| ▲ | sieste 7 hours ago |
| Related anecdote: My 12yo son didn't like the speed cubing online timer he was using because it kept crashing the browser and interrupted him with ads. Instead of googling a better alternative we sat down with claude code and put together the version of the website that behaved and looked exactly as he wanted. He got it working all by himself in under an hour with less than 10 prompts, I only helped a bit putting it online with github pages so he can use it from anywhere. |
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| ▲ | WarmWash 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I don't think people are grasping yet that this is the future of software, if by no metric other than "most software used is created by the user". |
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| ▲ | AstroBen 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The average user doesn't even know what a file is | | |
| ▲ | sieste 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Turns out that knowing what a plain text file is will be the criterion that distinguishes users who are digitally free from those locked into proprietary platforms. |
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| ▲ | nly 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Wont happen. The average user just has no interest in building things. | | |
| ▲ | sieste 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Many parents are extremely interested in quickly building digital tools for their kids (education and entertainment) that they know are free from advertising, social media integration, user monitoring etc. | | |
| ▲ | GeoAtreides 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | I'm saying this with all my love and respect: you are living in a very small bubble | | |
| ▲ | sieste 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | That may be true. But you also have to give the average parent more credit by assuming they don't want tech companies spying on their children and forcing their toxic platforms on them. There are well attended parent evenings in our school on that topic. Thinking about it, we should turn these into vibe coding hackathons where we replace all the ad-ridden little games, learning tools, messengers we don't like with healthy alternatives. | | |
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| ▲ | WarmWash 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Which is why they will use AI to do the building... |
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| ▲ | marcosdumay 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | So... The future is like the past? That would be good news, but I doubt most people will do things like that. | |
| ▲ | qsera 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | >most software used is created by the user You really believe that? | | |
| ▲ | WarmWash 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Yes, because the current software paradigm (a shed/barn/warehouse full of tools to suite every possible users every possible need) doesn't make sense when LLMs can turn plain English into a software tool in the matter of minutes. | | |
| ▲ | qsera 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | >LLMs can turn plain English into a software tool in the matter of minutes. Unless LLMs can read minds, no one will bother to specify, even in plain english with the required level of detail. And that is assuming the user has the details in mind, which is also something pretty improbable... | | |
| ▲ | Gareth321 31 minutes ago | parent [-] | | You need to think outside the box a little. They're not going to need to write a requirements doc from scratch. They'll tell it to copy a piece of software which is already established and make some customisations or improvements based on their needs. This is a few sentences. |
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| ▲ | zahlman 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | That wasn't being claimed, just proposed as the direction we're headed. | | |
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| ▲ | SlinkyOnStairs 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | > I don't think people are grasping yet that this is the future of software What about this is new? Sitting down with a child to teach them the very basics of javascript in an hour? Trivial. Needing Claude to do it is kind of embarassing, if anything. |
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| ▲ | kaffekaka 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Out of curiosity, did you also implement scramble support? Or just the timing stuff? |
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| ▲ | sieste 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | yes. claude added a suggested random scramble (if that's what you mean?), also running average of 5/12/100, local storage of past times on first iteration, my son told it to also add a button for +2s penalties and touch screen support. |
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| ▲ | zahlman 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| ... So at no point in this did anyone even question why it should be a website? |
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| ▲ | AstroBen 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Because now that website is fully cross-platform and sandboxed with no practical downside | |
| ▲ | sieste 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | "use it from anywhere" was important, and I don't think there's an easier way than a freely hosted static website. |
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