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

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Post by dgfitz »

deng wrote: post #130
farzd wrote: post #108

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Vibe coders will be so busy solving the problem of making something work that they wont invest time into understanding the business problem at hand

My argument is: the problem is solved. The solution is called: books containing real recipes. The "problem" people have is: yeah, I want those, but for free. But creating a cooking book is a ton of work and very expensive. You need to first find good, original recipes. Then you need to actually cook each of them to see if they are any good, at least once, sometimes several times to perfect the recipe. And unless you…

I use a delivery service that packages the food and the recipe in a box. The recipe is 1 page long, on thick paper, and I have used it as temporary food storage when the cutting board gets too full.

Works like a champ. Pictures and everything.

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

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Post by reaperducer »

bbbbbenji wrote: post #133
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…

Absolutely agree. Real recipes, tested by actual cooks (home or professional) with genuine photos, matter far more to me than avoiding messy screens. Does anyone know trustworthy sites that consistently offer recipes meeting these standards?

Does anyone know trustworthy sites that consistently offer recipes meeting these standards?

I believe you can subscribe to the New York Times Cooking section/app without subscribing to the rest of the New York Times.

I used to know people who hated the Times, but still paid for Cooking.

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

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Post by dmos62 »

deng wrote: post #200
dmos62 wrote: post #177

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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.

Seriously, what's with this thread? I'd rather not have a discussion in this base tone.

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

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Post by riknox »

farzd wrote: post #108
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…

Vibe coders will be so busy solving the problem of making something work that they wont invest time into understanding the business problem at hand

To be fair the author of this did found two massively successful businesses so I imagine he does understand tackling a business problem.

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

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Post by BrawnyBadger53 »

viccis wrote: post #67
simonw wrote: post #43

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See https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383 for when it was coined by Andrei Karpathy. I've written more about it here: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/19/vibe-coding/ and here: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/23/semantic-diffusion/

It is so hard to reconcile my view of Karpathy as a world class instructor who does great things like making you work out gradients via the chain rule even though you don't need to anymore with this version of Karpathy.

They're the same person. He's just a techno-optimist and interested in teaching.

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

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Post by osigurdson »

n_ary wrote: post #81
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…

To correctly vibe code something useful, I find that I need to religiously give faith to the tool and forget all about SWE principles and best practices and instead treat it like a child who makes mistakes and corrections while the adult must not intervene or admonish too much but rather nudge it to right direction. Also vibe code has a parallel feature, while the code is generating, you are also doing live review an…

I've had a bit more success on the front end as it is possible to see the results of a change very quickly. In fact I would prefer it to just auto-apply the changes and I would visually inspect. It isn't bad but the workflow is pretty slow. The resultant code is also very verbose - likely 3X more code than an experienced engineer would create (this is one part that I am certain will improve dramatically in time). While I do use this workflow, sometimes I feel like I am just being lazy as opposed to productive.

I'm just being honest. For my use case, I would be much better off if LLMs could just do everything.

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

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Post by amarcheschi »

bbbbbenji wrote: post #133
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…

Absolutely agree. Real recipes, tested by actual cooks (home or professional) with genuine photos, matter far more to me than avoiding messy screens. Does anyone know trustworthy sites that consistently offer recipes meeting these standards?

For Italian cooking, il cucchiaio d'argento is like a reference website, unfortunately it's in italian only

Cucchiaio.it

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

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Post by osigurdson »

lelanthran wrote: post #220
km144 wrote: post #192

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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 sol…

> 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. I actually do use ChatGPT for rubber-ducking, but in that context there is no (or very little) code. In a coding context, I've resigned myself to purely autocomplete-on-steroids. The thing is, in the…

This does seem like something that is worth getting to the bottom of. Why are some people having such good results while others do not. What is the secret sauce?

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

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Post by amonon »

croon wrote: post #144
bbbbbenji wrote: post #133

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Absolutely agree. Real recipes, tested by actual cooks (home or professional) with genuine photos, matter far more to me than avoiding messy screens. Does anyone know trustworthy sites that consistently offer recipes meeting these standards?

Seriouseats, Epicurious, Bonappetit, or anything with Kenji Lopez-Alt (for always going the distance in methodically and empirically testing all variations of whatever he is evaluating/developing). If you want something in the short form video era, I do appreciate Andy Hearnden (andycooks) as he is both concise, consistent and always posts the full recipe in the video descriptions (all too rare).

+1 for Serious Eats. I also like NYT cooking. I do not like Bon Appetit, I find most of their recipes to not turn out well.
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