Comment by Workaccount2

1 day ago

>AI isn't good enough yet to generate the same quality of software as human engineers

The software I have vibecoded for myself totally obliterates anything available on the market. Imagine a program that operates without any lag or hicupps. Opens and runs instantly. A program that can run without an internet connection, without making an account, without somehow being 12GB in size, without totally unintuitive UI, without having to pay $20/mo for static capabilities, without persistent bugs that are ignored for years, without any ability to customize anything.

I know you are incredulous reading this is, but hear me out

Bespoke narrow scope custom software is incredibly powerful, and well within the wheelhouse of LLMs. Modern software is written to be the 110-tool swiss army knife feature pack to capture as large of an audience as possible. But if I am just using 3 of those tools, an LLM can write a piece of software that is better for me in every single way. And that's exactly what my experience has been so far, and exactly the direction I see software moving in the future.

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DrillShopper  1 day ago

I'll believe it when I see it with my own eyes, otherwise these words read more like sales copy than technological discovery.

  • Workaccount2  1 day ago

    If you haven't seen an LLM output a functional 2K or even 5K LOC program at this point, you probably never will.

    The problem space of average people problems that can be addressed with <5K LOC is massive. The only real barrier is having to go through an IDE, but that will almost certainly be solved in the near future, it already sort of is with Canvas features.