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Show HN: I vibecoded a 35k LoC recipe app

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

#22
Nice work! The voice control is actually really, really cool. I was able to say "show me a chicken tikka masala recipe" which got me 3 recipes, and then I said "show me the third one" and it opened nearly instantly. Pretty awesome. I want this for my entire computer!

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

#24
I also wrote a recipe simplifying website, so this is a fun project to see. Incredible work!

Probably the main value engineers have for a maintenance project is context. I wonder what happens when we fully cede context to the machines...

Today, I got a request at work for a feature ("let's offer coupons!") that I thought would take a week. That was until I found out that another engineer wrote most of the code last year, and it'd take him a day to dust off.

I'm totally onboard with, and grateful for, larger-scale experiments like this...thanks for putting the effort in. I wonder how well Cursor (or similar) would handle a situation in which large amounts of code are _almost_ being used. What if 3k LOC accidentally get duplicated? Can our automated systems understand that and fix it? Because if they can't, a human is going to spend a _long_ time trying to figure out what happened.

Over the next 18 months, I expect we'll hear a few stories of the LLM accidentally reimplementing an entire feature in a separate code path. It's a whole new class of bugs! :D

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

#27
post #5

I type "lasagne", hit enter, some things pop up and disappear before I can read them, and then I get a solid white screen. (in Firefox)

Hmm it seems like recipe generation might be broken on Firefox. I'll look into it - thanks! It's working in Chrome Search is working fine, I just tried https://www.recipeninja.ai/search?name=lasagne

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

#28
I think the recipes on your site are AI-generated? If you're looking to generate a large number of recipes, I highly recommend my tool: https://github.com/Yiling-J/tablepilot. It's specifically designed for this kind of task. Don't forget to check out the examples folder, I use recipes as examples a lot.
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