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• brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Oh yeah… yeah, it doesn’t seem like it’s client/server or anything. It’s just a CAD program?

  I dunno if it fits the “vibe coded” label though, as it appears to work well. I tend to apply that to projects where the devs clearly have no idea what they’re doing (and end up with something really bloated and janky, yet hyped a ton).

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  • finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    To quote from another thread about this program:

    Claude directly has over 1100000 lines of direct code contribution. It has pretty much the same amount of code committed directly as the creator has.

    His entire coding history before Claude consisted of changing readmes or searching and replacing project name text or modifying a dead link to his own link.

    Suddenly in 4 months, without ever producing actual code before, he becomes a very competent coder enough to tackle mCAD, a notoriously difficult coding task that takes many many years with teams to make meaningful progress on?

    That is vibe coding.

    And his co-contributer “gianlucafiore” is exactly the same story. Has literally only made issues until LLM coding got released and then late 2025 (December) switched to making commits that he badly copied from an LLM such that some of the commits are literally one full line (as direct in-file working of the LLM wasn’t as accessible then)

    That is vibe coding.

    So the top 3 contributes are

    1. An LLM
    2. Someone that only has committed any code via an LLM
    3. Someone who has only made issues before beginning with an LLM and submits clearly generated code

    There is likely no human-made code in the entire project besides changing a couple links.

    https://lemmy.ml/comment/27294909

    If a program written almost entirely by Claude under somebody who has not previously demonstrated any actual competency in this domain isn’t vibe coding, I really don’t know what is.

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    • jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      demonstrated any actual competency in this domain

      It may be that he/they have significant competency in this domain, just not publically or under this name/pseudonym.

      I’ve personally made contributions under pseudonyms just to avoid employer paperwork/approvals, for projects that I’d rather not have my real name attached to, and for sharing in potentially hostile communities.

      I’ve also developed software internal to companies that has never been released publicly.

      In short … he doesn’t need to prove his prior credentials to you, me, or anyone. He may have some, he may not.

      We can legitimately critique what he/they have done in this project all we like though.

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      • finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        You’re right that absence of evidence of is not evidence of absence, but when the only thing we know about this person is their commit history on this account, we can’t really make any positive assumptions beyond the story that data tells.

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    • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah, in that case it’s sus.

      Does it actually work, though?

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      • finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        If I read the page correctly, the project was launched in the last couple months. I’m not seeing many reviews or demonstrations online yet, but I also didn’t look very hard.

        I personally don’t have any interest in mostly vibe-coded projects and won’t be trying it.

        That said, I’d be curious to hear from anyone who has tried it. It’s certainly welcome to see open-source competitors popping up for AEC software.

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• irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  or care about the community rules

  Where did he say this? He said he didn’t read the rules. Also, when I explained the rules (tho in error), where to find them, and decode them, instead of just piling on like everyone else, when I came back, OP had added the tag. That doesn’t seem like he didn’t ‘care about the community rules’. OP doesn’t seem to be fluent in English, and stated such. Yes, the rules are posted and are there for proper formatting of threads. So imagine yourself visiting a selfhosting site that’s written in Mandarin. ffs!

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  • finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Elsewhere in this thread, I can’t seem to get the link on my phone:

    Rulues was not readed, but i do know most people do not want AI code. So i did know what the issue you point just from your comment

    I will not hold post about great FOSS project becuse of AI code.

    Thanks.

    They admitted that they chose not to read the community rules and appear to have assumed that they were not allowed to post about AI projects, yet chose to post anyway.

    Also, translation tools are widely available on the Internet to the extent that they’re built into most browsers at this point. While they’re obviously not as good as actually being fluent, they work fine for getting the point across. I’ve used them to read non-English sites with success, even if I maybe missed some of the subtleties of the original text.

    It would be far less frustrating if they had at least attempted to read the rules and made a mistake in trying to follow them.

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    • irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      All I’m advocating here is a little common courtesy, you know? Rule 1 if we’re going to talk about rules. Selfhosters are always talking about how we need more people to sever the umbilical cord of Big Data and get into selfhosting, then act like a bunch of elitist snobs. It really is the black eye in the self hosting community.

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      • finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I get what you’re saying and agree with you that there tends to be an elitist slant within this community, but that courtesy is a two-way street. I don’t think it’s that much to ask that people to put in the bare minimum to respect the spaces they enter without having to be cajoled to do so by others, and in turn, I do my best to respect the communities I visit both online and offline.

        I actually rescinded my downvote after they added the tag because they were following the rules at that point, in spite of my misgivings about the project.

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