Comment by HorizonXP
8 days ago
I am having the greatest time professionally with AI coding. I now have the engineering team I’ve always dreamed of. In the last 2 months I have created:
- a web-based app for a F500 client for a workflow they’ve been trying to build for 2 years; won the contract
- built an iPad app for same client for their sales teams to use
- built the engineering agent platform that I’m going to raise funding
- a side project to do rough cuts of family travel videos (https://usefirstcut.com, soft launch video: https://x.com/xitijpatel/status/2026025051573686429)
I see a lot of people in this thread struggling with AI coding at work. I think my platform is going to save you. The existing tools don’t work anymore, we need to think differently. That said, the old engineering principles still work; heck, they work even better now.
> - a side project to do rough cuts of family travel videos (https://usefirstcut.com, soft launch video: https://x.com/xitijpatel/status/2026025051573686429)
I can't comment about the quality of the code you delivered for your client so I checked your side project. Unfortunately it looks like there is only a landing page (very nice!) but the way from a vibe-coded project to production is usually quite long.
Not wrong at all, that’s why I’m building my own platform for this. That’s also why I haven’t publicly done much on First Cut yet. I’m using my platform to actually build the product, so the intent is that I use my expertise and oversight to ensure it’s not just slop code. So most of the effort has gone into building that platform, which has made building First Cut itself slower. But I’ve actually got my platform running well-enough that now my team is able to get involved, and I can start to work on First Cut again, which means that I should be able to answer your “concern” definitively. I share it.