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> my own https://tools.simonwillison.net/colophon https://tools.simonwillison.net/colophon collection has grown to over 120 What in the wooberjabbery is this e

> my own https://tools.simonwillison.net/colophon https://tools.simonwillison.net/colophon collection has grown to over 120 What in the wooberjabbery is this even. List of single-commit LLM generated stuff. Vibe coded shovelware like animated-rainbow-border [1] or unix-timestamp [2]. Calling these tools seems to be overstating it. 1: https://gist.github.com/simonw/2e56ee84e7321592f79ceaed2e81b0a9 https://gist.github.com/simonw/2e56ee84e7321592f79ceaed2e81b... 2: https://gist.github.com/simonw/8c04788c5e4db11f6324ef5962127ecb#unix-timestamp-converter https://gist.github.com/simonw/8c04788c5e4db11f6324ef5962127...

simonw 1y ago
Cool right? It's my playground for vibe coded apps, except I started it nearly a year before the term "vibe coding" was introduced. I wrote more about it here: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/21/claude-artifacts/ https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/21/claude-artifacts/ - and a lot of them have explanations in posts under my tools tag: https://simonwillison.net/tags/tools/ https://simonwillison.net/tags/tools/ It might also be the largest collection of published chat transcripts for this kind of usage from a single person - though that's not hard since most people don't publish their prompts. Building little things like this is really effective way of gaining experience using prompts to get useful code results out of LLMs.
- bgwalter 1y ago
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  - simonw 1y ago
    I've been using LLM-assistance for my larger open source projects - https://github.com/simonw/datasette https://github.com/simonw/datasette https://github.com/simonw/llm https://github.com/simonw/llm and https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils - for a couple of years now. Also literally hundreds of smaller plugins and libraries and CLI tools, see https://github.com/simonw?tab=repositories https://github.com/simonw?tab=repositories (now at 880 repos, though a few dozen of those are scrapers and shouldn't count) and https://pypi.org/user/simonw/ https://pypi.org/user/simonw/ (340 published packages). Unlike my tools.simonwillison.net stuff the vast majority of those products are covered by automated tests and usually have comprehensive documentation too. What do you mean by my script?
- 0points 1y ago
  > Cool right? 100s of single commit AI generated trash in the likes of "make the css background blue". On display. Like it's something. You can't be serious.
- kiitos 1y ago
  what on earth? these are absolutely trivial, toy example programs. they've got nothing to do with anything that anyone is meaningfully talking about when they talk about using LLMs for coding stuff. is this kind of stuff what you're referring to when you comment on using LLMs for programming? clone, i dunno, https://github.com/minio/minio https://github.com/minio/minio, and ask the LLM to implement a non-trivial feature -- this is what everyone else is talking about! not "implement a YAML to JSON converter in the browser"

simonw 1y ago

Cool right? It's my playground for vibe coded apps, except I started it nearly a year before the term "vibe coding" was introduced. I wrote more about it here: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/21/claude-artifacts/ https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/21/claude-artifacts/ - and a lot of them have explanations in posts under my tools tag: https://simonwillison.net/tags/tools/ https://simonwillison.net/tags/tools/ It might also be the largest collection of published chat transcripts for this kind of usage from a single person - though that's not hard since most people don't publish their prompts. Building little things like this is really effective way of gaining experience using prompts to get useful code results out of LLMs.

bgwalter 1y ago
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- simonw 1y ago
  I've been using LLM-assistance for my larger open source projects - https://github.com/simonw/datasette https://github.com/simonw/datasette https://github.com/simonw/llm https://github.com/simonw/llm and https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils - for a couple of years now. Also literally hundreds of smaller plugins and libraries and CLI tools, see https://github.com/simonw?tab=repositories https://github.com/simonw?tab=repositories (now at 880 repos, though a few dozen of those are scrapers and shouldn't count) and https://pypi.org/user/simonw/ https://pypi.org/user/simonw/ (340 published packages). Unlike my tools.simonwillison.net stuff the vast majority of those products are covered by automated tests and usually have comprehensive documentation too. What do you mean by my script?
0points 1y ago
> Cool right? 100s of single commit AI generated trash in the likes of "make the css background blue". On display. Like it's something. You can't be serious.
kiitos 1y ago
what on earth? these are absolutely trivial, toy example programs. they've got nothing to do with anything that anyone is meaningfully talking about when they talk about using LLMs for coding stuff. is this kind of stuff what you're referring to when you comment on using LLMs for programming? clone, i dunno, https://github.com/minio/minio https://github.com/minio/minio, and ask the LLM to implement a non-trivial feature -- this is what everyone else is talking about! not "implement a YAML to JSON converter in the browser"