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Re: Show HN: Vibe Coding a static site on a $25 Walmart Phone

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Post by yegle »

e12e wrote: post #22

> I used Claude Code for most of the setup. I had a blast. So, most/all of TFA is copied from Claude code? Or in other words, what you did was prompt Claude - not actually following the instructions on this page (they are the output of Claude)? Feels weird reading a sort of fictional/parallel reality description - if you follow these instructions you will arrive at a similar result as I got - only this is not how I d…

Yeah it's not $35 phone, it's the $35 for the phone and the cost of the tokens to generate the website using Claude's API.

I'd really want to see an actual $35 phone generating a website using a local LLM.

Re: Show HN: Vibe Coding a static site on a $25 Walmart Phone

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Post by MangoToupe »

stets wrote: post #38
MangoToupe wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Clause code is a saas no? None of the work happens on the local device. It's not like they got deepseek working on a smartphone... impressive as that might be

LLM inference is remote, yes, but tool calls happen locally on the device. So CC knows it has access to modify files, perform bash commands, etc.

Ok, so why not dial this in through a dildo?

Re: Show HN: Vibe Coding a static site on a $25 Walmart Phone

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Post by numpad0 »

throawayonthe wrote: post #7
trvz wrote: post #3

Disingenious title, as the phone at 25$ is subsidized. Sure, you can properly buy a phone for not much more, but so can you a Raspberry Pi.

what do you mean by subsidized? do you have to buy a phone plan with it? i tried to add it to cart, and while it says it's locked to Straight Talk, it's not making me pay for a plan (though i'm not in the us so i'm not gonna actually order it to check)

Nowhere in the world can you make a smartphone at $25 each, even with a bit of slave labor. Either the LTV of a phone is like few k dollars for them, or someone argues it is, or they want network effect, whatever. But $25 is too cheap of a price to make sense.

Re: Show HN: Vibe Coding a static site on a $25 Walmart Phone

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Post by stets »

yegle wrote: post #61
e12e wrote: post #22

> I used Claude Code for most of the setup. I had a blast. So, most/all of TFA is copied from Claude code? Or in other words, what you did was prompt Claude - not actually following the instructions on this page (they are the output of Claude)? Feels weird reading a sort of fictional/parallel reality description - if you follow these instructions you will arrive at a similar result as I got - only this is not how I d…

Yeah it's not $35 phone, it's the $35 for the phone and the cost of the tokens to generate the website using Claude's API. I'd really want to see an actual $35 phone generating a website using a local LLM.

it was $25

Re: Show HN: Vibe Coding a static site on a $25 Walmart Phone

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Post by stets »

MangoToupe wrote: post #62
stets wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

LLM inference is remote, yes, but tool calls happen locally on the device. So CC knows it has access to modify files, perform bash commands, etc.

Ok, so why not dial this in through a dildo?

That'd be cool too, wanna hack on it together?

Re: Show HN: Vibe Coding a static site on a $25 Walmart Phone

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Post by stets »

vlovich123 wrote: post #55

This really doesn’t use caching? I’m surprised it can just get posted to the front page and survive.

The only downtime has been due to phantom process killer (I think) still killing Andronix. I can't figure out why. Traffic was "only" 522 uniques today, easyyy for such a small site behind Nginx

Re: Show HN: Vibe Coding a static site on a $25 Walmart Phone

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Post by stets »

neilv wrote: post #54

I think this post is about enthusiasm for using an LLM. One of the problems is that, if you use an LLM like this, and then post the output, you've probably just laundered at least one other person's copyrighted work (about how to do this kind of thing) through an LLM, and then put your name on it.

What? The how-to is the concerning part and not the code?

Re: Show HN: Vibe Coding a static site on a $25 Walmart Phone

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Post by Natfan »

mikert89 wrote: post #44
Natfan wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

sorry but isn't this just theft²?

the time is coming when you can take screenshots of an app and generate a full backend. we are no where near the limits of what we are about to see happen to software. idk whats legal, but its soon an irrelevant question

legality will soon be an irrelevant question? i genuinely fear the world which you would to usher into existence

Re: Show HN: Vibe Coding a static site on a $25 Walmart Phone

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Post by Natfan »

quintu5 wrote: post #27
Natfan wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

sorry but isn't this just theft²?

Well you see he ran it through in through an LLM, but LLMs are lossy, so who can say if the output was a direct result of the copyrighted code or if the model focused on his unique prompting words and conjured the output from its own latent space without referencing copyrighted input at all? /s Alternatively, we could take the model makers’ view and say that if they didn’t want their code reused, they wouldn’t have m…

the model makers opinion is no different than "if she didn't want to be ogled/cat called, she shouldn't have been wearing [insert literally any type of clothing here] when travelling from A to B in a public place"
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