I vibecoded something engineers are starring in github

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OK so I was actually kind of scared to post anything here. Not because of trolls. I just figured nothing I built would matter to people who actually ship software for a living. Imposter thing.

I posted iai-mcp anyway. It's a memory tool for Claude Code. Remembers stuff across sessions, verbatim, runs locally on your laptop. You stop copy-pasting context from old chats. That's pretty much it. I was bracing for silence. Six days later it's at 111 stars on GitHub.

The stars aren't really why I'm writing this though. The comments are. The deep technical breakdowns, the "have you tried X", the people explaining patiently why my approach won't scale, the ones who actually ran it and came back with what broke. I read every single one. A bunch went straight into the next release. Not in some abstract way, I mean Iread the thread, ran your bench command, and fixed the thing.                                  

So yeah. "Thanks" feels too light. If you commented, if you tried it, if you starred it, if you posted a screenshot of it crashing on your machine — I see you. The next version is coming and it's better because of you.

Posted May 12, 2026, 6:22 AM UTC

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