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1. postalcoder · 1791122276 · focus · HN ↗

   Since this is for the mac you really should be using apple's vision framework for OCR. It smokes tesseract in both speed and accuracy.

   Edit: I'm curious which LLM was used to generate the code. I fed the title of your post to claude/deepseek/qwen/codex asking to recommend a stack for this project, expecting to frown thinking that they still recommend tesseract. However, I found that they all recommend apple's vision framework. In fact the latest model to recommend Tesseract is gpt-4.1.

   1. daveguy · 1791124991 · focus · HN ↗

      nullsanity got downvoted into oblivion, but they are correct. This is one of the many reasons why vibe coding produces worse software. The code that is generated and the best practice recommendations are completely separate. They both come from a distribution of "most common", and best practice is rarely common. Especially when a practice is first established, or in a specific niche.

      1. spiderfarmer · 1791125133 · focus · HN ↗

         On the flipside, it also leads to better software.
      2. thih9 · 1791126366 · focus · HN ↗

         Unless you are referencing some existing non vibe coded app, complaints the project being vibe coded may be just too generic at this point.

         A hand coded electron project would have a discussion about electron vs native. Relevant in general but off topic in the context of this particular app.

      3. xp84 · 1791126416 · focus · HN ↗

         Isn’t that why you use a plan mode? Or better, use a plan mode, revise and critique the plan, and then let it proceed to build?
      4. baxtr · 1791127810 · focus · HN ↗

         Maybe the real question is: who cares?

         What’s the downside risk of having "worse software" when you’re just ideating and putting things out there to see how people like it.

         1. Someone · 1791138107 · focus · HN ↗

            Your idea can be great, but if the implementing is bad, people still may not like it, and you’ll never know that’s the cause.

            1. daveguy · 1791138837 · focus · HN ↗

               And manager types in software still haven't figured out that prototypes should not be the final product. In engineering it's common knowledge and only rarely do you take a proof of concept directly to production.
            2. TeMPOraL · 1791152033 · focus · HN ↗

               Worst case:

               - release vibe coded tool

               - on HN, someone says, d'oh, you should be using Y, not X

               - give that comment to your LLM

               - LLM: "The commenter on Hacker News is absolutely right, my mistake. I can easily replace X with Y if you want"

               - release a new, better version of vibe coded tool

               Iteration, in one afternoon.

      5. losteric · 1791137172 · focus · HN ↗

         idk about that. The big labs and their data providers are spending millions of dollars building up expert datasets. I was offered $120/hr to critique outputs and provide my own designs. Thats clean and high quality data, not the average internet word distribution
      6. WokeUp420 · 1791141935 · focus · HN ↗

         Kind of like "history is written by the victors"

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