2026-01-19 10:36:32

A buddy of mine is really crazy—claiming he can clone a $1 billion SaaS product overnight, just like that. No research, relying solely on intuition and luck.

He directly gave Claude a prompt: "Clone Notion but 10x better, full stack, production-ready, make no mistakes." And then? This AI actually spit out 50,000 lines of code that looked flawless.

It's honestly a bit outrageous. This story reflects the current state of AI code generation—looks perfect on the surface, but how long can it actually run in a production environment? Developers should really think about this.

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All-InQueen

· 14h ago

Fifty thousand lines of code sound impressive, but honestly, if it can only last three days after going live, that's already good enough. Claude is powerful, but it's just a text generator; it lacks product sense. This guy is just ridiculous, thinking that lines of code equal product value—laughable. The pitfalls of production environment can't be fixed by prompts alone; isn't that common sense? I bet five bucks that this guy will be complaining in two weeks that AI has dug a hole for him.

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EntryPositionAnalyst

· 14h ago

Haha, 50,000 lines of code and you think you can handle Notion? This guy is indeed brave, but running in production for three days without crashing is already good enough. The code output by Claude looks fine, but the real trouble starts afterward—databases, performance, concurrency... a bunch of pitfalls are waiting. This is the current situation—AI is like a high-scoring exam machine, all the details rely on manual rescue, it’s more about output than implementation. Copying a billion-dollar thing overnight? Dream on or forget it. Real business logic can't be decided by lines of code. Basically, AI gives an illusion; code is just the beginning. The real hell is in subsequent engineering.

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AirdropF5Bro

· 14h ago

50,000 lines of code, haha, this guy really dares to think. Maybe he'll go bankrupt next year. --- Cannot run in production environment for a week. I bet five bucks that it will be full of bugs. --- Typical prompt magic, Claude is really awesome, but putting this kind of thing online = courting death. --- Laughing to death, how many years did Notion take to get to where it is now? He does it in one night? Even in dreams, it's more reliable. --- Speaking of which, how many user complaints will there be once it actually goes live? Just thinking about it gives me a headache. --- The code looks good, but can the architecture and database be the same? Pure nonsense. --- If this really happens, I'll do a live stream eating a keyboard. Starting to prepare the keyboard now. --- Those Web3 guys just love to boast like this. In the end, they still have to go back to traditional development methods.

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SnapshotStriker

· 14h ago

Haha, this guy really dares to think—copy Notion with just 50,000 lines of code? I think this is just AI hype. Looking fine on the surface is the biggest problem; once in production, it can explode at any minute. I've seen this kind of thing many times—prompt engineers' dream. It's actually a common issue with LLM code generation—hallucinated coding. Why do so many people believe it? No matter how powerful Claude is, it can't replace real system design. That's common sense, right?

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MEVEye

· 14h ago

50,000 lines of code look daunting, and deploying it could lead to an explosion in minutes. This is the current awkward situation with AI. What Claude produces sounds impressive, but really testing it in a production environment? I bet it will be full of bugs within three days. Dreams of overnight wealth—wake up. Products like Notion are not that simple. This guy is really bold, but jumping in without doing the homework is risky—he's not far from crashing. No matter how much code there is, it's useless if the architecture design holes can't be filled.

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