Nine Days
The internet has been abuzz this week with talk of Claude Code nerfing itself. This frequently happens before a new model release, and one is rumored imminent. In any case, this has not been my experience.
A Rails blog app. Articles, comments, nested resources, validations, Turbo Streams broadcasting via Action Cable. Tailwind CSS. The kind of app rails new and two scaffolds produce, modernized with real-time updates.
Deployed to the cloud via V8 isolates on Cloudflare or Vercel. Or to your browser — a full three-tiered architecture with SharedWorker, dedicated Worker for SQLite/OPFS persistence, and the main thread for UI. No server. Deployed via GitHub Pages. Also runs in WebContainers with HMR and system testing at 47ms per test.
Transpiled to six languages. Crystal. Elixir. Go. Python. Rust. TypeScript. Each with its own runtime, its own ORM, its own WebSocket implementation, its own test suite. 126+ tests passing across all targets. Browse the generated source side by side.
Downloadable binaries. A 1.9 MB tarball. Extract, run, open localhost:3000. A complete web application with real-time broadcasting. No toolchain required.
Nine days from first commit to six languages.
The common narratives: LLMs produce slop. LLMs will take our jobs. Both are true. Both are contradictory. Both are irrelevant.
The reality is simpler. The cost to produce software has been reduced. Reduced cost leads to greater demand. Greater demand leads to more software — both practical and whimsical.
I've learned a lot producing this. Had fun doing it. And I'm looking forward to continuing to explore.