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A two-million-line database vibe-coded for $600
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A write-up on what $600 of Claude bought in database code, and what it didn't.
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A Zilliz engineer spent $600 on Claude Code working on a 2-million-line C++ database codebase, rather than, as the title jokes, on Dior for his wife. His lesson: write tests, not code reviews. A test-first workflow with six parallel Claude Code sessions turned the huge codebase into a daily shipping pipeline. The post is frank about what that money did and didn't buy.
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- Hacker News: Spending $600 on Claude to Vibe-Code a 2M-Line Database
The full write-up of the workflow.
- Hacker News discussion (3 points)HN submitter: FendyPosted
Hacker News link.