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>If asked ~3 years ago where the state of the models are today, it would sound like sci-fi if answered, "the models are creating full MVP apps in ~30 minutes with one prompt".

The first one-shot app was created with ChatGPT in June 2023 - 3 years ago. In my experience, the current result of one-shotting apps is just as bad today as it was back then.

What “full MVP app” are you talking about? I know of none that have been anywhere near production ready. With all due respect, I think you’re portraying fantasy as reality. I would love to be proven wrong.

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> The first one-shot app was created with ChatGPT in June 2023 - 3 years ago. In my experience, the current result of one-shotting apps is just as bad today as it was back then.

Hard disagree. Take a good SaaS starter template and do a bunch of harness engineering. You can get an agent to shit out production grade stuff. You might argue that's cheating, but there's nothing stopping you from doing it, and it works. It's only getting better too.


The original comment asked for someone to name one and you didn’t, though.

Cos I'm too busy doing it at work.

Send your agent off on a task and give us an example come on now

Can you share one when you get home? I'm interested to see some examples.

> In my experience, the current result of one-shotting apps is just as bad today as it was [three years ago]

Hard to respond to this with anything other than "no, you're wrong".


What’s the production mvp app that ai made in 30 minutes then? That was the original question no?

When did you last try this? Here's a prompt for you:

> It's really important to me you make sensible decisions here, and don't bother me with the small stuff. I want a plant-watering app me and my wife can share, that shows who watered which plants in our house. I'll deploy this on my home server with Coolify. The app should be attractive, work both on desktop and mobile. We have a bunch of cases where we have multiples of one plant type. We'll need separate users, but don't go overboard with auth. I want to impress her, so let's lean on the side of more rather than fewer, features, but I don't really wanna run anything that won't just fit in a single container with some persistent storage. We're the only two users who'll ever actually give this a go. Visually attractive is important to me.


I'm just being honest but the parent said "production," is that your idea of what that means?

For an MVP? Sure. I would indeed be willing to deploy this to me and my wife.



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