This product is pretty crazy. I gave it some backe...
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straight-nightfall-20143
07/15/2025, 5:53 PMThis product is pretty crazy. I gave it some backend code and it's deploying a web app for me. (we both get bonus credits if you use the referral link) https://manus.im/invitation/FT95GD3S9WRW1P9
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tall-angle-89997
07/15/2025, 6:39 PMJust trying to understand. I work in tech but I am not a traditional dev. You gave it pure backend code and it wrote the front-end for you?
tall-angle-89997
07/15/2025, 6:39 PMHow will you validate that the front end does what you expect it to?
tall-angle-89997
07/15/2025, 6:41 PMAnd did it just write the front end or is it actually deploying it to some infra/cloud?
tall-angle-89997
07/15/2025, 6:42 PMMy background is more automation and Platform Engineering. Right now, Iām mostly dealing with Ansible, Terraform and K8s on Azure. And I cannot get AI to produce anything usable, other than helping me with Terraform loops or blocks I need quickly generated.
tall-angle-89997
07/15/2025, 6:42 PMHope itās OK that Iām asking.
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straight-nightfall-20143
07/15/2025, 6:58 PMI devloped the code in a jupyter notebook, and Manus adapted it to Flask. It adapted my code turn it into a working backend and also wrote frontend.
It did some testing, which produced a caught exception that it ignored. I told it to fix the problem, which it did, and then retested and confirmed the problem was fixed. Now it's working on deploying to some kind of public endpoint, but I don't know the details of how yet.
straight-nightfall-20143
07/15/2025, 6:59 PMI will be doing extensive testing on my own once deployed to see that the app functions like it should, and I'm sure there will be some bugs, but it did like 90% of the work
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tall-angle-89997
07/15/2025, 7:06 PMWhen you say to some public endpoint - does it just pick one at random or did you provide your cloud account?
tall-angle-89997
07/15/2025, 7:07 PMAnd when you say it fixed the problem, did you verify it only fixed that problem and didnāt also make unrelated changes?
tall-angle-89997
07/15/2025, 7:07 PM^ Iāve had issues with the above
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straight-nightfall-20143
07/15/2025, 7:09 PMI didn't have to provide any account info for the deployment. It works quickly and autonomously, so it's hard to monitor every change it makes in real time. I'm letting it do it's thing and then I will assess afterwards
straight-nightfall-20143
07/15/2025, 7:12 PMI believe it is deploying on its own server or cloud environment and then sharing a public link
straight-nightfall-20143
07/15/2025, 7:13 PMI haven't experimented with using it within my own environment yet.
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tall-angle-89997
07/15/2025, 7:14 PMNow Iām curious about how many user apps itās running in its own environment, how itās isolating them, how much it costs, etc.
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curved-toothbrush-84425
07/15/2025, 7:31 PMWait until you ask it to change the color of a button and it deletes 3 fields from a form before you celebrate š
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tall-angle-89997
07/15/2025, 7:46 PMI feel silly that everyone is saying how awesome it is and how it does everything end to end, but I have a lot of problems replicating that claim.
tall-angle-89997
07/15/2025, 7:47 PMHowever, I am not a developer, Iām on the platform side. My job is to turn pre-sales āhallucinationsā into realityā¦
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straight-nightfall-20143
07/15/2025, 7:50 PMit's not 100% there and definitely still needs troubleshooting. But it still did a lot of the work and saved a lot of time
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rich-insurance-32675
07/16/2025, 12:55 AMāNever trust anything that can think for itself if you canāt see where it keeps its brain?āā -> In this case the brain happens to be in China
rich-insurance-32675
07/16/2025, 12:58 AMMy point is that the security of these systems is pretty rough
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tall-angle-89997
07/16/2025, 1:47 AMI manage Kubernetes clusters for a financial firm. Iād love to deploy some of the cool looking AI tools to help the developers whose apps run in the cluster get help/answers/etc, but I DO NOT TRUST these tools in terms of what AI itās using and where the data is being sent.
tall-angle-89997
07/16/2025, 1:48 AMAnd when I say this, people act like Iām the crazy one.
tall-angle-89997
07/16/2025, 1:49 AMI do need to spend time researching options, deploying the model thatās being queried in clusters, etc. But the point is Iām genuinely concerned about how comfortable people are deploying random junk they find online into live and sensitive client environments.
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straight-nightfall-20143
07/16/2025, 2:14 AMI'm using this for a hobby project, so no high security needs
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great-appointment-99249
07/16/2025, 6:41 AMWhat's the difference between this and all the other AI development tools? bolt, lovable, v0, etc?
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rich-insurance-32675
07/16/2025, 10:54 PMThey all have issues but this one is China-based
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