────────┤
│ Total Source │ 317 │ 60,484 │ 100% │
└───────────────────────────┴───────┴────────┴───────────┘
In case anyone is curious, here was my epiphany project from 2 weeks ago: https://github.com/boj/the-project
I then realized I could feed it everything it ever needed to know. Just create a docs/* folder and tell it to read that every session.
Through discovery I learned about CLAUDE.md, and adding skills.
Now I have an /analyst, /engineer, and /devops that I talk to all day with their own logic and limitations, as well as the more general project CLAUDE.md, and dozens of docs/* files we collaborate on.
I'm at the point I'm running happy.engineering on my phone and don't even need to sit in front of the computer anymore.
Interesting!
I wonder if this line
> It will configure an auth_backend.rs and wire up a basic user
over a big enough number of projects will lead to at least 2-3 different user names.
How much did this type of project cost you to make?
What kind of costs are you thinking?
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