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I replaced my todo list tracker with a vibe coded one, while waiting for things to happen in the middle of a trial. We're living in the future.
by rayiner 2mo ago
I replaced my todo list tracker with a vibe coded one, while waiting for things to happen in the middle of a trial. We're living in the future.
- tptacek 2mo agoIt's fucking weird and I think we're not talking about it enough.
- keeda 2mo agoHere’s my theory for why this is happening, from the thread the other day on not being excited about technology anymore: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49350223 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49350223
- rayiner 2mo agoI got through a trial using a document manager I vibe coded in two days. No crashes, no runaway memory usage with several gigs of PDFs. All my depo transcripts, expert reports, etc, indexed, with a terminal window integrated so i can ask Grok to “pull up the testimony on the first day when that guy said that thing.” The app has an API so the AI can directly control what documents i’m looking at and jump me to the right places. All I had to do was tell Claude to “expose all the document viewing functionality through applescript,” then tell Grok to “read the applescript dictionary and write yourself a skill.” It’s like ye olde times when we had overqualified efficient paralegals who could do stuff like that.
- sea-gold 2mo agoIs the end-app anything worth open sourcing?
- latexr 2mo agoI hope that’s sarcasm or that I’m misunderstanding what you mean. Have you looked at the front-page of HN? At the new submissions? Social media? Newspapers? YouTube videos? It’s bonkers to me anyone could claim with any degree of seriousness that we’re not talking about this enough. We’re talking about it too much.
- tptacek 2mo agoI don't know what to tell you. I bounce off 80% of the AI stories on the front page too, and I have the same frustration. But the change that's happening now to our field is profound. It sucks that the conversation we're having on HN is a debate between AI maximalists and the "clanker" people, rather than e.g. reconsidering Raskin's Humane Interface in light of what we can see computers will be like in 10 years.
- tuesdaynight 2mo agoYou are at a better position to start these debates about HCI and other things, and you should do it. Most people are financially tied to their fields. I believe you are at a different stage of your career, so you are in a position to think about it without worrying about putting food on the table. I believe that automation of work being something so scary is a very sad thing, but it is how our current system works.