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I think we're witnessing the evolution of the one-liner. Most of these have extremely limited scope, and are probably not going to be invested in long term as
by anotherhue 1y ago
I think we're witnessing the evolution of the one-liner.
Most of these have extremely limited scope, and are probably not going to be invested in long term as software requires, they're throwaway.
Which is exactly what horrible find to xargs to inline perl was.
I personally feel less annoyed by this vibe mania when I think of them this way.
Note: two of them seem at face value to be equivalent to gpg or imagemagick CLI calls but hyper (over IMO) specialised.
- Disposal8433 1y agoI had the same reaction. It's a big stretch to call a "tool" 500 lines of JS that could be replaced with a few Bash calls, a regexp, or a small self-contained Python+UV script. Even worse when it's limited in functionality. We failed at creating automation tools for the users (even if Apple tried that with AppleScript or Automator), but vibe coding throwaway scripts is not the answer.
- simonw 1y agoI can't run a few bash calls or a Python+UV script in Mobile Safari on my phone. That's very much a goal of most of these as well. I actually have a separate collection of vibe-coded UV+Python scripts on that site here: https://tools.simonwillison.net/python/ https://tools.simonwillison.net/python/