No one could have built this software but me because it’s worth nothing to others. And I couldn’t build it because it takes too long. But when I’m using an agent to code the limited resource is my attention which actually does fine so long as every free brain cycle is on a task. So these personal things are great to throw into my tab loop to occupy a free slot.
These have been wonderful times.
It doesn't help that the marketing leans heavily on anthropomorphizing LLMs either, IMHO.
People often commit mistakes regarding that, the same way we don't have "they" as pronoun to someone we don't know the gender, so we address to these people as "dele(dela)" (masculine and feminine pronouns).
But if this is coming from someone who has english as a primary language it's definetely weird to treat models as person
Source: am Dutch. Can’t wait for us to just ditch gendered nouns.
So that's another, maybe more harmless reason for it.
Curiously though I don’t get the same sensation when technologies are gendered by other people. I honestly don’t recall thinking about it when Apple released Siri. (Now I’m second-guessing myself and wondering if I should’ve reacted negatively towards feminine being the default for someone in a personal assistant role.)
This trips me up occasionally when I'm translating things into English. Once, when I referred to an indefinite gender player character in a gacha game as a "he" (because the word "player" is a "he"), quite a few people got mad! Even though in my head I was never trying to imply one way or the other.
Yes judgment. Loads of it. Judge away.
This is just bizarre. Do not refer to this product of marketing-technology as you refer to a person. EVER.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1A7kfcjHjSmCNidqc9t731uoglzL... https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Bl_n0ECqc78LGGf7SsOx38mRUOP... https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JMcgzqcnZ2ncboeyAXvscRWagqR... https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-luJ6y7YslNfwmFnCdIDbJ871i0... https://drive.google.com/file/d/14n4TLAVywk_1GMhLLGOuukQwUmb...
Sort of writing a narrative on top live.
Unfortunately, local models are still a bit slow and weak but was interesting to see what it came up with nonetheless.
> he even helped me build the lore. These have been one of the most fun times using a computer in a long time.
Such a warm, touching story about a friendship between a grown up man and his neural network. But at least I had a good, roaring laugh reading this nonsense, thank you for that!
…and yet, most people continue to say that non standard tooling ecosystems, where the agent cannot run and validate the code it writes, remain difficult and unproductive.
“I just pointed CC at godot and it made a game! This is sooo good”
…is a fairytale.
What tooling are you using to make it run and compile the code? How is it iterating on the project without breaking existing functionality?
None of these are insurmountable, but they require some careful setup.
Posts like this dont make me laugh; they just make me roll my eyes.
Either the OP has not done what they claim.
Or they have spent a lot more time and effort on it than they claim.
> I gave him game design ideas, he comes with working code. I gave him papers about procedural algos, and he comes with the implementation, brainstorm items, create graphic assets (he created a set of procedural 2d generators as external tools), he even helped me build the lore.
Such a sweet story about a boy and his AI.
Unfortunately, I also dont believe in fairytales.
Instead of waving your hands wildly about AI, post some videos and code of the results.
This is hackernews, not hypenews.
Here's a bullet point list of the things Claude's done according to OP:
* it picked up the general path immediately
* he explicitly pushed into "lets have V0 game play loop finished, then we can compound and have fun = not giving up".
* [I gave him game design ideas,] he comes with working code.
* [I gave him papers about procedural algos,] and he comes with the implementation
* brainstorm[ed] items
* create[d] graphic assets
* he created a set of procedural 2d generators as external tools
* he even helped me build the lore.
Every one of these are plausible in isolation.
You imply I'm merely "pointing CC at godot and it made a game"; I never said it was simple, required no previous knowledge, that it was instant or that the game was done. I do have a careful setup involving CI and isolation.
Godot provides a headless mode. CC runs python scripts to run tests and check for debugger warnings. For anything more complex it can wire debug info anywhere. Godot is fully code based so you can make the analogy with any other framework you used AI assistants with.
No sure about what you can't believe about my statements. CC implementing algo from a paper? That it can brainstorm item or lore ideas? I don't seem to be claiming anything out of the common usage of LLMs
I got it working well enough to display what I wanted in text and ascii, but I could never get the interface good enough to want to use it daily, and certainly couldn't get the graphical interface working. I threw it a Claude Code, told it what I wanted the graphical interface to look like, and let it run.
It got an app exactly what I wanted, and even found a bug in the date parser that I hadn't noticed. I now have it running in the corner of my screen at all times.
The next app I'm going to build is an iPhone app that turns off all my morning alarms when the kids' don't have school. Something I've wanted forever, but never could build because I know nothing about making iPhone apps and don't have time to learn (because of the aforementioned children).
Claude Code is brilliant for personal apps. The code quality doesn't really matter, so you can just take what it gives you and use it.
Agreed.
The clipboard manager I had been using on my Macs for many years started flaking out after an OS update. The similar apps in the App Store didn’t seem to have the functionality I was looking for. So inspired by a Simon Willison blog post [1] about vibe coding SwiftUI apps, I had Claude Code create one for me. It took a few iterations to get it working, but it is now living in the menu bar of my Mac, doing everything I wanted and more.
Particularly enlightening to me was the result of my asking CC for suggestions for additional features. It gave me a long list of ideas I hadn’t considered, I chose the ones I wanted, and it implemented them.
Two days ago, I decided I wanted a dedicated markdown editor for my own use—something like the new markdown editing component in LibreOffice [2] but smaller and lighter. I asked the new GPT 5.5 to prepare an outline of such a program, and I had CC implement it. After two vibe coding sessions, I now have a lightweight native Mac app that does nearly everything I want: open and create markdown files, edit them in a word-processing-like environment, and save them with canonical markdown formatting. It doesn’t handle markdown tables yet; I’ll try to get CC to implement that feature later today.
[1] https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/27/vibe-coding-swiftui/
create a shortcut that turns off all alarms. Can have it read your calendar or whatever as signal to determine if alarms should be on/off for a certain day/time and have it run at a regular schedule.
(But in seriousness, I hadn't considered using shortcuts. It's not clear it's extensible enough to do exactly what I want, but I'll look into it)
If you really want to engage an LLM to help point it towards Cherri (https://github.com/electrikmilk/cherri) to help with implementation
If you like creating, buying software from Anthropic is boring as hell.
I've been programming for 30+ years now, but I've always been fine with command line applications. Only recently I started getting into Qt to add a UI and turn my stuff into a real desktop application. It's been a real steep learning curve but I'm finally over it more or less.
Anyway I posted a screenshot of my application on LinkedIn, and mentioned it would be free and open source. I got HUNDREDS of comments from "LinkedIn-type people" all big name engineers that wouldn't HIRE me for anything but either made comments like "looking forward to integrating this into our workflows" or "not the first time someone tried to do this..."
Either way, instead of feeling motivated, I got the worst feeling that I'm doing all this work and people are either going to just take advantage of it and get the credit for "finding" it, or criticize it simply because it's not for them.
It bummed me out so bad that I stopped work on it entirely for like a month.
Anyway I finally came to look at it the way you mentioned. What I LIKED was the process of learning Qt and seeing my old programs come alive.
So instead, it's my "project car" now. I build it up and tear it down all the time. Totally redesign the data models just to see what advantages different designs can give me. Try make my own graphical views. Try implementing language translations.
It's been "finished" for a while now but I probably have five completely different-under-the-hood versions of it and THAT is what has been fun.
I use it constantly all day at work and I never mentioned it on LinkedIn again lol
You can pay more of course, buy them a computer, an internet connecties, books, courses, even an office but it isnt required.
Just pay 60 per project every 4 weeks and ignore it. If interesting progress happens its fun to look at.
Now it is different in a way — I don’t have time to use them.
Anyhoo, I'm working on making it pretty (it works!!) before integrating it into my opinionated GraphQL server[1].
There really is no excuse for NOT being the change you wish to see in the world anymore.
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Pretty much 100% of projects I've done with vibe coding/engineering is in the second category. Stuff I need that either doesn't exist or exists, but is either horribly complex to configure or is a mess of 420 features even though I just need one of them.
It's a lot easier for me to implement that one specific feature just for myself than keep vigilant on an existing app's eventual scope creep as it progresses to the eventual ability to read email[0] =).
Despite coding from a young age I always thought that I cared more about the outcome than the code. Turns out that’s not entirely the case.
Maybe even shamelessly post it as a Show HN along with the other 99% of worthless slop submissions there.
And when you inevitably get bored with it, well, you've not done much anyway. You can always get back up to speed in a month and have the LLM remind you of what it was doing.
I'm very interested in Local LLMs but the cheapest Mac Studio right now is more expensive than 8 years of a Claude Code Pro subscription, and incomparably slower/less capable. If I get bored with it, I will have a piece of unused hardware and a couple grand less in my bank account.
My partner on the otherhand has an M3 Max 64GB which I've had way more success with. Setting up opencode and doing a tiny spec-driven Rust project and watching it kiiinda work was extraordinarily exciting!
And with a Claude or GPT $20 Subscription, i can do other fun things too like using it for real things (emails) or image generation.
A Mac Studio or AMD395 is neither of it. And its not just a basic setup either. I need to buy it, configure it, put it somewhere. That alone is a grand and more + a whole weekend.
This means oyu may be opinionated today on something you will not have tomorrow, 6 months, a year. All that work flow you salivate over can be ripped away.
If you're fine with that, and you've "escaped the permanent underclass" congrats, this opinion is not for you.
It's actually really cool to have it work on some internal tooling and stuff while I work on my primary projects.
I'm surprised how easy it is to setup and that it can handle modestly complex planning and development flows.
I have a ML Setup with 2 4090 and 128gb of ram, its warm when i use them for finetuning or batch processes.
I do not run them for coding. Its a lot easier and nicer to play around with better models for just 20 $.
Also Anthropic is by far the best, open (local) models are glorified autocomplete at best unless you casually have 20k€ worth of hardware at home.
Very usable locally assuming you setup your local tooling correctly and you are an actual programmer who can generally help drive this stuff correctly and not just a vibe coder.
I’ve tried multiple that I can run locally and they’re all very much just glorified autocomplete, but slower - on a M4 Max MacBook
Then I’d be giving money to openrouter and a Chinese model provider, is that better?
now Claude will gas you up and tell you your bad ideas are actually the most amazing thing it’s ever heard
[we've hopefully deprovokified the title now]
Why does it bother me so? I have no idea.
i doubt anyone is nouning "agentic" of their own accord (yet)
Why is this so hard for you to understand?
> Slopping out random stuff you have no attachment to, taught you nothing, and that feels bad to pass off as your own work accomplishes nothing.
You seem frustrated that people have different motivations than you. Have you looked into getting an AI girlfriend?