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mjsweet commented on How and where will agents ship software? instantdb.com/essays/agen... · Posted by u/stopachka

lil-lugger · a month ago

I've built a CMS with Claude Code aswell and its working incredibly to create JSON proposals that my sveltekit website reads and turns into beautiful proposal pages. When a customer creates a booking for my mini-golf hire company they get emailed and they get their own booking hub where they can update their booking details, see the proposal when it comes through see any invoices ect. The best part is and what i'm so excited about is we have created a daily business script 'npm run daily' that Claude Code runs and the script uses the business logic to move bookings along in the cycle by telling Claude Code what bookings have tasks. It will return, you have 3 bookings that need attention, run 'npm run get-booking [booking shortcode] THEN that script returns ALL data for that booking row from the db and it knows what task is needed to be done so Claude Code has all the context for that booking and it's prompted at the end saying NEXT STEP Claude code run 'npm run generate-proposal [shortcode] JSON output. (there was an example json output in there for claude to know the syntax ) Everything goes to an out tray in the admin web ui that i have to manually approve. I'm still in testing but I'm starting to realise that Claude Code can be an agentic platform for apps run from the CLI, like my automated crm assistant we've built.

mjsweet · a month ago

Just fantastic! You know you can setup GitHub Actions to move things along? I have made a few. I also installed Claude Code agent in the git hub repository. Then if I want to make changes to the site when I’m out and about I just raise an issue and ask @claude to do something. Also, I have been using Netlify functions to do quite a few different things as well, like sending SMS messages when a form is completed. Also the paid version of Netlify allows background functions that can run too.

mjsweet commented on How and where will agents ship software? instantdb.com/essays/agen... · Posted by u/stopachka

imiric · a month ago

That's great, and kudos to your friend.

Just two things:

- Wouldn't his firm be better served by website builders like WordPress, Squarespace, Wix, etc.? These services have enabled millions of less technical people to create and publish websites for decades now. Most of them support a large ecosystem of plugins and 3rd-party tools that make adding interactivity such as forms and CRMs a breeze.

I mean, it's great that your friend is enjoying getting into web development, and that LLMs are helping him, but I reckon he would be much more productive and deliver more value to his customers by using one of the established services on the market. Unless the projects require some bespoke solutions, or mobile apps, but it doesn't sound like it.

- What happens when one of his customers asks for authentication, session management, a comment system, payments, or something non-trivial or sensitive like that? If all requirements are trivial as you say, then a web site builder could handle it, but if they stop being trivial, then he is bound to run into issues.

LLMs will happily generate non-trivial code, but there are high chances that it will contain security issues or bugs that someone inexperienced won't be able to spot and fix.

So what happens then? He will deliver a seemingly working site to his customers with security issues and bugs, and it will only be a matter of time for them to be exploited. It doesn't matter that his customers don't know or care about "best practices". They surely care about a functioning product that doesn't leak or mishandle their customer data. These issues could be mitigated or avoided by hiring an experienced developer.

So I hope that he has the wisdom and humility to determine when a developer is still required and pay for them, instead of relying on the false confidence provided by LLMs. Or he could take the time to actually learn to program and adopt best practices instead of vibe coding, which sounds like he would be interested in doing anyway.

mjsweet · a month ago

Wordpress is dead.

I officially logged into Wordpress for the last time six weeks ago.

I’m currently migrating a bunch of my sites over to Next.JS.

Claude has vibed the best SEO, E.E.A.T., CRO (CXL best practice), WCAG 2.0, and schema.org compared to any site I’ve ever built in Wordpress.

The audits OPUS was creating for each of these areas are astonishing.

I’m simply migrating them across to Next.JS and hosting them on Netlify.

I haven’t paid for any premium plugins to get these sites up and running; I just used Claude Max 100.

I won’t be renewing the AUD$3500 in Wordpress ecosystem subscriptions after they run out this year.

For my gardening business (I’m now a professional gardener), I’ve integrated a job route scheduling tool with Claude Code. This tool calculates travel times between my gardening jobs and provides basic CRM functionality for my clients. It uses the Google Distance Matrix API, and my week is laid out like a Kanban board.

For my new gardening website, I’ve created dozens of new service pages over the last ten days. I’ve also created a local admin dashboard that ingests my 1200 or so before and after pictures. This dashboard provides a neat interface to match before and after “pairs,” extracts the EXIF data, calculates the suburb, and allows me to tag by job type. It then moves the photos (stripped of EXIF) into the Next.JS public folder with AVIF and WebP versions and a JSON file that specifies their content.

Claude then uses the JSON to build custom gallery components for each service page.

None of this was conceivable for me two months ago.

I’m primarily building static JamStack sites that are secure.

Is Wordpress secure? I don’t think so.

I’ve done many months of work in the last twenty-one days.

Have I saved myself $50k by doing all this with Claude Code? No, because that was never an option previously.

I understand your concerns about false confidence, and I genuinely respect that perspective. I backed out of Firebase Studio a while ago because I lacked confidence in Gemini’s ability to create safe and functional Firebase rules.

However, the landscape is changing, and the new interface for CMS systems will no longer be the traditional wp-admin. Instead, it will be a user-friendly chat agent with a robust system prompt for building websites, forms, basic workflow rules, business logic, and authentication.

Although I’m not a programmer, I have experience as a digital producer, which has given me a good understanding of toolchains.

If I were a startup envisioning the next generation of CMS, I would be actively working on it and developing it as quickly as possible.

mjsweet commented on How and where will agents ship software? instantdb.com/essays/agen... · Posted by u/stopachka

mjsweet · a month ago

The most frustrating problem I have had with Firebase Studio is Gemini 2.5 attempting to create firebase rules... it was completely unworkable in my experience - just constant permissions errors. I pivoted to Claude Code a few weeks ago with Prisma ORM and NEON db running on Netlify. It's been pretty good so far. I will give InstantDB a go soon I think.

mjsweet commented on Vera C. Rubin Observatory first images rubinobservatory.org/news... · Posted by u/phsilva

mjsweet · 2 months ago

Back in January 2010 I went on a blind date with a lady who’s now my wife — an astrophysicist. We talked about this instrument and how Google would shuffle petabytes of raw observations, then distilling them into datasets researchers could actually use (don't know if Google is still involved?). We’ll celebrate 15 years of marriage this January, and I have been following the progress of this telescope since 2007 or so. It's amazing how long it takes for these instruments to come online, but the benefits are significant.

mjsweet commented on One way to fight loneliness: Germans call it a Stammtisch npr.org/2024/12/22/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/geox

mjsweet · 8 months ago

When my wife and I lived in Canberra, we made friends with a few couples who met at alternate homes every Sunday night, almost without fail. I miss that so much. All I want to do is have dinner with the same group of people every week. We moved to Melbourne and then back to Brisbane, but we were never able to replicate that.

mjsweet commented on Apple to upgrade base Macs to 16GB RAM, starting from Apple M4 models business-standard.com/tec... · Posted by u/ripjaygn

mjsweet · a year ago

Could this be related to their plans for local inference? Maybe the need to load larger models into memory has driven their decision?

mjsweet commented on Sequoia is both more and less generous to Intel Macs, depending on the model arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/miles

thefz · a year ago

> Apple is dropping support for the 2018 MacBook Air

That's an awfully short support window, I bet these computers still work well enough for daily usage. Thankfully, for the intel line there's always the option to install Linux (I suppose).

So much ewaste for a company that touts to be environmentally friendly.

mjsweet · a year ago

Those computers will still run Ventura for years to come though.

mjsweet commented on LSST Camera: largest camera for astronomy www6.slac.stanford.edu/ls... · Posted by u/defrost

mjsweet · a year ago

I remember the original Google announcement where it was announced that Google would help with the huge storage requirements for the project, I just dug up the YouTube announcement. Pretty amazed that this video is 17 years old now, a testament to how long these projects are in development for... this 2007 video wasn't even when it began.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thPlpDcaewo

mjsweet commented on A vehicle that no one thought would go electric just did english.elpais.com/techno... · Posted by u/belter

josephcsible · 2 years ago

Misleading title: it's going hybrid, not going electric.

mjsweet · 2 years ago

I read another article that labeled it “mild hybrid”, curious to know what that even means? A best as I can tell the electric motor assists the diesel motor for acceleration and drive chain. So are there scenarios where both motors are powering the drive chain at the same time, or have I read it wrong?

mjsweet commented on iMessage Key Verification support.apple.com/en-gb/H... · Posted by u/simpleintheory

captainoats · 2 years ago

Yep, I have an 2017 iMac at home and won’t be able to use CKV unless a sign out of iCloud on that machine.

mjsweet · 2 years ago

That’s what I wondered!