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Bend 2 and the Vibe-Coding Trap

327 points · 235 comments · LiamPowell

pu_pe · 1789734235 · focus · HN ↗
The original discussion about the project (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49746163">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49746163) is very weird. Lots of call-outs about how the author is some sort of celebrity and random accounts vouching for him, with little discussion on the substance.
Not even the demo on that release works well.
1. larodi · 1789734548 · focus · HN ↗
  The whole original conversation was very smelly from the very start, 20k stars included on the GitHub page with lost history.
  1. marvinborner · 1789737937 · focus · HN ↗
    The Bend1 launch was very successful, with 1000+ hn upvotes [0] and with several youtube videos with up to 1M+ views [1] [2] - that's where a lot of the popularity came from, I believe. They just recycled the Bend1 repo for Bend2 even though it's a completely different language.
    [0] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40390287">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40390287
    [1] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCOQmKTFzYY" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCOQmKTFzYY
    [2] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaytZOiX3fs" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaytZOiX3fs
    raincole · 1789742049 · focus · HN ↗
    It sounds even worse. Actually far worse. It's a project already in use and the author just nuked the whole git history?
    gf000 · 1789743173 · focus · HN ↗
    It's a research language, of the more experimental and niche type.
    No one uses it seriously, and the author since then reverted the nuking of the git history.

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