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

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Post by lvspiff »

I took a jab at using github copilot to vibecode a static portfolio website for my wife. I wanted to get some better familiarity with terraform so seeing what it built for those files while linking up with my custom domain on cloudflare was pretty neat. Terraform S3, iam permissions, cloudfrpnt, dynamodb, secrets and certificates and even cloudflare dns settings. Everything done in vscode with github copilot chat allowing it to run cmd line.

Then i had it incorporate some lambda functions for editing and administrative functions for the site.Getting the github action figured out to allow me to use whatever codespace or whatever to edit. It gave me added practice breaking down projects into small agile tasks in essence. It’s like having a small team of jr. programmers, testers, and devops team at my disposal to create a POC

It all came together in a couple days, looks decent, processes files, and isnt costing me anything more than the domain registration. I now have a site that i can trigger a github action executing terraform to update the html or css or lambda files if need be. Yeah the code isnt perfect nor is it perfect architecture patterns but it was a fun way to spend a few hours over a weekend to see the power of the service now.

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

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Post by readdit »

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.

Ops’ title is pretty clear on the content of the post.

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

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Post by wiseowise »

hackerInnen wrote: post #20
mikert89 wrote: post #10

I just restyled a full saas app thats doing 50k in arr per month, bootstrapped. I already shipped it to production. A major UX/element/component overhaul. It looks 10x more professional. I did it this afternoon, sitting on my couch. I took a raw css/html assets from a very professional saas app, and gave it to claude code. I wrote no code, and did not even review the code. This field is truly on its way to full autom…

> This field is truly on its way to full automation. What do you even mean by that? Full automation of irrelevant, simple as hell, saas apps? Maybe yes. Everything else that actually needs some thought? Nah, not happening anytime soon - given that no genius with a brand new architecture comes around tomorrow. LLMs just ain't getting any better really. It's just micro steps by now

What industry are you in and what do you do there? I’m always baffled by these “actually needs some thought” that end up being just another CRUD. Maybe you’re Peter Norvig’s alt, or Linus casually browsing on a burner account?

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

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Post by childintime »

In Kenya you can actually buy a $20 4G 32GB 2GB smartphone. I hadn't thought it possible, but it's an okay phone that suffers in multitasking.

Btw, this phone is locked to at least have 1 safaricom chip, but no monthly plan is necessary.

Edit: https://www.jumia.co.ke/safaricom-neon-smarta-2-ips-lcd-disp...

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

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Post by Gud »

101008 wrote: post #50
stets wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think your comment is meant to imply I don't know what I'm doing.

Do you? If someone asks you to change anything in the configuration, do you think you can do it without the help of AI? That's the difference between knowing and understanding. I may read a Math proof and understanding. That doesn't mean I can replicate it or adapting to other proofs (and that's basically the Advanced Calculus tests I used to take when I was in college). I think that's what happened to you. Someone/s…

What makes you assume people who use LLMs don’t understand what’s going on?

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

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Post by stavros »

stets wrote: post #26
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…

I opened Obsidian, wrote down the steps that I performed + pieces claude did. Most of what I did was little troubleshooting bits or hooking things together. That + every little quirk or weird thing I ran into (eg: phantom process killer, which I actually did setup via adb) that I felt was worth mentioning and might help. Then I told Claude to organize the document better, read it over myself, asked for edits or thing…

My god, the amount of hate this site has for LLMs, it's unbearable. Good for you for having a project and seeing it through, all the lazy "It UsEd An LlM So It DoeSn'T CoUnT" gatekeeping doesn't belong here and I wish all those uncurious comments were flagged.

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

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Post by hackerInnen »

wiseowise wrote: post #74
hackerInnen wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> This field is truly on its way to full automation. What do you even mean by that? Full automation of irrelevant, simple as hell, saas apps? Maybe yes. Everything else that actually needs some thought? Nah, not happening anytime soon - given that no genius with a brand new architecture comes around tomorrow. LLMs just ain't getting any better really. It's just micro steps by now

What industry are you in and what do you do there? I’m always baffled by these “actually needs some thought” that end up being just another CRUD. Maybe you’re Peter Norvig’s alt, or Linus casually browsing on a burner account?

Anything that is safety related or needs signal control. So embedded systems and anything related. Aerospace, defense, anything. There is so so much stuff.

Not even talking about AI writing HDL's. They just can't do it and put latches everywhere (they are bad. you should put registers instead)

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