Sometimes when I’m vibe coding I feel like Ender from Ender’s Game and even though I’m making a stupid web app, I’m actually somehow actually winning a battle across the universe.
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#12Sometimes when I’m vibe coding I feel like Ender from Ender’s Game and even though I’m making a stupid web app, I’m actually somehow actually winning a battle across the universe.
Nobody tell him
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#13Speaking of SerpAPI: Why we’re taking legal action against SerpApi’s unlawful scraping https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46329109
SerpAPI provides a very valuable programmatic access to search that Google are hell bent on never properly providing
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#14While currently taste is what we are banking on the thing humans will continue doing but I don’t think that will last for long.
It is easy to defer to the "taste" of the mathematically mixed up assessment of "all internet-recorded human taste" if you prefer. And many will choose that. But many others will choose to remain in charge of their own taste, as best they can, and request that the machines still produce output per their bidding.
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#15These are the perfect size projects vibe coding is currently good for. At some point you hit a project size that is too large or has too many interdependencies, and you have to be very careful about how you manage the context and should expect the llm to start generating too much code or subtle bugs. Once you hit that size, in my opinion, it's usually best to drop back to brainstorming mode, only use the llm to help…
> make use of existing code, or be clever and replace a few lines of code with a few more lines of code
You can be explicit about these things.
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#16While currently taste is what we are banking on the thing humans will continue doing but I don’t think that will last for long.
yeah there's nothing special about taste most of the time, very few people even have a decent sense of it anyway
you can tell by how many people earnestly share AI generated images, many are completely tasteless but people don't care
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#17While currently taste is what we are banking on the thing humans will continue doing but I don’t think that will last for long.
yeah there's nothing special about taste most of the time, very few people even have a decent sense of it anyway you can tell by how many people earnestly share AI generated images, many are completely tasteless but people don't care
Author has a great taste, you can see it by just visiting their website.
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#18These are the perfect size projects vibe coding is currently good for. At some point you hit a project size that is too large or has too many interdependencies, and you have to be very careful about how you manage the context and should expect the llm to start generating too much code or subtle bugs. Once you hit that size, in my opinion, it's usually best to drop back to brainstorming mode, only use the llm to help…
I agree with you as far as project size for vibe-coding goes - as-in often not even looking at the generated code.
But I have no issues with using Claude Code to write code in larger projects, including adapting to existing patterns, it’s just not vibe coding - I architect the modules, and I know more or less exactly what I want the end result to be. I review all code in detail to make sure it’s precisely what I want. You just have to write good instructions and manage the context well (give it sample code to reference, have agent.md files for guidance, etc.)
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#19I Love the fact that the browser search functionality works in the bookshelf.
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#20I love this, the end result looks so good.
Something you don’t really mention in the post is why do this? Do you have an end goal or utility in mind for the book shelf? Is it literally just to track ownership? What do you do with that information?