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

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Post by ioseph »

tgsovlerkhgsel wrote: post #61
MrVandemar wrote: post #60

"Still, I was determined not to write any code ... I just sat laughing as the computer wrote code." I can pop over to Midjourney and be determined not to draw a single line and "sit there laughing" as it draws the Mona Lisa in the style of Salvador Dali but with a turnip instead of a person. How is this any different? What is ultimately notable about it? Did any of it make you a better programmer? I'm always deeply i…

Programming is not art. In the end, nobody will care whether software was painstakingly hand-chiseled by humans in a dungeon or "vibe coded", as long as the result is good enough. (I'd argue that art will "suffer" from the same "problem".) What is notable here is that someone is demonstrating that the systems are reaching a quality where this is possible. > Did any of it make you a better programmer? By conventional…

I don't know about that, Roller Coaster Tycoon is fondly remembered and sits on a special place culturally because it was written in assembly by a single person.

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

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Post by baq »

selcuka wrote: post #76
apgwoz wrote: post #75

Help! I just made the Diarrhea Walnuts ( https://www.recipeninja.ai/recipe/r_N1VSPtXzCJVV3l/diarrhea-... ) recipe and it turns out I am allergic to Walnuts! I am throwing up everywhere! You’re gonna be hearing from my lawyers!

> Preheat oven to 950 Kelvin I believe I'm going to need a new oven...

You’re going to need a new home as a bonus

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

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Post by maxlin »

ilaksh wrote: post #80

People are putting disgusting nonsense in there. Maybe add an AI review step to block that stuff. Let them do the whole recipe, then just block it.

The only obvious problem here is showing all of them publicly. Let people do silly things but only show the sensible ones instead of being user hostile by default with false positives

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

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Post by deng »

> 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 (instead of what an AI thinks it might look based on the description).

You might be lucky and find these for free someplace on the web. However, those LLMs that "vibecoded" this Rails app for you are now also used to flood the web with garbage recipes, so finding good recipes on the web will become much, much harder than it already is. I browsed through the recipes and could not find a single one that actually looks real, so at the moment, you are just adding to this problem. This is why people still buy physical cooking books. The good ones are made with sturdy, thick paper so that you can get your dirty hands on them. This is what cooking is all about. Only unused cooking books stay clean.

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

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Post by alluro2 »

myvoiceismypass wrote: post #82
tomblomfield wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Since I wrote the blog post, I actually added automated tests which Windsurf / Claude Code runs before committing any change. It saved me a lot of headaches when the LLM decided to make random logic changes for no reason.

The LLM swaps out business logic without you knowing it? As someone who worries about determinism and doesn’t do much vibe coding, I am curious what’s going on here, thanks!

Absolutely, very often. It typically happens because it's trying to do more than you asked for.

Example scenario: you have a codebase that you iterated on with LLM, and it contains let's say 15 features with various implementation details. You continue tomorrow and want to make a small change to handle an edge-case. While making changes to one of the 3 required files, suddenly it will decide to also rewrite / "improve" other parts of the code that have nothing to do with your request, where pieces of previous logic will no longer exist - since it made 18 changes to the file, and there are 3 such files, good luck spotting it without thorough and detailed change review.

Also, if you made manual changes to generated code and than you ask it to add something to the code (within the same "conversation" / context, it will often replace your changes with how it originally wanted code to look like.

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

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Post by maxlin »

Because the app shows entirely unfiltered "crowdsourced" latest recipes which of course are ridiculous given this is public, I first thought this was some high effort april fools joke on vibe coding, AI slop and the insecurity / thoughtlessness of the results.

But there is some quality in it, I can't argue against that

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

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Post by jl6 »

I assume the insane recipes are generated from users’ prompts, so you might want some content warning or moderation. Kinda cool though that it generates recipes for anything, regardless of if it involves food.

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

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Post by herewulf »

viccis wrote: post #65
PeterHolzwarth wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[flagged]

Instead of complaining, why don't you click the link that was spoon fed directly to your cursor for the canonical answer within 3 seconds?

Because the effort needed to summarize the content of the links is barely more than posting them in the first place.

Who knows what kind of time wasting is on the other side of a link these days either.. Dark pattern cookie pop-ups, subscription pop-ups, intrusive ads, account registration demands, pay walls, etc..

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

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Post by DeathArrow »

I don't think I would want to cook and eat AI generated recipes. I don't like to read AI generated texts and I don't like to listen to AI generated music.

You can call me a snob, but I appreciate some things only if they are the result of work and creativity of humans.

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