Comment by FEELmyAGI
12 hours ago
Thank you for the time commitment based on an internet forum comment. I appreciate greatly the succinct human written README.
Did you investigate prior art before setting out on this endeavor? https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Agithub.com+password+m...
I ask because engineers need to be clever and wise.
Clever means being capable of turning an idea into code, either by writing it or recently by having the vocabulary and eloquence to prompt an LLM.
Wisdom means knowing when and where to apply cleverness, and where not to. like being able to recognize existing sub-components.
> Did you investigate prior art before setting out on this endeavor
Lol no, I had no idea there was any other password managers! Thanks for the google search link! I didn't know search engines existed either!
> Wisdom means knowing when and where to apply cleverness, and where not to. like being able to recognize existing sub-components.
It says literally in the README that part of this is an exercise in seeing what an LLM can do. I am in no way suggesting anyone use this (because there's a bazillion other password managers already) nor would I even have made this public if you hadn't baited me into doing it.
The fact that there's a literal sea of password managers out there is why I'm curious enough to think "maybe a one that I get to design myself, written to exactly my tastes and my tastes alone could be feasible", and that's what this exercise is about. It literally took me less time to vibe-code what I have right now, than to pour through the sea of options that already exist to decide which one I should try. And having it be mine at the end means that I can implement my pet features the way I want, without having to worry one bit about fighting with upstream maintainers. It's also just fun. I thoroughly enjoy the process of thinking about the design and iterating on it.
sooo ...
> it actually did a good job.
applies when there is a sea of "prior art" on the topic requested. And that request (prompt) is actually framed/worded properly to match that prior art.
Which may be perfect if the target is reduceable to prior-art. Re-use, Mix-and-match, from opensource or stackoverflow, into my-own-flavour-hot-water, finally!
No, this is not sarcasm. i hate to (catch myself a month later) reinventing hot-water. Let something else do it.
The question that stays with me is, How to keep the brain-bits needed for that inventing / making new stuff , alive and kicking.. because they will definitely deteriorate towards zero or even negative. Should we reinvent each 10th thing? just for the mental-gym-nastics?