Very cool in theory. Unfortunately it's just 12klocs of a vibe-coded week-end project.

Edit: it's actually 50klocs since the pyOpenVBA dependency is from the same author and has been made the week-end before.

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airstrike 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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stymaar 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> especially of other people's work.

Claude ain't “other people” so I don't think this applies.

By the way, the guidelines proscribe AI-generated comments, so I don't see why AI-generated posts should be treated differently.

	▲	airstrike 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> Claude ain't “other people” so I don't think this applies. Claude didn't make the post or come up with the idea or execute it independently, so not sure how that applies. If you want to comment on the code quality or the engineering itself, that would be a good critical comment that teaches us something. > By the way, the guidelines proscribe AI-generated comments, so I don't see why AI-generated posts should be treated differently. That's your opinion and not the guideline, so again not sure how it applies. You're free to e-mail hn@ycombinator.com and suggest, but I'm sure it crossed their mind when they wrote about AI comments so I don't think it's been decided that AI-aided projects are somehow automatically invalidated.
	▲	bitwize 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		This is a nice demonstration of how AI enables people to build things that just wouldn't have existed before because the hassle was prohibitive. Negativity is still unwarranted here.

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wiseowise 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

When was this specific guideline written? In 2008? And dies it really apply when we’re talking about slop?

	▲	airstrike 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		When it was written has no bearing on its validity. It applies when you're talking about someone else's work. Not every repo is slop. If you want to make a claim that this code is bad, then claim that rather than saying "they used AI therefore it's bad" which is, as the rule says, a shallow dismissal that teaches us nothing.

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password4321 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

As long as no one is trying to hide anything, I won't complain. Working on VBA outside of Excel seems useful, especially if reliably integrated with source control.

Ultimately this project's success will be determined by its test suite... it's tough to get quality tests by vibe coding.