| ▲ | azan_ 4 hours ago |
| > The secret is that it doesn't work. I have 100% vibecoded software that I now use instead of commercial implementation that cost me almost 200 usd a month (tool for radiology dictation and report generation). |
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| ▲ | alecbz 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Wait, so you're a radiologist and you're using software you vibecoded to generate radiology reports for real patients? Is that, like, allowed? |
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| ▲ | mbesto 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Not saying it's right, but boy do I have stories about the code used in <insert any medical profession> healthcare applications. Not sure how "vibecoded" programming lines of code is any worse. | | |
| ▲ | dullcrisp 30 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Because that code is presumably working and the vibe code is probably not? | | |
| ▲ | alecbz 7 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Honestly even if this wasn't vibe-coded I'm still a bit surprised at individual radiologists being able to bring their own software to work, for things that can have such a high effect on patient outcomes. |
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| ▲ | d1sxeyes 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Depends where in the world they are. Here in Hungary, it’s not uncommon to email your-family-doctor@gmail.com | | |
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| ▲ | anonymous908213 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| And yet I notice you haven't mentioned publishing it and undercutting the market. You could make a lot of money out-competing the existing option if what you produced was production-grade software. I'm guessing the actual case is that you only needed a small subset of the functionality of the paid software, and the LLM stitched together a rough unpolished proof-of-concept that handled your exact specific use case. Which is still great for you! But it's not the future of coding. The world still needs real engineers to make real software that is suitable for the needs of many, and this doesn't replace that. |
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| ▲ | jcims 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | >The world still needs real engineers to make real software that is suitable for the needs of many, and this doesn't replace that. I think azan_ is demonstrating that shipping products 'suitable for the needs of many' is going to have to compete with 'slopping software for the needs of one'. | | |
| ▲ | anonymous908213 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | The only people who think that are programmers already or programmer-adjacent. Your mother is never going to be able to use a Gas Town-like workflow to make software for her own needs, nor is she even going to want to spend her weekends trying. These tools still require a baseline minimum of technical knowledge, and a real time investment, and also a real money investment the way some people are using them. Moreover, most real software has interoperability needs. A world where everyone makes their own Twitter or WhatsApp is a world where nobody can talk to anyone else. There is a small subset of the population who is now enabled to make proof-of-concepts with less effort than before. This is no way diminishes the need for delivering performant, secure, interoperable software at scale to serve humanity's needs. | | |
| ▲ | blenderob 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > Your mother is never going to be able to use a Gas Town-like workflow to make software for her own needs, nor is she even going to want to spend her weekends trying. I'm going on a tangent here but what's with this constant deprecation of mothers to make a point? There are many people here whose mothers can develop software. | | |
| ▲ | dullcrisp 23 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | I think it’s just a generalization. They could have said “your uncle Pete” without actually implying anything about anyone’s uncle named Peter. | |
| ▲ | anonymous908213 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | People's mothers are statistically unlikely to be programmers, obviously. My own grandmother was a programmer, but it conveys the idea in two words rather than making up a clunky phrase to describe the exact degree of non-techiness of the hypothetical person. |
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| ▲ | throwway120385 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | What if we packaged Gas Town up in an operating system userspace, put it on rails, and gave people an interface to it? | | |
| ▲ | anonymous908213 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | An interface isn't enough. Even if you never look at the code, the results are going to be influenced significantly by having the vocabulary to accurately describe what you want. The less sufficient your technical vocabulary, the more ambiguous your prompts will be and the less likely it is that the Polecats will be able to deliver anything resembling your unspoken imagination. To say nothing of being able to guide the lost critters when they run into problems. |
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| ▲ | throwway120385 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | It sounds like a medical device, in which case marketing it may require FDA approval or notification. Whereas vibe-coding a one-off tool for yourself might still require validation but you're the one taking the risk and accepting liability for it. I think the thing you're missing is that the tool doesn't need to be marketed because someone else could ask their LLM to make them a similar tool but fitting their use case. | | |
| ▲ | anonymous908213 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | If they're using a 100% vibe-coded tool that they've never read the code of to replace something that would require government approval, for use on real-world patients, they're probably committing medical malpractice as we speak. Let us pray that is not the case. It doesn't matter if the tool "needs" to be marketed. There is a market of paying customers. If other people are paying $200/month, both your and their lives would be improved significantly by you offering a $100/month replacement software. For all the talk about LLMs replacing the need for packaged software, people are still paying for packaged software, and while they are, you could be making large amounts of money while saving them money. If you're altruistic, you could even release it as FOSS and save a lot of people $200/mo. Unless, of course, your vibe-coded app isn't actually remotely capable of replacing the software in question. |
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| ▲ | saidarembrace 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Not everything has to be monetized, buddy. It's okay to relax. | | |
| ▲ | anonymous908213 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | > If you're altruistic, you could even release it as FOSS and save a lot of people $200/mo. Unless, of course, your vibe-coded app isn't actually remotely capable of replacing the software in question. |
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| ▲ | Analemma_ 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Vibe-coded radiology reports, finally the 21st century will get its own Therac-25 incident. |
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| ▲ | johnmaguire 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| My partner is a radiologist and I'd love to hear more about what you built. The engineer in me is also curious how much this cost in credits? |
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| ▲ | kaydub 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | It CAN be cheap. I built a clinical pharmacist "pocket calculator" kinda app for a specific function. It was like $.60 in claude credits I think. Built with flutter + dart. It's a simple tool suite and I've only built out one of the tools so far. Now to be fair, that $.60 session was just the coding. I did some brainstorming in chatgpt and generated good markdown files (claude.md, gemini.md, agents.md) before I started. |
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| ▲ | timeon 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| How much costs you renting vibecoding tools? |
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