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1. whalesalad · 1790112850 · focus · HN ↗

   So hard to take these vibe coded projects seriously. I can feel the LLM selling it to me. I don't want to suggest the code is bad or it doesn't work or doesn't have awesome features... but ai built landers are just so smelly.

   1. yallpendantools · 1790115857 · focus · HN ↗

      We need <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;1742&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;1742&#x2F; but maybe with a different scale category.

      Unlike most other people here, I wouldn&#x27;t really say I&#x27;ve developed a radar for &quot;the vibecoded webpage design&quot;; I thankfully don&#x27;t dabble as much with FE nowadays so if you told me this is default Bootstrap 4 or something, I&#x27;d have believed you. But as I scrolled through the claims, my AI-generated text radar pinged hard and I was caught in a moment of dissonance between the sleek design and the AI-cadenced copy.

      Suddenly, I would&#x27;ve had more confidence if this was a black default font text on a white webpage, served from a .edu domain.

      &gt; The nightly is rebuilt from every push to main and published as a pre-release on GitHub. Unsigned, so the first launch asks you to confirm.

      But with only two commits within the hour this really reads more like a concept of a release plan than an actual regimented&#x2F;automated release process.

      My problem with vibecoded projects was never whether if it was going to work but whether if the failure modes are known. And you can only know the failure modes if you check your work. Hence why, I realized that a history of alpha and beta releases for an opensource project is a signal of quality.

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