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When @karpathy built MenuGen (https://t.co/E6yaFk3hfu), he said:

"Vibe coding menugen was exhilarating and fun escapade as a local demo, but a bit of a painful slog as a deployed, real app. Building a modern app is a bit like assembling IKEA future. There are all these services,