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Re: Show HN: I vibecoded a 35k LoC recipe app

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Post by milliams »

deng wrote: post #94

> It now includes a fully interactive voice assistant so you don't need to get your dirty hands over your new iPad when you're cooking. Always floored about the problems people think need fixing. The problem is not that you get your dirty hands on the iPad. The problem is that you want real recipes. You know, things people have actually cooked and found to be good. With real photos of how the result actually looks (i…

Indeed. See Ann Reardon's recent video on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVaYJgmPvCg

Re: Show HN: I vibecoded a 35k LoC recipe app

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Post by km144 »

lelanthran wrote: post #179
osigurdson wrote: post #44

I have a paid subscription to Windsurf using Claude. I struggle to find much utility in terms of actually writing code. It spends a lot of time trying / retrying and glitching out. I'm sure in a couple of years it will be amazing (assuming a fundamental breakthrough isn't required) but it isn't quite there yet. LLMs are super useful but currently, the primary use case is teaching, not doing. For this reason, I think…

> LLMs are super useful but currently, the primary use case is teaching, not doing. For code? Autocomplete on steroids is the killer-app. The other things the LLMs give me are prone to be over-engineered/overly verbose code or similar. I went through a lot of "Why are you also doing $FOO then $BAR? Doesn't seem necessary if we skip them and do $BAZ which will make one or both of those redundant" and it responding "Yo…

I think you're missing the value of rubber-ducking with the chatbot on a fairly well-defined/well-known problem in a somewhat specific/novel scenario—this is the vast majority of software development being done today.

Depending on the situation this can be invaluable. If you're experienced in the domain you probably know generally what you need to do but you might get a better result by reasoning through the best solution with the constraints and requirements you have. Or maybe you missed something obvious when you write out the full context—which is a required step for getting a good output from the chatbot, and generally isn't a required step if you aren't explaining your approach to someone else and you don't want to be rigorous.

Re: Show HN: I vibecoded a 35k LoC recipe app

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Post by fatata123 »

kpcyrd wrote: post #187
deng wrote: post #94

> It now includes a fully interactive voice assistant so you don't need to get your dirty hands over your new iPad when you're cooking. Always floored about the problems people think need fixing. The problem is not that you get your dirty hands on the iPad. The problem is that you want real recipes. You know, things people have actually cooked and found to be good. With real photos of how the result actually looks (i…

As somebody who cooks quite a lot (for a diverse set of people), I have the opposite experience of what you describe (also I hate having to touch my screen while cooking). The cooking book scene has been openly criticized for not actually trying the recipes, even before LLMs were a thing[0]. Regular cooking websites have always been somewhat unusable due to massive ads and fluff text because 1) SEO and 2) recipes are…

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Re: Show HN: I vibecoded a 35k LoC recipe app

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Post by bakuninsbart »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #185
liendolucas wrote: post #147

A cooking web app 35k LoC? Wow, the author might be surprised to know that an entire OS kernel can be programmed at a fraction of that count. I can safely say that the days where we compained about JS bloat can be put aside, this is a whole new league by itself. Sane advice: learn to program, put the AI hype/drug aside and do yourself a favor. It's an invaluable lifetime skill knowing to program from scratch and perh…

I kinda wish I could look at the code, but it's not open source and the frontend sources are minified/obfuscated, but it's long and looks like it's using React and a css-in-react approach, which also generates a ton of code.

The term "vibe coding" gives me bad vibes, I feel that it is in some way an insult to my craft, the way a carpenter might feel about Ikea. But if only LLM's are going to read the code, the LoC aren't a big problem, increasing cost significantly less than if a real person would have to read it.

The two biggest issues I can think of with this approach is performance and security, with the first one only being a problem if you "make it", and the second one being too often ignored with or without vibe coding.

Re: Show HN: I vibecoded a 35k LoC recipe app

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Post by deng »

kpcyrd wrote: post #187
deng wrote: post #94

> It now includes a fully interactive voice assistant so you don't need to get your dirty hands over your new iPad when you're cooking. Always floored about the problems people think need fixing. The problem is not that you get your dirty hands on the iPad. The problem is that you want real recipes. You know, things people have actually cooked and found to be good. With real photos of how the result actually looks (i…

As somebody who cooks quite a lot (for a diverse set of people), I have the opposite experience of what you describe (also I hate having to touch my screen while cooking). The cooking book scene has been openly criticized for not actually trying the recipes, even before LLMs were a thing[0]. Regular cooking websites have always been somewhat unusable due to massive ads and fluff text because 1) SEO and 2) recipes are…

What the hell is the "cooking book scene"? You make it sound like some cabal of cooking book writers sitting in some basement, conspiring to lead people astray. Nobody is saying that all cooking books are great, of course there are loads of shitty cooking books, and of course you are free to criticize that, even openly if you dare. I somehow cope by buying the good ones.

My experience with LLM recipes is like with pretty much everything else these things generate: usually very mediocre, mixed with glaring errors in between. If you are an experienced cook, you'll be able to manage since you'll recognize the errors.

Re: Show HN: I vibecoded a 35k LoC recipe app

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Post by zild3d »

deng wrote: post #94

> It now includes a fully interactive voice assistant so you don't need to get your dirty hands over your new iPad when you're cooking. Always floored about the problems people think need fixing. The problem is not that you get your dirty hands on the iPad. The problem is that you want real recipes. You know, things people have actually cooked and found to be good. With real photos of how the result actually looks (i…

Are you trying to tell me this Rubbery Lasagne isn't a real recipe?

https://www.recipeninja.ai/recipe/r_LZarKW1PMNlSlx/rubbery-l...

All Ingredients

- rubber cement, 2 cups

- water, 1 cup

- lasagne noodles, 1 box

- shredded mozzarella, 2 cups

...

Step 2

Prepare the rubber sauce by mixing 2 cups of rubber cement with 1 cup of water in a saucepan over low heat until thickened.

Re: Show HN: I vibecoded a 35k LoC recipe app

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Post by wiether »

johnisgood wrote: post #168
wiether wrote: post #164

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please inform your orange overlord to ban this gov website asap! https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/132907NCJRS.pdf

It was just a note to the developer because he may get in legal trouble for it (it happened before), the Government obviously will not. Edit: Both "recipes" have been deleted (the URL should tell you what it was about).

I read your comment before the edit so please accept my apologies

Saying that posting a simple recipe for cocaine was probably illegal sounded very "puritan american"

As a European (French) myself, I'm surprised that you feel that way because I remember reading in a chemistry book in high-school how to make explosives and our chemistry teacher took the complete timeslot to respond in details to someone who asked if, like Walter White, they could make meth.

Re: Show HN: I vibecoded a 35k LoC recipe app

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Post by adlpz »

zild3d wrote: post #197
deng wrote: post #94

> It now includes a fully interactive voice assistant so you don't need to get your dirty hands over your new iPad when you're cooking. Always floored about the problems people think need fixing. The problem is not that you get your dirty hands on the iPad. The problem is that you want real recipes. You know, things people have actually cooked and found to be good. With real photos of how the result actually looks (i…

Are you trying to tell me this Rubbery Lasagne isn't a real recipe? https://www.recipeninja.ai/recipe/r_LZarKW1PMNlSlx/rubbery-l... All Ingredients - rubber cement, 2 cups - water, 1 cup - lasagne noodles, 1 box - shredded mozzarella, 2 cups ... Step 2 Prepare the rubber sauce by mixing 2 cups of rubber cement with 1 cup of water in a saucepan over low heat until thickened.

This is the funniest thing I've read in a while. Thanks.

Re: Show HN: I vibecoded a 35k LoC recipe app

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Post by deng »

dmos62 wrote: post #177
deng wrote: post #94

> It now includes a fully interactive voice assistant so you don't need to get your dirty hands over your new iPad when you're cooking. Always floored about the problems people think need fixing. The problem is not that you get your dirty hands on the iPad. The problem is that you want real recipes. You know, things people have actually cooked and found to be good. With real photos of how the result actually looks (i…

I don't know why everyone is so salty. It's like putting "vibecode" in the headline attracted the worst in people. For context, I'm not a cooking geek or virtuoso. I enjoy it to some degree, but mostly it's just about having a nice, nutritious experience, in line with whatever my mood might be. I only ever measure things super accurately when I'm baking things in the bread maker (because it doesn't let you make corre…

> In my experience, most "human recipes" are just random variations on some baseline.

This just shows your lack of experience and curiosity. The art of cooking is a cultural achievement with thousands of years of history, with vast differences between different countries and cultures. Just visit a store (yes, a real one) with a good cooking book section. You might be surprised.

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