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Re: Show HN: MacOS Live Screensaver – A screensaver that plays live video streams

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Post by reaperducer »

QuantumNoodle wrote: post #7

> Disclaimer: This project was entirely vibe-coded. I've never written Swift before in my life Something I've wondered - but not had much empirical evidence for - is if entirely vibe-coded projects are difficult to maintain. I, too, don't know swift so I cannot look over the codebase to gauge this. I am curious if any swift savants out there can weigh in. Furthermore, I will follow the project and keep an eye out for…

I wonder if certain languages are easier to vibe code than others.

My supposition is that the better documented a language, the easier it would be for the LLMs.

Or is it the opposite: The more obtuse a language, the more StackOverflow questions, the easier it is for LLMs to work with.

Re: Show HN: MacOS Live Screensaver – A screensaver that plays live video streams

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Post by QuantumNoodle »

reaperducer wrote: post #11
QuantumNoodle wrote: post #7

> Disclaimer: This project was entirely vibe-coded. I've never written Swift before in my life Something I've wondered - but not had much empirical evidence for - is if entirely vibe-coded projects are difficult to maintain. I, too, don't know swift so I cannot look over the codebase to gauge this. I am curious if any swift savants out there can weigh in. Furthermore, I will follow the project and keep an eye out for…

I wonder if certain languages are easier to vibe code than others. My supposition is that the better documented a language, the easier it would be for the LLMs. Or is it the opposite: The more obtuse a language, the more StackOverflow questions, the easier it is for LLMs to work with.

I've had success vibe-coding things that, I would imagine, make up more of the training dataset - more common. When I try to do more specific Linux systems programming it is pretty trash, especially with newer languages.

Re: Show HN: MacOS Live Screensaver – A screensaver that plays live video streams

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Post by grimgrin »

this is cool. i love shit like this

idk if any of y'all ever used https://satelliteeyes.tomtaylor.co.uk/ but I was a big fan. such that i now have my own process of keeping my wallpaper updated w/ various city webcams. throw in some noise/desaturation and you've got an _aesthetic_

anyway, this is about a screensaver not a wallpaper and i think there is cool potential with video streams as screensavers

Re: Show HN: MacOS Live Screensaver – A screensaver that plays live video streams

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Post by Someone »

QuantumNoodle wrote: post #7

> Disclaimer: This project was entirely vibe-coded. I've never written Swift before in my life Something I've wondered - but not had much empirical evidence for - is if entirely vibe-coded projects are difficult to maintain. I, too, don't know swift so I cannot look over the codebase to gauge this. I am curious if any swift savants out there can weigh in. Furthermore, I will follow the project and keep an eye out for…

> is if entirely vibe-coded projects are difficult to maintain

Vibe coding is too “Hail Mary” to me, but if you’re into it, I would think the best way to do that is by giving a LLM the git history of the project with each commit contain the prompt that created it and, if a human tweaked things, requiring that human to provide a good commit comment.

Then, you could give a LLM the git repo, instructions on what change you want to see, and have it create the next commit.

Re: Show HN: MacOS Live Screensaver – A screensaver that plays live video streams

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Post by runjake »

hauxir wrote: post #10
QuantumNoodle wrote: post #7

> Disclaimer: This project was entirely vibe-coded. I've never written Swift before in my life Something I've wondered - but not had much empirical evidence for - is if entirely vibe-coded projects are difficult to maintain. I, too, don't know swift so I cannot look over the codebase to gauge this. I am curious if any swift savants out there can weigh in. Furthermore, I will follow the project and keep an eye out for…

They most definitely are. However this project is so simple it's more akin to a script. Really not that hard to grasp despite not knowing swift. Also vibe coded an android tv version and used this codebase as input ;) https://github.com/hauxir/androidtv-live-screensaver

Indeed I was able to read through it's 555 lines in about 4-5 minutes. Nothing seems too ghastly -- it's a pretty good vibe coding job.

Re: Show HN: MacOS Live Screensaver – A screensaver that plays live video streams

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Post by threecheese »

hauxir wrote: post #8
MontagFTB wrote: post #6

How’d they get Claude listed as one of the contributors? Is that due to changes coming in to the repo from a Claude/github integration?

it's just claude code commiting and pushing for me because i'm lazy

Not lazy! This should be a requirement, so future “us” can discern authorship - just like any developer.

Re: Show HN: MacOS Live Screensaver – A screensaver that plays live video streams

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Post by grimgrin »

QuantumNoodle wrote: post #7

> Disclaimer: This project was entirely vibe-coded. I've never written Swift before in my life Something I've wondered - but not had much empirical evidence for - is if entirely vibe-coded projects are difficult to maintain. I, too, don't know swift so I cannot look over the codebase to gauge this. I am curious if any swift savants out there can weigh in. Furthermore, I will follow the project and keep an eye out for…

this is kinda inline with what you're asking i think?

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/7/vibe-engineering/

for me it's working on a thing, and then linting, type checking, running tests. and even then thoughtfulness still required

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