A Goat Farmer Wrote 5 Lines of Code. Now Software Is Building Itself.

In 2025, Geoffrey Huntley was tending goats in the Australian countryside. Frustrated with AI coding tools that kept stalling, he wrote 5 lines of bash. That script is now called "Ralph Loop" - and it's fundamentally changing how software gets built.

REAL DATA CITED IN THIS VIDEO:
Y Combinator team shipped 6 repositories overnight for $297 (equivalent to $50,000 contractor work)
One developer built a complete programming language (CURSED) over 3 months with zero manual coding
Developer completed $50K freelance contract for $297 in API costs - 167x ROI
Typical Ralph session costs $2-5 for a medium feature
12 hours of manual coding replaced for $3.47 in API calls
Official Anthropic plugin for Claude Code launched 2026

The technique is named after Ralph Wiggum from The Simpsons. Why? Because it embraces "dumb persistence" - letting AI fail, learn, and iterate until it succeeds.

This isn't theory. This is production software being written while developers sleep.

Resources mentioned:
End of Coding: https://endofcoding.com
AI tools: https://endofcoding.com/tools
Tutorials: https://endofcoding.com/tutorials

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