5 ms·

Shopify CEO vibe codes an MRI viewer

16 points by nkko 9mo ago

michaelmcdonald 9mo ago
The very first line had me interested: > My annual MRI scan Not sure if he has an underlying health condition that necessitates an MRI scan yearly or if this is part of his preventative medical regiment (much like an annual physical).
- nkko 9mo ago
  Annual full body MRI has become a trend. Not sure who first started promoting it, probably Peter Attia.
  - potamic 9mo ago
    I thought radiologists need to know what to look for in order to diagnose something? Do they brute force every potential condition in the body that can be detected with an MRI?
    - palmotea 9mo ago
      > I thought radiologists need to know what to look for in order to diagnose something? Do they brute force every potential condition in the body that can be detected with an MRI? No, when they read a scan, they're supposed to read everything visible for every problem. Think of it this way: if you break your leg and they take an MRI, do you want the radiologist to miss a tumor because he was focused on the break?
      - potamic 9mo ago
        About how many "parameters" do they evaluate roughly for a full body scan? And is one typically qualified to evaluate across the entire body or do they specialize in different areas of the body?
        palmotea 9mo ago
        I don't know, but I've heard from doctors (many times, sometimes quite forcefully) that it's a radiologist's job to call out all abnormalities on the full image they get, and the reasoning makes sense. I suppose a full body MRI would be very expensive and take a lot of time to read.
    - bulbar 9mo ago
      Exactly, because an MRI is not a simple "shows problems" machine. It provides a very simplified model of certain aspects of the state of the body. We very often can't know if parts of that state are a health problem or not. To my knowledge, studies have not shown any benefits of regular full body MRI's. You might find a problem, or you might find a non-problem and in the process of fixing it (aka operation / medication) you create a problem. Those two effects seem to balance out each other on average.
- blitzar 9mo ago
  > an underlying health condition that necessitates an MRI scan yearly Elevated piles of money
fny 9mo ago
Claude is likely just using a hand-written package[0] that already does this. If not it's almost certainly plagiarized. [0]: https://ivmartel.github.io/dwv/ https://ivmartel.github.io/dwv/
- mbirth 9mo ago
  You can try it yourself - apparently it was just this[0] single prompt: >> This is a USB Stick of my MRI. Find all reports, find all images, use imagemagick to convert them into something useful, and get everything into a structured directory in the ./output folder that's worth retaining. Then, make an index.html that's a full exploration tool for the results. Use /frontend-skills and /generate-image skills if necessary. > /frontend-skills you can find in the plugin marketplace, generate-image is just a small skill that allows the model to use nanobanana-pro. It used it for some diagrams. [0]: https://x.com/tobi/status/2010442346618323059 https://x.com/tobi/status/2010442346618323059
quarry_quirk 9mo ago
That bikini tweet? Really? Mocking out of nowhere the death and subsequent sexualization of Renee Nicole Good on X … despicable https://x.com/grok/status/2009147824554799156 https://x.com/grok/status/2009147824554799156
- angoragoats 9mo ago
  Tobias Lutke is complicit in supporting non-consensual pornography and CSAM. So is YC and its leaders, by allowing (or being indifferent to) links to a pro-CSAM website.
- palmotea 9mo ago
  > That bikini tweet? Really? Mocking out of nowhere the death and subsequent sexualization of Renee Nicole Good on X … despicable > https://x.com/grok/status/2009147824554799156 https://x.com/grok/status/2009147824554799156 It seems like they're covering it up, all I see at that link (as a non-Twitter user) is: > I generated an AI image altering a photo of Renee Good, killed in the January 7, 2026, Minneapolis ICE shooting, by placing her in a bikini per a user request. This used sensitive content unintentionally. That "this used sensitive content unintentionally" comment is obviously a lie. By its own description, a user requested it. It was all intentional, all the way down.
  - allanmacgregor 9mo ago
    No, still there. https://x.com/tobi/status/2010533947097407510?s=20 https://x.com/tobi/status/2010533947097407510?s=20 just wasn't linked properly you can see the grok response on his feed aswell
angoragoats 9mo ago
[flagged]
- lm28469 9mo ago
  Coming with a seemingly infinite wall of comments from AI balls garglers, we truly live in a cursed timeline
throwaway89201 9mo ago
"Shopify CEO doesn't understand how to install a DICOM viewer application which is widely available and open source for any platform [1], so decides to let Claude Code plagiarize one / use widely available open source DICOM libraries." [1] https://alternativeto.net/software/horos/?license=opensource https://alternativeto.net/software/horos/?license=opensource
- delichon 9mo ago
  The plagiarism of open source accusation is interesting. If you didn't know you are using open source code, is it plagiarism not to acknowledge it? What if you have enough knowledge of how LLMs work that you should have known? Does it help any to include an acknowledgement that you probably used some open source code but don't know which? I'd parse it the same way as for natural intelligence. If I ask Bob how to do it, and he tells me from what he learned from open source, neither of us are plagiarizing open source.
  - palmotea 9mo ago
    Are you passing off work you didn't do as your own? If so, it's plagiarism. Doesn't matter exactly where the work came from or how it was laundered, since you know you didn't do it. Simple as that.
    - delichon 9mo ago
      Tobi Lutke very explicitly did not pass off the work as his own. He attributed it to Claude. Does the fact that he didn't know about and include all of Claude's sources make it plagiarism? Would he have had the same obligation if he learned it from Bob?
      - palmotea 9mo ago
        > Tobi Lutke very explicitly did not pass off the work as his own. He attributed it to Claude. Does the fact that he didn't know about and include all of Claude's sources make it plagiarism? Yes. The OP wrote: >>>> so decides to let Claude Code plagiarize one Read it carefully: Claude Code is the actor that's doing the plagiarizing. What Tobias Lutke is doing is gushing about plagiarism like it's original work. It's like if I gave you a copy of To Kill a Mockingbird, but with my name as the author, and you then went around telling everyone how impressive of a writer I am.

16 points by nkko 9mo ago

The very first line had me interested: > My annual MRI scan Not sure if he has an underlying health condition that necessitates an MRI scan yearly or if this is part of his preventative medical regiment (much like an annual physical).

nkko 9mo ago
Annual full body MRI has become a trend. Not sure who first started promoting it, probably Peter Attia.
- potamic 9mo ago
  I thought radiologists need to know what to look for in order to diagnose something? Do they brute force every potential condition in the body that can be detected with an MRI?
  - palmotea 9mo ago
    > I thought radiologists need to know what to look for in order to diagnose something? Do they brute force every potential condition in the body that can be detected with an MRI? No, when they read a scan, they're supposed to read everything visible for every problem. Think of it this way: if you break your leg and they take an MRI, do you want the radiologist to miss a tumor because he was focused on the break?
    - potamic 9mo ago
      About how many "parameters" do they evaluate roughly for a full body scan? And is one typically qualified to evaluate across the entire body or do they specialize in different areas of the body?
      - palmotea 9mo ago
        I don't know, but I've heard from doctors (many times, sometimes quite forcefully) that it's a radiologist's job to call out all abnormalities on the full image they get, and the reasoning makes sense. I suppose a full body MRI would be very expensive and take a lot of time to read.
  - bulbar 9mo ago
    Exactly, because an MRI is not a simple "shows problems" machine. It provides a very simplified model of certain aspects of the state of the body. We very often can't know if parts of that state are a health problem or not. To my knowledge, studies have not shown any benefits of regular full body MRI's. You might find a problem, or you might find a non-problem and in the process of fixing it (aka operation / medication) you create a problem. Those two effects seem to balance out each other on average.
blitzar 9mo ago
> an underlying health condition that necessitates an MRI scan yearly Elevated piles of money

fny 9mo ago

Claude is likely just using a hand-written package[0] that already does this. If not it's almost certainly plagiarized. [0]: https://ivmartel.github.io/dwv/ https://ivmartel.github.io/dwv/

mbirth 9mo ago
You can try it yourself - apparently it was just this[0] single prompt: >> This is a USB Stick of my MRI. Find all reports, find all images, use imagemagick to convert them into something useful, and get everything into a structured directory in the ./output folder that's worth retaining. Then, make an index.html that's a full exploration tool for the results. Use /frontend-skills and /generate-image skills if necessary. > /frontend-skills you can find in the plugin marketplace, generate-image is just a small skill that allows the model to use nanobanana-pro. It used it for some diagrams. [0]: https://x.com/tobi/status/2010442346618323059 https://x.com/tobi/status/2010442346618323059

quarry_quirk 9mo ago

That bikini tweet? Really? Mocking out of nowhere the death and subsequent sexualization of Renee Nicole Good on X … despicable https://x.com/grok/status/2009147824554799156 https://x.com/grok/status/2009147824554799156

angoragoats 9mo ago
Tobias Lutke is complicit in supporting non-consensual pornography and CSAM. So is YC and its leaders, by allowing (or being indifferent to) links to a pro-CSAM website.
palmotea 9mo ago
> That bikini tweet? Really? Mocking out of nowhere the death and subsequent sexualization of Renee Nicole Good on X … despicable > https://x.com/grok/status/2009147824554799156 https://x.com/grok/status/2009147824554799156 It seems like they're covering it up, all I see at that link (as a non-Twitter user) is: > I generated an AI image altering a photo of Renee Good, killed in the January 7, 2026, Minneapolis ICE shooting, by placing her in a bikini per a user request. This used sensitive content unintentionally. That "this used sensitive content unintentionally" comment is obviously a lie. By its own description, a user requested it. It was all intentional, all the way down.
- allanmacgregor 9mo ago
  No, still there. https://x.com/tobi/status/2010533947097407510?s=20 https://x.com/tobi/status/2010533947097407510?s=20 just wasn't linked properly you can see the grok response on his feed aswell

angoragoats 9mo ago

[flagged]

lm28469 9mo ago
Coming with a seemingly infinite wall of comments from AI balls garglers, we truly live in a cursed timeline

throwaway89201 9mo ago

"Shopify CEO doesn't understand how to install a DICOM viewer application which is widely available and open source for any platform [1], so decides to let Claude Code plagiarize one / use widely available open source DICOM libraries." [1] https://alternativeto.net/software/horos/?license=opensource https://alternativeto.net/software/horos/?license=opensource

delichon 9mo ago
The plagiarism of open source accusation is interesting. If you didn't know you are using open source code, is it plagiarism not to acknowledge it? What if you have enough knowledge of how LLMs work that you should have known? Does it help any to include an acknowledgement that you probably used some open source code but don't know which? I'd parse it the same way as for natural intelligence. If I ask Bob how to do it, and he tells me from what he learned from open source, neither of us are plagiarizing open source.
- palmotea 9mo ago
  Are you passing off work you didn't do as your own? If so, it's plagiarism. Doesn't matter exactly where the work came from or how it was laundered, since you know you didn't do it. Simple as that.
  - delichon 9mo ago
    Tobi Lutke very explicitly did not pass off the work as his own. He attributed it to Claude. Does the fact that he didn't know about and include all of Claude's sources make it plagiarism? Would he have had the same obligation if he learned it from Bob?
    - palmotea 9mo ago
      > Tobi Lutke very explicitly did not pass off the work as his own. He attributed it to Claude. Does the fact that he didn't know about and include all of Claude's sources make it plagiarism? Yes. The OP wrote: >>>> so decides to let Claude Code plagiarize one Read it carefully: Claude Code is the actor that's doing the plagiarizing. What Tobias Lutke is doing is gushing about plagiarism like it's original work. It's like if I gave you a copy of To Kill a Mockingbird, but with my name as the author, and you then went around telling everyone how impressive of a writer I am.