Ben Van Zee

I still can't believe what I have been able to build using Replit Agent. 6 months ago this would have been impossible. First off, a little background: At the end of 2024, I acquired Don Norman Associates (DNA). At DNA we have the largest collection of motor carrier authority letters in the world. Some stretch as far back as the 1930s. The system that currently hosts those files was written in ColdFusion back in the early 2000s. The retrieval is fast, but cumbersome. We are working on a new system that allows for self-service retrieval and has broader metadata from each mc letter. Well, while we're building a more "production-ready" system, I decided to vibe code a new web app with a subset of the documents we have. I started off small and just kept iterating and iterating. Now I have a fully functioning web store that has indexed and archived 1.1MM motor carrier letters issued by FMCSA. Basically every MC letter issued from 2011-now. Documents are indexed with company name, city, state, DOT Number, MC Number, type of authority granted, etc, and instantly searchable. So far beyond a prototype. It's making money and making our service delivery quicker and fully featured. Abandoned carts, discount codes, search analytics, cron jobs, etc. Now we just need to work on driving more traffic to the site. I cannot wait to see what gifts Replit delivers in the next year!

@NickHorob you have your own env setup for it? i've never taken the time to setup the environments other than just using theirs

Claude Code from the mobile app works great

ask and ye shall receive?

PSA: if you have the claude desktop app open on multiple computers it can take actions on the wrong machine! last night, on my macbook, i asked claude cowork to do something for me (open a browser and navigate to a login page). it showed me a screenshot of the login page and said it'd opened it, but I couldn't find the browser tab on my macbook, so I abandoned the session. this morning I came into the office and noticed on my mac mini that the login page was open. turns out the claude desktop app was also running there and I guess claude has no instructions to run tasks on that machine. any help @bcherny ?

if it passed, this would have the most impact: Requiring “foreign dispatch services” to register as brokers. Foreign dispatch services are defined in the bill as those not located in the U.S., Mexico or Canada, that act as a direct licensed agent on behalf of one or more motor carriers. everything else is window-dressing.

Launch a what?

@Schornack welcome to the club

I can see why coding can get addicting. Baby steps is what I am learning at the moment with Claude

@garrett_makes do you just prompt the ai constantly saying "enhance" like they do in the movies

Truck vision v2 is out now on SC for all users. I'll have some comparisons soon and show the improvements. During development, the goal was that if I can read an image myself, the system should too. And that goal was achieved. In testing there were multiple images I was not able to read myself but the system was. Truck vision v2 also includes huge metadata improvements i.e. was it a paper tag? Does it seem they have taped on signs in the past? These will will be surfaced on company profiles soon for vetting checks.

@bankerbrady A bulk email service provider

@benvanzee What is sendgrid?

i am this close to just blocking all sendgrid email on our work domain. almost all phishing attempts I get are via sendgrid.

@krystiangebis but us vibecoders don't know jack about if it's good code or not - so i get the other LLM to fight with claude about if it's good

@benvanzee Not sure if it still has the same meaning but i would consider coding with claude as pair programming

Getting 20+ agents to work together in parallel is a) hard b) undeniably the way forward c) how you actually vibe code without writing slop

going existential in the PRD

phil is the only drummer i respect who has their toms at a 45

makes me even more glad i bought a mac mini a few weeks ago. learning tmux and mosh were just too much to handle

@bankerbrady next door cousins have the 3d printer =) he was shocked about the right-to-repair stuff with Deere

@benvanzee And learning to solve a Rubik’s cube. Probably a 3D printer on the other night stand. Kids ready to be a genius farmer.

he's also currently reading moby dick.

@bankerbrady this was an impulse buy at harbor freight on saturday morning to help him build out his tool collection. grandpa has a few pair, too, and they'll work together.

@benvanzee Barf bag I’m tracking with. The fencing pliers I’m tracking less. Someone needs to let him know you need 2 sets to effectively use those things.

My son sleeps with a barf bag and fencing pliers on his nightstand. This kid is awesome

@StephenRuhe They’re Z-wurst

Funny you mentioned Bluewater. They owe me money.

Funny behind the scenes trivia: I got pulled over 5 minutes after we left my house because I forgot to renew my registration. 😑