Comment by akmarinov

14 days ago

Peter Steinberger is a well respected developer that started out in the mobile dev community. He founded a company, then made an exit and is set for money, so he just does things for fun.

Yes, he AI generated all of it, go through his articles at https://steipete.me/ to see how he does it, it’s definitely not “vibe coding”, he does make sure that what’s being output is solid.

He was one of the people in the top charts of using Claude Code a year back, which brought around the limits we know today.

He also hosts Claude Code anonymous meetups all over the world.

He’s overall a passionate developer that cares about the thing he’s building.

Projects should be judged on their intrinsic merits and not merely be based on the social media follow count of the authors

  • GP is directly discussing the maintainer your comment has nothing to do with the topic discussed...

    • What on earth are you talking about?

      The question is "why do people need fainting couches for this project and why are they pretending like 3 year old features of apis that already exist in thousands of projects are brand new innovations exclusive to this?"

      The answer is: "the author is celebrity and some people are delusional screaming fanboys"

      My response is: "that's bullshit. let's be adults"

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Being a well respected dev and being active on Twitter are contradictory

  • Like it or not, it's where most people are

    • Most whom? If we're talking about any kind of people, then no, there are far bigger Social networks than eX-Twitter. And if we are just talking about tech-people, it's disputable, but at least we could talk about the quality discussions there.

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How is he "well respected", based on what metric? Amount of vibe coded slop put out into the ecosystem?

He sounds like someone who has just vibe coded shit until something stuck to the wall. I also find it hard to respect people who create things which are 99-100% coded by an LLM, with zero technical merit or skill. Again, just creating slop until something goes viral.

As far as I can see Clawdbot is just more AI-slop. Anyone can create the same thing (and many have created similar) over a weekend. It's riddled with bugs, security holes, and it's a disaster waiting to happen basically.

  • Just the opposite, he has over 15 years of experience of providing third party frameworks for the iOS community, used in thousands of apps. He founded PSPDFKit, a library for working with PDFs and managed to make an exit of the company worth $100 million

    He's written up hundreds of articles on different topics in the community and is very much a skilled developer, with tons of technical merit.

    Now you come along with your small mind and a hard on for AI-hate and all you can comprehend is that nothing can challenge your world view so you reach out and attack what you don't understand. That just defines you as ignorant.