Comment on Open CAD Studio

• 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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      • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yeah.

        Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to touch projects vibe coded to this level, going solely on past experience with them.

        But I am scientifically curious about its functionality.

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