60+ projects in a year, zero profit: vibe coding now demands you think really big
Etanglement · reddit · 2026-10-17
A developer reflects on a year of AI-assisted building: 60+ projects, zero profit, but happy—repurposing drawer hardware, building a business for his brother, apps for loved ones, and personal automations.
His core take: nobody cares whether a SaaS was built by you or an LLM cluster, or whether it took two years or one prompt to Opus. AI coding raises the bar in a new way—it demands you think really big: not a module, not a page, not a dashboard, but the whole thing. And if the scope is specific, you're expected to be a master of it, or why spend time and tokens outside your expertise.
Photographers never touched engineers' tools and sound techs never touched design software; now everyone is touching Claude and Claude handles the nerdy part. He asks the community how to think bigger.
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