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I am going to give you my two cents on why this is the case, at least for me. The reason I am in these spaces where people can posts things like "I created X..
by WhyohWhy001 6d ago
I am going to give you my two cents on why this is the case, at least for me.
The reason I am in these spaces where people can posts things like "I created X..." or "I built X...", is because I want to learn from people that are much better engineers than I am.
I normally would skip a post of the kind "I built X", X being something simple that I am familiar with, because if I can do that too, there is not much value in spending my time going through an explanation on how you built it.
However, when the X you built is something really cool that I have not the slightest idea of how to build myself, I will take the time to explore your ideas, your code, your comments, and learn from you.
Clearly, up until very recently, I thought, if you built something really cool that I would not know where to even start with, you had something (knowledge, experience) that I lacked and I could learn from. You took the time to explain to others how you came up with that X, and I will take the time to ingest it and learn from it. I have learnt to be really appreciative of people that took the time to show others the things they make, and their thought process, insights, etc...
Please note that up until here, the WHAT you built is irrelevant. I don't care if it is a weather station you built in a makerspace, a new language compiler I will never use or a rendering engine for some kind of nonsense. What adds me value is not the what, but the how you made it. That is where my potential learnings are.
Fast forward to now, if what you did was spend a couple of hundred bucks prompting an LLM and generated a convoluted codebase that it is a royal Paine to look at as it does not really follow clear train of thought, and readme with Claude and uploaded it to GitHub to show off, I don't think I have much to learn from you.
I can also do that. The fact that you did that with a specific WHAT that didn't occur to me, is a curiosity at best. So now it is on me, to actually open the GitHub repo, realise that probably you have absolutely no idea how this even works either because it is a 100% intent-based generated codebase, be disappointed, and move on to the next post.
After going through that cycle 75 times a day, yes, I am a bit tired of vibe slop, even if the outcome X is good.
5 years ago, a post like this, would truly have been a work of love over months of someone's effort, and we could have learnt tons from the OP. Now, I am afraid that is not case. Now my thinking is, yep, nice project dude. Can't be bothered to open it. If I ever need one of this, I'll prompt it myself into existence, and I will learn probably very little in that process. Probably like you did too.