alt Hacker NewsMy non-technical cofounder managed to vibe code a holding page with Claude Design and it walked him through deploying it to Netlify.
However for some reason it had him deploy a single HTML file with all the assets encoded as a huge base64 blob in the code that required a massive amount of JavaScript to extract and render.
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RileyJames • today at 8:10 AM
Interesting.
I often ask it export a single html file, for an external collaborator or simpler sharing. But I wouldn’t deploy that to production.
I wonder if they asked it to deploy a html file.
But this is exactly the kind of hidden domain knowledge / expertise that changes how you use the tool.
It's been doing this for our non-technical folk. Giving users a gigantic single file for deployment. We saw one user deploy a JS file with around 3K-5K elements in an array, storing unique IDs of items they wanted to list.
Welcome to Software Development, Lindsey from HR - here's your first database!
People just don't really understand how these things work yet, and they don't know what to ask for, I'm hopeful that they eventually do become more tech-literate, but not sure yet.