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

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Post by patcon » Wed, Apr 02, 2025, 4:40 AM UTC

ttd wrote: post #23

Is this a serious thing? If so, I'd like to know where I can purchase the wasp meat required to make this recipe: https://www.recipeninja.ai/recipe/r_NYrbOKZEyqrp7r/wasp-meat...

The Japanese tradition of raising and eating wasps https://www.splendidtable.org/story/2019/02/08/the-japanese-...

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

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Post by RainyDayTmrw » Wed, Apr 02, 2025, 4:41 AM UTC

ttd wrote: post #23

Is this a serious thing? If so, I'd like to know where I can purchase the wasp meat required to make this recipe: https://www.recipeninja.ai/recipe/r_NYrbOKZEyqrp7r/wasp-meat...

Is the AI also generating the contents of the recipes? Will it be Google telling us to eat rocks[1] again?

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd11gzejgz4o

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

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Post by simonw » Wed, Apr 02, 2025, 4:46 AM UTC

DidYaWipe wrote: post #30

What is "vibecoded" supposed to mean?

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/

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

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Post by osigurdson » Wed, Apr 02, 2025, 4:59 AM UTC

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 ChatGPT is really just as good as an AI enabled editor (or both if you don't mind paying for two subscriptions).

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

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Post by foragerdev » Wed, Apr 02, 2025, 5:00 AM UTC

took forever to open.

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

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Post by kunalchuadhari » Wed, Apr 02, 2025, 5:02 AM UTC

Interesting... Thanks for putting in the effort. I'm curious, did your previous knowledge of programming help you accept code changes, or do you just keep everything written by agent?

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

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Post by nextaccountic » Wed, Apr 02, 2025, 5:02 AM UTC

tomblomfield wrote: post #10

rsaz wrote: post #7

Is the key feature here just the voice control? I’m wondering what you feel is missing from other popular recipe websites/trackers, and why I would choose to use this over something with more care put into it. Or, was this mostly just an exercise in engineering/testing AI?

Hands-free voice control and being able to access recipe ingredients and steps without 5 pages of SEO-optimised prose.

The real problem of your website is that the recipes are AI generated.

A second, minor problem of your website is that the images illustrating recipes are AI generated with a bad quality

You can't solve those issues by throwing more AI.. well maybe the second problem you can (AI images with later models are generally ok)

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

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Post by admiralrohan » Wed, Apr 02, 2025, 5:04 AM UTC

Thanks for sharaing your journey, I have few observations

1. When I click on a recipe from home page it is maintaining the scroll position, so I am not seeing the top of the screen. Is this deliberate?

2. "Recipe Ninja was vibecoded by Tom in San Francisco." Will it increase of decrease trust in your system for users?

3. To remove AI changing random files, I use "Copy relative path" to tell AI which file to change (there is a keyboard shortcut too). Not fully vibe coding but can be useful for precision bug fixing.

Good luck with the project.

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

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Post by DontchaKnowit » Wed, Apr 02, 2025, 5:05 AM UTC

I understand that this is just kind of a proof of concept exposition of AI capabilities, but I fucking hate it and it is emblematic of the kind of low effort drivel that is infecting the internet. This is totally unusable in every way possible. While technically impressive (that AI can make a pretty-ish and functional website) it is practically useless.

Also, the photos are some of the most un-appetizing, uncanny valley, shit I've ever seen.

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

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Post by olibhel » Wed, Apr 02, 2025, 5:06 AM UTC

tomblomfield wrote: post #10

rsaz wrote: post #7

Is the key feature here just the voice control? I’m wondering what you feel is missing from other popular recipe websites/trackers, and why I would choose to use this over something with more care put into it. Or, was this mostly just an exercise in engineering/testing AI?

Hands-free voice control and being able to access recipe ingredients and steps without 5 pages of SEO-optimised prose.

Why would I want to do that when I can go to one of dozen AI chat interfaces and ask for recipes and further customization without having to look at any interface?