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JermCAD: Browser-Based CAD Software

62 points by azhenley 1y ago

lloydatkinson 1y ago
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- muldvarp 1y ago
  Was there? Software has always been a "speed of delivery over correctness" discipline. LLMs will just crank that up to 11.
- adastra22 1y ago
  On the other hand, this is an example of a new category of tools: things made by individuals scratching an itch, that wouldn't have been made otherwise because the barrier to entry was too high. There will always be a need for high quality human-reviewed software, but I think we should celebrate this too.
  - Mountain_Skies 1y ago
    Scratching an itch with a rusty nail risks tetanus.
    - isolatedsystem 1y ago
      You'd be surprised. I have to run RHEL at work, with Gnome. No Albert, no Wofi, no Rofi. Fuck all in the repositories. For months I missed typing Alt + Space, typing filename, hitting enter and having it open. One evening with Claude. Done. Obviously it's not perfect, but man what an amazing thing to be able to do. I'm not even a software developer. LLMs are the new Excel.
  - foobarian 1y ago
    This category of projects reminds me of how the aliens in Niven's "Mote in God's Eye" used to work, making instant bespoke things as they went along.
- swiftcoder 1y ago
  > There was a time people took pride in writing high quality software. And other people have always churned out low-quality software that solves a problem they have in a specific way. This is just sort of accelerating
- Mtinie 1y ago
  From my viewpoint you are conflating software quality with ambition. All software develops iteratively. Tools now celebrated for quality and consistency (commercial and OSS alike) shipped from states where they were neither. Jerm-CAD existing gives it a shot at improvement. The alternative is it doesn’t exist.
bschwindHN 1y ago
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- renegat0x0 1y ago
  - user reports a bug - dev asks vibes for help - llm rewrites half of the files - it does seem to fix the bug - 50 more bugs enter the chat
- seemaze 1y ago
  I know, YAML has that effect on me too!
tomhow 1y ago
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45823565 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45823565.

62 points by azhenley 1y ago

lloydatkinson 1y ago

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muldvarp 1y ago
Was there? Software has always been a "speed of delivery over correctness" discipline. LLMs will just crank that up to 11.
adastra22 1y ago
On the other hand, this is an example of a new category of tools: things made by individuals scratching an itch, that wouldn't have been made otherwise because the barrier to entry was too high. There will always be a need for high quality human-reviewed software, but I think we should celebrate this too.
- Mountain_Skies 1y ago
  Scratching an itch with a rusty nail risks tetanus.
  - isolatedsystem 1y ago
    You'd be surprised. I have to run RHEL at work, with Gnome. No Albert, no Wofi, no Rofi. Fuck all in the repositories. For months I missed typing Alt + Space, typing filename, hitting enter and having it open. One evening with Claude. Done. Obviously it's not perfect, but man what an amazing thing to be able to do. I'm not even a software developer. LLMs are the new Excel.
- foobarian 1y ago
  This category of projects reminds me of how the aliens in Niven's "Mote in God's Eye" used to work, making instant bespoke things as they went along.
swiftcoder 1y ago
> There was a time people took pride in writing high quality software. And other people have always churned out low-quality software that solves a problem they have in a specific way. This is just sort of accelerating
Mtinie 1y ago
From my viewpoint you are conflating software quality with ambition. All software develops iteratively. Tools now celebrated for quality and consistency (commercial and OSS alike) shipped from states where they were neither. Jerm-CAD existing gives it a shot at improvement. The alternative is it doesn’t exist.

bschwindHN 1y ago

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renegat0x0 1y ago
- user reports a bug - dev asks vibes for help - llm rewrites half of the files - it does seem to fix the bug - 50 more bugs enter the chat
seemaze 1y ago
I know, YAML has that effect on me too!

tomhow 1y ago

Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45823565 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45823565.