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Re: Show HN: Vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude Code

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Post by blks »

rvz wrote: post #57
aurareturn wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These are the perfect size projects vibe coding is currently good for. So far... it's going to keep getting better to the point until all software is written this way.

Air traffic control software is not going to be vibe-coded anytime soon and neither is the firmware controlling the plane.

Considering how much work at Boeing is given to consultants and other third party contractors (eg famous MCAS), some piece of work after moving through the bowls of multiple subcontractors will end up in the hands of a under-qualified developer who will ask his favourite slop machine to generate code he doesn’t exactly understands purpose of.

Re: Show HN: Vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude Code

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Post by blks »

spzb wrote: post #56

I am yet to see a vibe coded success that isn't a small program that already exists in multiple forms in the training data. Let's see something ground-breaking. If AI coding is so great and is going to take us to 10x or 100x productivity let's see it generate a new, highly efficient compression algorithm or a state-of-art travelling salesman solution.

It will not generate anything novel because it can’t.

Re: Show HN: Vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude Code

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Post by _august »

dewey wrote: post #23
felixding wrote: post #7

Neat. I also used to make a simple "bookshelf" web page each year for the books I read, but mine were fully static HTML and nowhere near as fancy as this. Side note: I once wrote about recreating Delicious Library: https://dingyu.me/blog/recreating-delicious-library-in-2025

I was about to post something about Delicious Library. That's one of my earlier Mac user memories and it always gave me joy to import / organize my books in there even if there's no real reason to do it.

Same, I remember being in awe of how well-designed this app was.

Re: Show HN: Vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude Code

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Post by exe34 »

whattheheckheck wrote: post #155
exe34 wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

no, but I have furniture. it's important to keep sight of the end goal, unless the carpentry is purely a hobby.

What's the job title and education requirements for designing the supply chain and engineering of the ikea furniture?

I don't know, I don't work at IKEA. Sorry.

Re: Show HN: Vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude Code

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Post by mtlynch »

SQLite wrote: post #175
simonw wrote: post #112

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> I want to hear maintainers of complex, actively developed, and widely used open-source projects (e.g. ffmpeg, curl, openssh, sqlite) start touting a massive uptick in positive contributions That's obviously not going to happen, because AI tools can't solve for taste. Just because a developer can churn out working code with an LLM doesn't mean they have the skills to figure out what the right working code to contrib…

No, Simon, we don't "refuse". We are just very selective and there is a lot of paperwork involved to confirm the contribution is in the public domain and does not contaminate the SQLite core with licensed code. Please put the false narrative that "SQLite refuses outside contributions" to rest. The bar is high to get there, but the SQLite code base does contain contributed code.

Dr. Hipp, I love SQLite but also had simonw's misapprehension that the project did not accept contributions. The SQLite copyright page says:

> Contributed Code

> In order to keep SQLite completely free and unencumbered by copyright, the project does not accept patches. If you would like to suggest a change and you include a patch as a proof-of-concept, that would be great. However, please do not be offended if we rewrite your patch from scratch.

I realize that the section, "Open-Source, not Open-Contribution" says that the project accepts contributions, but I'm having trouble understanding how that section and the "Contributed Code" section can both be accurate. Is there a distinction between accepting a "patch" vs. accepting a "contribution?"

If you're planning to update this page to reduce confusion of the contribution policy, I humbly suggest a rewrite of this sentence to eliminate the single and double negatives, which make it harder to understand:

> In order to keep SQLite in the public domain and ensure that the code does not become contaminated with proprietary or licensed content, the project does not accept patches from people who have not submitted an affidavit dedicating their contribution into the public domain.

Could be rewritten as:

> In order to keep SQLite in the public domain and prevent contamination of the code from proprietary or licensed content, the project only accepts patches from people who have submitted an affidavit dedicating their contribution into the public domain.

[0] https://sqlite.org/copyright.html

Re: Show HN: Vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude Code

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Post by oopwhat »

fiyec30375 wrote: post #116
BobbyJo wrote: post #84

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Yes! I can't tell you the number of times I thought to myself "If only there was a way for this problem to be solved once instead of being solved over and over again". If that is the only thing AI is good at, then it's still a big step up for software IMO.

It's true. Why should everyone look up the same API docs and make the same mistakes when AI can write it for you instantly and correctly?

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Re: Show HN: Vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude Code

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Post by simonw »

mtlynch wrote: post #186
SQLite wrote: post #175

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, Simon, we don't "refuse". We are just very selective and there is a lot of paperwork involved to confirm the contribution is in the public domain and does not contaminate the SQLite core with licensed code. Please put the false narrative that "SQLite refuses outside contributions" to rest. The bar is high to get there, but the SQLite code base does contain contributed code.

Dr. Hipp, I love SQLite but also had simonw's misapprehension that the project did not accept contributions. The SQLite copyright page says: > Contributed Code > In order to keep SQLite completely free and unencumbered by copyright, the project does not accept patches. If you would like to suggest a change and you include a patch as a proof-of-concept, that would be great. However, please do not be offended if we rew…

Yes, that "does not accept patches" line must have been where I picked up my incorrect mental model.

Re: Show HN: Vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude Code

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Post by Arisaka1 »

boplicity wrote: post #75
spzb wrote: post #56

I am yet to see a vibe coded success that isn't a small program that already exists in multiple forms in the training data. Let's see something ground-breaking. If AI coding is so great and is going to take us to 10x or 100x productivity let's see it generate a new, highly efficient compression algorithm or a state-of-art travelling salesman solution.

> Let's see something ground-breaking Why? People don't ask hammers to do much more than bash in nails into walls. AI coding tools can be incredibly powerful -- but shouldn't that power be focused on what the tool is actually good at? There are many, many times that AI coding tools can and should be used to create a "small program that already exists in multiple forms in the training data." I do things like this very…

>Why?

Because I keep wondering myself if AI is here and our output is charged up, then why am I keep seeing more of the same products but with an "AI" sticker slapped on top of them? From a group of technologists like HN and the startup world, that live on the edge of evolution and revolution, maybe my expectations were a bit too high.

All I see is the equivalent of a "look how fast my new car made me go to the super market, when I'm not too demanding on the super market I want to end up with, and all I want is milk and eggs". Which is 100% fine, but at the end of the day I eat the same omelette as always. In this metaphor, I don't feel the slightest behind, or have any sense of FOMO if I cook my omelette slowly. I guess I have more time for my kids if I see the culinary arts as just a job. And it's not like restaurants suddenly get all their tables booked faster just because everyone cooks omelettes faster.

>It's allowed me to do things that I simply would not have been able to do previously.

You're not the one doing them. Me barking orders to John Carmack himself doesn't make me a Quake co-creator, and even if I micromanage his output like the world's most toxic micromanager who knows better I'm still not Carmack.

On top of that, you would have been able to do previously, if you cared enough to upskill to the point where token feeding isn't needed for you to feel productive. Tons of programmers broke barriers, and solved problems that haven't been solved by anyone in their companies before.

I don't see why everyone claiming that they previously couldn't do something is a bragging point. The LLM's that you're using were trained by the Google results you could've gotten if you Google searched.

Re: Show HN: Vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude Code

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Post by belter »

rabf wrote: post #148
belter wrote: post #139

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>> Chatbot which is optimized to impress nontechnical people Is that how we call Opus 4.5 now? :-)

That depends a lot on the system prompt and the tooling available to the model. Are you trying thin in Claude code or Factory.ai, or are you using a chat interface? The difference in the outcome can be large.

Random anecdotes from the Internet say no:

"I paid for the $100 Claude Max plan so you don't have to - an honest review" -https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1l5h2ds/i_paid_fo...

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