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Made with care for accuracy. I'm not sure how you can claim this on the footer of every page when you're vibe coding these calculators.

by cube00 9mo ago

sumedh 9mo ago
You can still test it for accuracy?
- Kapura 9mo ago
  ah, the thing every person does when searching for a calculator: verify that it can actually do the math, a thing computers were historically good at from about the 1960s until within the past few years. do you understand how bad it is when you search for software and you cannot trust it to do what you ask of it? it's bad!
- zouhair 9mo ago
  Imagine saying this for medicine.
drw85 9mo ago
Because it's better for marketing. Doesn't matter if it's true.
- falloutx 9mo ago
  what marketing? this must have been done 1000 times just in last month. There is nothing new here. At best its for personal use.
  - g947o 9mo ago
    This. I have so many things to say about the site, but have been withholding them in fear of "posting shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work"
    - vips7L 9mo ago
      Is it a shallow dismissal if the work doesn’t work?
      - g947o 9mo ago
        Whether the dismissal is shallow is in the eye of the moderator. I have seen that before, so I am not going to touch that.
        odshoifsdhfs 9mo ago
        I will say it for you though. If the calculator doesn't work or shows wrong results, then it is shit. I don't care if made with AI, humans or monkeys. `Professional Calculators Free, accurate, and easy-to-use tools for finance, math, and everyday calculations.` So yeah, fuck this. Website looks 99% similar to the many shadcn themes available, has some errors in the calculations and then have a new account propagating 'ohhh look at me, I did all this with Claude/GPT/my aunt's raspberry pi running X, AI is amazing. All Hail AI.` is tiring and I'm just going to assume it is either paid marketing, people invested directly or indirectly in these companies or just sycophant idiots. Also, anyone knows an extension or website where I can just filter submissions if they include AI or LLM or Clause in the title? Getting really tired of this shit.
  - drw85 9mo ago
    If it was for personal use, it wouldn't be on the internet and advertised on sites like this. So it is at least marketed for personal reasons. I don't know why, but it could be for ad revenue, resume filling, ego bolstering. This is the problem with AI music generation too. Many people actually feel like they made something and are proud, despite just having clicked a button after asking for a result. This gives them some kind of feeling of accomplishment, despite having done absolutely nothing for it. The title even says so 'I quit, but AI brought me back'. No, it didn't, you're not back, you just paid someone on Fiver a couple bucks and then used his work to pretend you're back.
leoedin 9mo ago
This is more than just a bad side project - it's borderline malicious. How confident is the OP that every single one of these 60 calculators work all the time, with all edge cases? Because if someone is on your website using your calculator, they are putting trust in you. If it's wrong, it could have downstream impacts on them. I hope every single one has a comprehensive set of tests with good edge cases. But realistically will they? I'm actually pretty pro-AI development. But if you're going to use AI to help develop a website, at least focus on quality rather than quantity. AI makes quantity easy, but quality is still hard. As an aside, the website doesn't even work for me. My clicks don't don anything.
- wickedsight 9mo ago
  > How confident is the OP that every single one of these 60 calculators work all the time, with all edge cases? The compound interest calculator, which is their 'favorite page', already shows an incorrect value in the graph. So my faith in the other calculators isn't great. I also kinda doubt OP's story of them using that page all the time, since it took me about 20 seconds to find this issue.
  - BeetleB 9mo ago
    Can you provide details on the bug?
- pstorm 9mo ago
  I built one of the top 3 results on Google when you search “compound interest calculator” and a dozen other similarly popular calculator pages. The value isn’t the interface, it’s the trust that its calculations are accurate. I can’t tell you how many meetings I had with accountants and finance people to validate all the calculations.
- vagab0nd 9mo ago
  There's a weird conflict going on here and I've experienced it myself. Essentially we hear 2 claims: - You all should build your own software. AI is so good! - You all should use the software I built with AI. It's so good!
qzw 9mo ago
Did you miss the part where they generated tests too?! I mean what do you want, for him to actually review the code or something? That's what kills the love of coding, man.

Made with care for accuracy. I'm not sure how you can claim this on the footer of every page when you're vibe coding these calculators.

by cube00 9mo ago

Made with care for accuracy. I'm not sure how you can claim this on the footer of every page when you're vibe coding these calculators.

sumedh 9mo ago

You can still test it for accuracy?

Kapura 9mo ago
ah, the thing every person does when searching for a calculator: verify that it can actually do the math, a thing computers were historically good at from about the 1960s until within the past few years. do you understand how bad it is when you search for software and you cannot trust it to do what you ask of it? it's bad!
zouhair 9mo ago
Imagine saying this for medicine.

drw85 9mo ago

Because it's better for marketing. Doesn't matter if it's true.

falloutx 9mo ago
what marketing? this must have been done 1000 times just in last month. There is nothing new here. At best its for personal use.
- g947o 9mo ago
  This. I have so many things to say about the site, but have been withholding them in fear of "posting shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work"
  - vips7L 9mo ago
    Is it a shallow dismissal if the work doesn’t work?
    - g947o 9mo ago
      Whether the dismissal is shallow is in the eye of the moderator. I have seen that before, so I am not going to touch that.
      - odshoifsdhfs 9mo ago
        I will say it for you though. If the calculator doesn't work or shows wrong results, then it is shit. I don't care if made with AI, humans or monkeys. `Professional Calculators Free, accurate, and easy-to-use tools for finance, math, and everyday calculations.` So yeah, fuck this. Website looks 99% similar to the many shadcn themes available, has some errors in the calculations and then have a new account propagating 'ohhh look at me, I did all this with Claude/GPT/my aunt's raspberry pi running X, AI is amazing. All Hail AI.` is tiring and I'm just going to assume it is either paid marketing, people invested directly or indirectly in these companies or just sycophant idiots. Also, anyone knows an extension or website where I can just filter submissions if they include AI or LLM or Clause in the title? Getting really tired of this shit.
- drw85 9mo ago
  If it was for personal use, it wouldn't be on the internet and advertised on sites like this. So it is at least marketed for personal reasons. I don't know why, but it could be for ad revenue, resume filling, ego bolstering. This is the problem with AI music generation too. Many people actually feel like they made something and are proud, despite just having clicked a button after asking for a result. This gives them some kind of feeling of accomplishment, despite having done absolutely nothing for it. The title even says so 'I quit, but AI brought me back'. No, it didn't, you're not back, you just paid someone on Fiver a couple bucks and then used his work to pretend you're back.

leoedin 9mo ago

This is more than just a bad side project - it's borderline malicious. How confident is the OP that every single one of these 60 calculators work all the time, with all edge cases? Because if someone is on your website using your calculator, they are putting trust in you. If it's wrong, it could have downstream impacts on them. I hope every single one has a comprehensive set of tests with good edge cases. But realistically will they? I'm actually pretty pro-AI development. But if you're going to use AI to help develop a website, at least focus on quality rather than quantity. AI makes quantity easy, but quality is still hard. As an aside, the website doesn't even work for me. My clicks don't don anything.

wickedsight 9mo ago
> How confident is the OP that every single one of these 60 calculators work all the time, with all edge cases? The compound interest calculator, which is their 'favorite page', already shows an incorrect value in the graph. So my faith in the other calculators isn't great. I also kinda doubt OP's story of them using that page all the time, since it took me about 20 seconds to find this issue.
- BeetleB 9mo ago
  Can you provide details on the bug?
pstorm 9mo ago
I built one of the top 3 results on Google when you search “compound interest calculator” and a dozen other similarly popular calculator pages. The value isn’t the interface, it’s the trust that its calculations are accurate. I can’t tell you how many meetings I had with accountants and finance people to validate all the calculations.
vagab0nd 9mo ago
There's a weird conflict going on here and I've experienced it myself. Essentially we hear 2 claims: - You all should build your own software. AI is so good! - You all should use the software I built with AI. It's so good!

qzw 9mo ago

Did you miss the part where they generated tests too?! I mean what do you want, for him to actually review the code or something? That's what kills the love of coding, man.