Network vet of 30 years builds monitoring tool with Claude Code in 2 days for $10
Greedy-Giraffe-4269 · reddit · 2026-11-13
A Reddit user with 30 years of network ops experience shares a production-grade network monitor built mostly by Claude Code: per-site probes keep data in-network, spotting anomalies humans miss — a fenced-zone camera calling an unknown host every 60 seconds, unattributed remote-access tunnels, hand scanners on plain HTTP.
- Stack: Python + SQLite, no front-end framework, 40 live views; 130 self-tests every 15 minutes with paging on failure
- Framework took 2 days in September; the demo took 2 hours and cost at most $10
- His split: the model writes code, he writes the "opinions" — it doesn't know NOC conventions or out-of-band probes, but telling it once is enough
- Boring, repeatable, and that's the point: money-making vibe-coded tools are dull, not 3D and particles
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