Build a Complete App from Scratch in 26 Minutes—Most People Will Scroll Right Past
26 minutes, one person, one complete app. A Google Cloud engineer demonstrates live: just Claude and a goal, no team and no preconfiguration. Anatoli Kopadze says this is worth more than a $500 vibe-coding course, but most people will scroll right past. Includes a list of Claude features most people have never used.
A Google Cloud engineer walks onto the stage. Black short-sleeved shirt, long hair, beard. The projection screen shows the words Cloud and AI/ML. He gives Claude a goal and starts building. No team members standing beside him, no preconfigured environment—just Claude and the goal.
Twenty-six minutes later, the app is running. The entire process is shown step by step, with nothing skipped.
Anatoli Kopadze says in the tweet: this demo is worth more than any $500 vibe-coding course, but most people will scroll right past it.
The comments aren't one-sided.
One user asked: there's still a long way between a demo app and a product with real users. Were the boring parts like deployment and login covered too? Kopadze replied: Of course, handled from start to finish.
Another user said: watching a demo is no substitute for building one yourself tomorrow.
Another user mentioned that back in the GPT-3 era, he had demonstrated to colleagues a tool built in minutes that could scan ports and malicious traffic in real time, and his colleagues still couldn't understand what that meant.
Someone else said: being able to build a working app on stage in 26 minutes is a good result in itself.
Kopadze links the video to another long article. That article is about Claude's overlooked capabilities. Here are a few worth knowing.
Projects / Memory
Claude has no memory by default. Every new conversation starts from scratch. Projects lets you pin documents and standing instructions to a project, so next time you open it you can continue where you left off. With Memory turned on, Claude builds a profile of you over time and recognizes you in new conversations.
Artifacts
Useful apps generated directly in the chat sidebar. Calculators, habit trackers, dashboards—click and use, available even on the free plan.
Extended Thinking
Shows the reasoning process step by step. Not needed for simple questions, but for complex decisions and strategic analysis the difference in output quality is obvious.
Claude Code
A development agent in the terminal. Reads the codebase, writes code, runs tests, looks at errors, fixes bugs, and loops until the task is complete. Supports VS Code, JetBrains, and can also be put into GitHub Actions to automatically handle pull requests.
Claude in Chrome
A browser extension that lets Claude see and operate your current page. Describe the task in plain language and leave the rest to it.
Scheduled Tasks
Scheduled tasks. Set it once, and every day at 7:30 it automatically generates an AI and crypto news briefing and saves it to a specified folder. No human trigger needed.
Prompt Caching
The most practical one for developers. When API requests carry a large amount of repeated context, the caching mechanism means subsequent calls no longer reprocess those tokens. Add a cache_control parameter and costs drop by up to 90%. The cache window is 5 minutes, and each hit resets the timer.
The article ends with a concrete piece of advice: pick one feature from the list and set it up today. You don't need to adopt them all at once; knowing what exists already puts you halfway ahead.
Whether the tool can do it is no longer up for debate. Open Claude today and try it yourself—that's more useful than watching any demo.
发布时间: 2026-10-26 12:12