Working on a really neat idea app for client as a consultant.The app is in production and has active users. Sounds great except few facts like...

...every developer left the company, no handover whatsoever, no documentation, founder is vibe coding the app with claude and pushes like 500 times daily directly to master, production breaks every minute, its a slow dockerized nextjs fullstack app - literally waiting like half a minute when clicking on a link locally, prisma migrations don't work at all, also a lot of unfinished integrations with 3rd party services...

First time working on the vibe coded app, certainly will be also last. No money will get me into project like this again. Good thing is that I am almost over with it. Will never look back!

Also next js no more, I'll rather herd goats on a mountain than fixing someone elses nextjs sloppy app again.

Happy Friday everyone! 💕

Yup 100% on the nextjs. 80% on the AI (because it seems to be used by someone who doesn't have technical skill) ;P

I've had projects like it before AI, and was one of the few that could quickly navigate and fix them (including upgrading dependencies to latests), but you really have to not think about how the code should be structured, and instead find flows that need to be adjusted.

Sounds horrible! Fortunately you are out of there soon!

> 'founder is vibe coding the app with claude and pushes like 500 times daily directly to master, (...)'

Hmm... I think I know why the people left... either that or the people left because the founder thought he didn't need them. All in all, sounds like a nice clusterfuck.

@D-4got10-01 people probably left because no more money in the company, but my first gut feeling also was because founder vibe codes the app. it may be the clusterfuck but its fine, everything is fine lol

@BordedDev yup, it was love-hate relationship with next that became pure hate, i don't want to work with it anymore, pure hype, extra hoops, very opinionated in a way that it really is misaligned with pretty much any opinion that i have. I think that they could do much better with next, new remix is going the right way.

On AI - you guessed right, used by non technical person, i use AI to speed up my development but putting a lot of guard rails and calling it out constantly on a bs and halucinations, giving a lot of context etc. and it kinda works ok-ish.

@Lensflare sounds horrible but I'm finding myself in a state that I just do my job and frankly my supplies of foxes got thin through the years, so i decide that some things deserve no fox given! 🦊

@devJs Good luck, it really is a terrible combo. I wonder if it would be faster to have an AI rewrite the whole project (with proper guidance)?