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As a counterpoint, sloppy projects are being shared all over and it's basically spam at this point. Even /r/rust had to disallow code projects, because there was simply way too much slop being posted all the time.

People share projects because back in the day, a project with hundreds of thousands of lines of code with a cool website and a lot of features were evidence of a lot of hard work, a lot of design decisions and a lot of tradeoffs.

Vibe coding has made that a bad metric. These things no longer mean that any actual work has been dedicated to this project. Anyone could use an afternoon prompting an agent to build the same thing. There is no value in sharing such a thing. At best, it's worthless and at worst, it's borderline a scam, an attempt at disguising a project as something it isn't.

I don't think that's a very nuanced position. LLMs can be an incredibly useful tool for programming. It would be silly not to use such a tool. Yes, it has its shortcomings and it can be used badly by amateurs but in the hands of a professional with good guidance, it can help a lot. Vibe coding doesn't fall under that category though.

Apparently all water molecules on earth are recycled through life roughly every 2 to 5 million years.

Most of that is fair except

UI code is not part of the core business

That I definitely disagree with. UI and UX is important.

Still doesn't make that vibe coded frontend worth anything.

I very much doubt the AI use is confined to the frontend. But I don't see why the frontend is fine to vibe code while other stuff is not?

Using AI as a tool is fine. It can be very useful for programming. But "vibe coding" is using it to an extreme degree where the AI is producing almost the whole thing, with a very small amount of guidance or design from the user. That's what I would object to. Such a thing has very little value, anyone can vibe code such a thing.

Is it elitism to call out vibe coding now? What a world.

Not to mention that their understanding of what tailwind is seems patchy at best, despite claiming that they have 15 years of experience.

If you think choosing tailwind forces you into a certain style of website, you clearly don't know what you're talking about.

And you clearly haven't just used AI for tests. I wonder if the source is closed because you know how obviously AI generated it would look if it was open source?

Has AI been used to create this?

Do you really need to ask? 😅

Closed source and clearly completely vibe coded? Just look at the site, it reeks of AI. Even this post has so much AI-speech.

Yea, no thanks.

I doubt it. The logistics just doesn't really work out. You can go over uneven terrain with a tank and you can probably pack a much bigger gun on a tank than on a mech, seeing as you have better support (treads instead of 2-4 feet).

Also, tanks are sturdy with thick armor with minimal weak spots. A mech with legs is an invitation for an attack. Disable one leg and the mech is not longer a threat, and again, limited weight on those legs means limited armor.

Also, I very much doubt you'd have a human sitting on the inside. Why would you? The human takes up space and could just as easily sit remotely and control the mech wirelessly, like how drones are piloted. Or even better, make the mech autonomous. If we have mech technology, we probably have that technology too.

So yea, nah. It's a rule of cool thing, not an actual realistic thing I would say.

Has anyone tried throwing AI at the problem?

I'm sure they have. But yea, it's a delicate thing and there are no low hanging fruits left. Probably not even any medium hanging fruits either.

And it even manages to take the good stuff from object oriented programming, like RAII and encapsulation and interfaces without getting in the weeds with inheritance!