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Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns

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Re: Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns

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Post by philipwhiuk »

sdevonoes wrote: post #32
simonw wrote: post #8

I expect most side-projects are being built with AI-assistance now. Side projects are typically time constrained - if AI saves you time, why wouldn't you use it? They're also the ideal place to try out new AI tools that your professional work might not let you experiment with. (The headline of this piece doesn't really do it justice - it misuses "vibe coded" and fails to communicate that the substance of the post is…

For me it wouldn’t make sense to use ai. Like I work on personal projects because they are fun: it’s fun to think about a problem, to solve it, to implement a solution, to learn new things and to fantasise about what if it gets popular and useful. If I can use AI to flip my fingers and make it happen, well wheres the fun? I have my day to day job to use AI for mundane things Besides, the idea of paying 200$/month to…

The one caveat I have with this is that the underlying project might be fun but the website/write-up might be a chore. Hence AI for the chore bit.

I don't think this is overwhelmingly the reason though - I think many are just all AI, but if the project is technically interesting it might be sufficient to get me to grimace through it.

Re: Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns

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Post by bobthepanda »

malfist wrote: post #35
bobthepanda wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cards have been in vogue for a while and I can’t recall the last time I saw super hard corners on a design system. It’s been a thing since at least Apple filing that patent on rounded corners.

Look at the website you're on

I guess I should say on a new design system. HN doesn’t update all that much (and in this context that’s a good thing)

Re: Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns

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Post by avereveard »

michaelcampbell wrote: post #11
julia-kafarska wrote: post #2

There's a big difference between vibe-coder and engineer who uses ai to speed up their work.

Indeed, and I don't think there's any reliable signal other than the author saying so that something is "vibe coded" vs. "I used an LLM for some aspect of it."

Ask a llm for a code review along code duplication, encapsulation and sequential coupling as quality axes and the difference should show up readily

Re: Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns

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Post by slibhb »

vunderba wrote: post #36
simonw wrote: post #8

I expect most side-projects are being built with AI-assistance now. Side projects are typically time constrained - if AI saves you time, why wouldn't you use it? They're also the ideal place to try out new AI tools that your professional work might not let you experiment with. (The headline of this piece doesn't really do it justice - it misuses "vibe coded" and fails to communicate that the substance of the post is…

My biggest issue with LLM‑assisted webpages (Claude Code is especially egregious) is the lack of respect for basic web content accessibility guidelines. The number of dark‑mode sites I’ve seen where the text (and subtext) are various shades of dark brown or beige is just awful. For reference, you want a contrast ratio between the text and background of at least ~4:1 to be on the safe side. This isn't even that hard t…

Just chiming in to say I don't care at all about accessibility and I find it bewildering that every thread sharing some project has a comment like this.

Re: Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns

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Post by curious1008 »

There will be more and more as the coding agents advance. However, I think it'll reach a point where the people currently building the "vibe-coded" products get a better understanding of what they are actually building and the rest (vast majority) wont even bother to try coding at all, even with AI's assistance.

Re: Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns

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Post by user34283 »

julia-kafarska wrote: post #2

There's a big difference between vibe-coder and engineer who uses ai to speed up their work.

Perhaps a year ago “vibe coding” was indicative of a low quality product.

It seems many have not updated their understanding to match today’s capabilities.

I am vibe coding.

That does not mean I am incompetent or that the product will be bad. I have 10 years of experience.

Using agentic AI to implement, iterate, and debug issues is now the workflow most teams are targeting.

While last year chances were slim for the agent to debug tricky issues, I feel that now it can figure out a lot once you have it instrument the app and provide logs.

It sometimes feels like some commenters stick with last year’s mindset and feel entitled to yell about ‘AI slop’ at the first sign of an issue in a product and denigrate the author’s competence.

Re: Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns

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Post by binary132 »

cmrdporcupine wrote: post #25

The coding tools raise the bar and muddy the waters. If "Show HN" submissions can just as easily be done by myself in a weekend, I don't pay attention. The signal-noise ratio just gets destroyed and the forum will just be ignored. Likewise, the issue is often that many of these projects show no evidence of long term maintenance. That might be the new signal we watch for? There also used to be a sense in the tech comm…

The ongoing tragedy of the commons has made the state of the commons uncommonly tragic, and it will become a wasteland. You are right to identify the problem, but yeah, “getting eyes on my slop” in a public forum just isn’t realistically going to happen any more when there’s an infinite ocean of supply of slop and ever-dwindling available interest in picking through it looking for ever fewer gems. The future is underground.

Re: Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns

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Post by TaupeRanger »

dematz wrote: post #12
simonw wrote: post #8

I expect most side-projects are being built with AI-assistance now. Side projects are typically time constrained - if AI saves you time, why wouldn't you use it? They're also the ideal place to try out new AI tools that your professional work might not let you experiment with. (The headline of this piece doesn't really do it justice - it misuses "vibe coded" and fails to communicate that the substance of the post is…

>if AI saves you time, why wouldn't you use it AI might (might not, but often does!) also save you from doing original thinking in the domain, which in a show my side project is what people are interested in

Not likely. Original thinking in a "side project" is almost never about the code itself, but the ideas and end product implementation. You might be able to invent things like Carmack's BSP implementation, Torvald's Content Addressable Storage, etc. but even things like that can be aided by LLMs at this point, at least in the prototyping/idea phases. AI doesn't prevent you from having good ideas or doing original thinking if that is your goal.

Re: Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns

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Post by [deleted] »

simonw wrote: post #14
dematz wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>if AI saves you time, why wouldn't you use it AI might (might not, but often does!) also save you from doing original thinking in the domain, which in a show my side project is what people are interested in

Sure... and it might also help you do more original thinking in that domain, and hence help you get a lot more learning value out of the time you have for those side projects. The trick is to deliberately use it in a way that helps you learn.

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