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Hi dude,

Well, “Here is my entirely generated LLM tool” is clearly a red flag. I’m a software engineer for 20 years, I’ll try to explain you why it is a redflag for developpers.

First, how many gallon of water and kg of coal were used to generate it ? Using LLM has a real hidden cost.
3500 lines of code written in 1 week… Professional developers write around 10 to 100 lines a day. Why ? Because understanding a system takes time. Here, there are 3500 lines no one is able to explain. “It works” doesn’t mean “It works”. Building a software is not just about making it work in your own use case.
Github like platforms were created to collaborate. It is not possible to collaborate on a vibe coded application. There are too many code that were written too quickly. And without the whole prompt history, the model used, etc… it is not even possible to do “collaborative vibe coding”. Another agent with another prompt history won’t have the full context of application, and won’t be able to keep consistency.
Now, github, gitlab, codeberg, etc… are flooded by these kind of app, generate by a single person in a few days on which it is not possible to collaborate. OpenSource maintainer are flooded by AI Slope code, and more and more project are forced to become closed source, or to restrict contributions only to some user.
The developer of a software is the worst person ever to test it. There are cognitive bias that make the developer unconsciously avoid scenarios that can break the system. If only one developer built a product, I’m 100% sure I won’t be able to build and run it on my computer without trouble. And again, every vibe-coded application were built by a single person.

If your tool works for you and your friend, cool. But the real value of a source code is not the source itself. It’s the people that worked on it, that built a common understanding, that ran it in several environment, with several use case, and that makes it robust. So don’t be mad if no one want to test your code.

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Svinhufvud@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Hi and thanks for the comment.

Just to clarify, I am looking for neither contributors nor QA testers for the code. I generated this just for my benefit and threw it into the open. If someone gets any use out of it, cool. If not, also cool.

I am also not claiming the code to be professional or particularly robust. This is why I made the LLM part clear.

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vegetaaaaaaa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I wish more people understood this.

Do I use LLMs to write software for my personal use? Sure. I still try to build it in an “incremental” way the same way I would write software manually so I don’t get 10k SLOC written in a week, but at some point, even reviewing 100 LOC changes takes time, so I just take a cursory look at the diff, yolo-merge-and-run to test it. It’s not critical. This is fine. I’m just exploring the problem domain and solutions.

But would I go as far as sharing it, making a damn git repo and advertising it on Lemmy? Fuck no. This is unreliable, inscrutable slopware tailored for my own use. Anyone with a local LLM or a 20 euro claude/codex/z.ai subscription can do the same thing in a few minutes of work a day.

A single 10-line patch/contribution to a human-written project, with contributors who understand the code, or even a well-curated comment in a bug tracker that helps devs debug an issue or clearly, has more value for the community than 50 vibe-coded projects.

I didn’t find one that would work entirely authelssly and which would allow negative entries

Have you considered filing feature requests for these?

Yes, even writing a proper issue report probably entails more work and brainstorming than prompting your way to a shitty solution. No offense meant, I do it as well. I know using a LLM and pumping out a working solution to a complex problem in a week gives a feeling of euphoria and power; this wouldn’t have been possible at all a few years ago. But there is absolutely no value in proactively sharing and advertising it.

I appreciate OP being transparent about it though.

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