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I Vibe Coded a Full-Stack Kubernetes App in 21 Days

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:00:00 +0000

tl;dr — I built a full-stack Kubernetes desktop application — Go backend, React/TypeScript frontend, brochure website — in 21 days using AI-assisted “vibe coding.” 74,675 lines of source code. 461 commits. 129 pull requests. 100% merge rate. I never read a single line of the source code. Here’s exactly how it worked, what I actually typed, and what I learned.

What I Built

Clusterfudge is a native macOS desktop app for managing Kubernetes clusters. Think of it as a Lens competitor: cluster overview, pod management, log streaming, exec terminals, Helm chart management, YAML editing, resource wizards, a troubleshooting page, and an AI debugging terminal that calls Claude Code to diagnose live pods. Plus a brochure website.

2025 Reflections and 2026 Predictions

Wed, 31 Dec 2025 12:00:00 +0000

tl;dr — The year of the voice interface and job losses.

Claude Code Changed Everything

I’d been hearing about everyone moving over to Claude Code since around November, and I finally started trying it on the 18th of December. Wow. Genuine game changer. It’s not that it’s a single step change in capability, more that we’ve reached a tipping point — Claude Opus 4.5 can handle longer running tasks over much larger codebases, and it all just works.

2024 Reflections and 2025 Predictions

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 10:11:19 +0100

tl;dr — AI is coming for your job. No doubt about it.

It Feels Like a Superpower

I’m a backend engineer. Databases, APIs, server-side logic — that’s my world. I’m not proficient with frontend code. React, TypeScript, modern CSS — I muddle through, but it’s slow and painful.

AI changes that overnight. I now build full-stack applications across platforms I never touch otherwise. It genuinely feels like a superpower. The gap between “I know what I want to build” and “it’s built” shrinks to almost nothing.