Comment by runarberg
4 hours ago
This is not a strong use case. I could have made this in Microsoft word when I was 13 years old.
Why on earth would you let an LLM do this when it would take you 10 min to do this in Figma or Inkscape or even just Word
Because it reads the code and generates this in a single pass in 5 minutes.
I haven't read the code.
Why would I do it in a slower, more difficult way for something that's going to be outdated in 2 hours?
I'd be very impressed by anyone who can produce that in Figma or Word in ten minutes.
These are rectangles with some fill and strokes, textboxes lines and arrows. If the text has already been written, and the author has a clear idea of the flow all it takes are some a dozen or so points and click, and setting a couple of fills, then copy pastes, and finally some resizes, selects and moves.
This design is trivial. I admit it would be hard to achieve in Word (or at least for me because I don’t know how to make a diagram in Word any more) but Figma and Inkascape are made to do these things, and have optimized UI for that (personally I would have just used mermaid though).
I think you may have lost your faith in human capabilities just a little bit if you think drawing stuff like this takes any time or effort at all. Compared to designing and architecturing the system, drawing the diagram is trivial. Now I know that my parent did neither but it seems like they vibe-coded the whole thing. I’m sure they will end up with a fun little toy from the whole endeavor they can play with for 2 weeks before abandoning. Maybe the author will even feel bad about the carbon footprint of this whole exercise and buy some carbon offsets to make up for it.
> I’m sure they will end up with a fun little toy from the whole endeavor they can play with for 2 weeks before abandoning.
That's exactly the idea - except it's more like 2 hours before I prototype the next version.
> Maybe the author will even feel bad about the carbon footprint of this whole exercise and buy some carbon offsets to make up for it.
The passive aggressiveness of this is perfectly weighted and admirably phrased.