Comment by _the_inflator
7 days ago
Someone has to do it:
Please auto-ban any "We gave Claude/Gemini/Grok/OpenAO/Qwen/Mistral/WhateverLLMAI the spec and..."
"and..." resolves to:
- "and now we have this impressive result you won't believe!"
100% of the time this is attention seeking, live debugging - no value at all.
Don't waste people's time. Any sound and reasonable story about results without misusing the public's eye is welcome, for example:
- One year after - 10 hard problems we found - extensive pro/contra comparison with other solutions - maintaining such a AI app for one year
Otherwise: please auto-ban.
I disagree that this submission has no value at all or that it should be auto-banned — there is a difference between thoughtless vibe-coding and spec-driven coding, guarded by tests. It seems from the next thread that this project is hopelessly outmatched by the sheer complexity of taking on something as the Docx spec, but this project has value, and for someone, it may be all that they need.
However, I do agree with your point about live debugging. In light of that, I prefer to treat this submission as a curiosity about current model capabilities, and let the authors keep improving this project if they find it worth their time.
Let's be more respectful to the differing goals of people
Seconded. I could ask the LLM myself and see what it comes up with in 5 minutes, not to mention that all of this was done 1000 times already so I have no interest of doing so.
Also, it's effortless. Not interesting at all if you can't share any insight about the project, because you don't know how it works under the hood and how many architectural problems were solved (or not)
At this point I agree, this is brogramming and its getting boring.
> brogramming
Is it back? I remember 2011 it had a high time in an ad agency I was working back then :-D
The real tragedy is that I can only give a single upvote. This post needs to be added to the HN guidelines, I feel.
We are being overwhelmed with slop. Not even original slop, but carefully specced slop that poorly replicates some existing functionality, but as a SaaS.
This is the 90s equivalent of "Doing $FOO, but on the internet", only it's "Copying $FOO, but with added costs as a SaaS".
That it is AI is just another black mark against it.