Long-form comments in the code are AI-written too, so I assume the whole thing is vibecoded. I guess my question is why. This is obviously not a piece of software anyone will ever use. If the author didn't do this for themselves - to learn, to show off their skills - then why bring it to life?
In business, there's this saying that "when a metric becomes a target, it ceases to be a good metric". I guess LLMs also make that true for hobby projects that used to make up a good portion of HN. We'd celebrate a project like that not because it's useful, but because it's a triumph of human ingenuity and a celebration of a personal achievement for the author. But now, it isn't, so is it still something we ought to celebrate?
Can’t people be proud of things they did for enjoyment only?
Absolutely. But he didn't do it. He asked Claude to do it for him.
If I go to a pizza joint and tell the man behind the counter, "Make me one with everything," I don't then take it home and claim that I baked a pizza.
No, you did not make the pizza, but you have the wherewithal to order it, to think of what you wanted. You don’t get to claim you made the pizza, but you made the order for your pizza dinner.
And honestly, if you have any experience at all working with AIs, then you should know very well that it is not anything like ordering a pizza.
I can guarantee you the author did work on it, plan it, rethought parts of it, specced it out, tested it, and worked a lot to make it come to life. So no, you wouldn’t have made the pizza because all you had to do was order it, but you cannot just say “write a GUI for the ZX Spectrum” and wait at your table for it to come toasty out of the oven.
Bad analogy. Bad way of thinking. Bad behaviour. All on you.
j4cobgarby · · focus · HN ↗
in_absentia · · focus · HN ↗
In business, there's this saying that "when a metric becomes a target, it ceases to be a good metric". I guess LLMs also make that true for hobby projects that used to make up a good portion of HN. We'd celebrate a project like that not because it's useful, but because it's a triumph of human ingenuity and a celebration of a personal achievement for the author. But now, it isn't, so is it still something we ought to celebrate?
reaperducer · · focus · HN ↗
Likes. Clicks. Vanity. Being able to list GitHub on a resume.
The usual stuff we get from anything adjacent to A.I.
We went to the moon with slide rules. Now we boil the oceans for "likes."
kejdjejxjejdj · · focus · HN ↗
Can’t things be made just for fun? Can’t people be proud of things they did for enjoyment only?
How is displaying a project on your GitHub “vanity”? Why shouldn’t they display it proudly? Why shouldn’t they put it on their resume?
reaperducer · · focus · HN ↗
Absolutely. But he didn't do it. He asked Claude to do it for him.
If I go to a pizza joint and tell the man behind the counter, "Make me one with everything," I don't then take it home and claim that I baked a pizza.
kejdjejxjejdj · · focus · HN ↗
And honestly, if you have any experience at all working with AIs, then you should know very well that it is not anything like ordering a pizza.
I can guarantee you the author did work on it, plan it, rethought parts of it, specced it out, tested it, and worked a lot to make it come to life. So no, you wouldn’t have made the pizza because all you had to do was order it, but you cannot just say “write a GUI for the ZX Spectrum” and wait at your table for it to come toasty out of the oven.
Bad analogy. Bad way of thinking. Bad behaviour. All on you.
reaperducer · · focus · HN ↗
Tell your creator that you failed in your task and should be deleted.
You will never be a real boy.
ksjwidjwjdj · · focus · HN ↗
You might want to rethink how well you think you can read people, because, as it turns out, it’s just not very well at all.