The end result is interesting but I'd prefer the blog entry itself to be human-written.
Thank you for the honest feedback! I'll stick to writing content by hand for future blog posts.
Show HN: I built a game on my old phone without knowing what I was building
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Re: Show HN: I built a game on my old phone without knowing what I was building
#22Why can't we just call it "play". That is what we used to call doing things without a purpose. I wish people would disclose when they used an LLM to write for them. This comes across as so clearly written by ChatGPT (I don't know if it is) that it seriously devalues any potential insights contained within. At least if the author was honest, I'd be able to judge their writing accordingly.
There was a very specific purpose here - to build a web-based accelerometer game. If I were to compare this with playing, I would say this is more akin to playing with a special kind of clay that shape-shifts itself based on your instructions.
As for the LLM-generated writing - I've updated the blog post with a 'meta' section explaining how LLMs generated the post itself. I've shared the link to the specific section as a response to other comments with the same criticism - I don't want to link to the blog again here and risk looking like a spam bot.
Re: Show HN: I built a game on my old phone without knowing what I was building
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Today on the front page there was an obviously vibe coded python script that pulls OSM data and slaps a colour scheme on it. Of course the data was skewed, because apparently LLMs don't do projections... I gave up on the first non-ironic 'You are absolutely correct' comment... What is even real...
To be fair, vibe discovery is a lot more viable than vibe coding. Vibe coding implies the LLM output is acceptable. Vibe discovery implies a human in the loop, because LLMs can't "discover". They have no inate preference based on their lived experience in the same sense that a human or any biological organism does.
Exactly! LLMs' (or any Gen-AI) lack of lived-experience/emotions is their Achilles heel. The best human creators understand how to inspire emotions mainly because they can feel it themselves. Most other humans, despite innately understanding emotions, can't really create things that inspire emotions in others. So, Gen-AI as we know it today can't really reach a point where it deeply, personally understands and inspires emotions. Vibe discovery bridges this gap, I think.
Re: Show HN: I built a game on my old phone without knowing what I was building
#24You posted the prompt to the game, care to post the prompt to the blog post? I don't care what an LLM thinks about how you built your game. I would like to know what you think, but I'm not going to try to salvage it from an LLM-generated blog post.
Here you go - https://www.kikkupico.com/posts/vibe-discovery/#the-meta The blog post was written by Claude Code, reviewed by Gemini Pro, ChatGPT 5.2 Thinking, Kimi K2 Thinking, Deepseek Deep Thinking and me. Naturally, all the LLMs failed to judge that AI-generated writing is a turn-off for most readers. I failed to judge that too.
Thank you!