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Am I sad for being sad when a post by @simonw gets less than a 100 points? And this is a pretty good one too. But I guess the mods might want to keep things a

Am I sad for being sad when a post by @simonw gets less than a 100 points? And this is a pretty good one too. But I guess the mods might want to keep things a bit balanced which is fair enough.

owebmaster 1y ago
It might be a vibe coding fatigue. Or simonw fatigue. I for one lose any curiosity when I see a vibe coded project/post because I've used LLMs so much that I don't find the generated results impressive or even interesting at all. They all still sucks big time and this won't change with a better prompt or model, there's no breakthrough and compared to 6 months ago they did not get that much better.
- simonw 1y ago
  I think both vibe coding fatigue and simonw fatigue are understandable at this point - though I do think this is one of my best posts in a while, so I was hoping it would hit the homepage. The thing that changed in the past six months is that tool calling in a loop got really good, and a bunch of new tools - like OpenAI Codex and Claude Code - showed up that take full advantage of that. I don't think my "build a scraper from my phone with a single prompt" example from this post would have worked six months ago - the tooling wasn't there yet.
  - owebmaster 1y ago
    > I don't think my "build a scraper from my phone with a single prompt" example from this post would have worked six months ago Even if that is true (which I disagree), isn't it telling that only yourself are impressed by it?
    - simonw 1y ago
      What LLM tool would you have used six months ago to write and execute a custom web scraper from a mobile phone?
      - owebmaster 1y ago
        Not sure about any tool but I use whatsapp + whatsapp web to "write and execute a custom web scraper from a mobile phone" since ChatGPT 4. Currently migrating from whatsapp to bittorrent or nostr. Maybe I should have turned that into an app.

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Am I sad for being sad when a post by @simonw gets less than a 100 points? And this is a pretty good one too. But I guess the mods might want to keep things a

by realty_geek 1y ago

Am I sad for being sad when a post by @simonw gets less than a 100 points? And this is a pretty good one too. But I guess the mods might want to keep things a bit balanced which is fair enough.

owebmaster 1y ago
It might be a vibe coding fatigue. Or simonw fatigue. I for one lose any curiosity when I see a vibe coded project/post because I've used LLMs so much that I don't find the generated results impressive or even interesting at all. They all still sucks big time and this won't change with a better prompt or model, there's no breakthrough and compared to 6 months ago they did not get that much better.
- simonw 1y ago
  I think both vibe coding fatigue and simonw fatigue are understandable at this point - though I do think this is one of my best posts in a while, so I was hoping it would hit the homepage. The thing that changed in the past six months is that tool calling in a loop got really good, and a bunch of new tools - like OpenAI Codex and Claude Code - showed up that take full advantage of that. I don't think my "build a scraper from my phone with a single prompt" example from this post would have worked six months ago - the tooling wasn't there yet.
  - owebmaster 1y ago
    > I don't think my "build a scraper from my phone with a single prompt" example from this post would have worked six months ago Even if that is true (which I disagree), isn't it telling that only yourself are impressed by it?
    - simonw 1y ago
      What LLM tool would you have used six months ago to write and execute a custom web scraper from a mobile phone?
      - owebmaster 1y ago
        Not sure about any tool but I use whatsapp + whatsapp web to "write and execute a custom web scraper from a mobile phone" since ChatGPT 4. Currently migrating from whatsapp to bittorrent or nostr. Maybe I should have turned that into an app.