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"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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patriceckhart 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

zot is a coding agent harness. not a data vault, not a pacemaker, and not a life-support device in any medical sense.

Ive been coding for almost 20 years, and for the past few with Go. Nobody would believe that a project of this scale or even a much smaller one could be pulled off, halfway stable, over a couple of days. Not even with a blueprint or two in hand. Thats why it matters, and its totally fair, to point out when something is largely vibe-coded. "Vibe slopped" is meant more as a joke. The essential parts of the code I actually understand. Some of them I modified and overhauled myself.

zot is a learning project not production logic with peoples sensible data or lives depending on it. ;-)

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sshine 14 hours ago | parent [-]

I get the joke, and I appreciate it.

As someone with 20 years of professional coding experience who vibe-codes certain tools in my current stack, I really get it.

But I'd still remove it from the front page, it just reads like you admit it sucks. Which vibe-coding a dev tool doesn't have to.

Judging from the animation, you actually cared to test the TUI quite a lot. (I've been vibe-coding TUI components without making an actual harness.)

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patriceckhart 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Thanks for the tip. I might do that—though honestly, Im a sucker for jokes like this. And yeah, the TUI is literally 98% vibe coded.

	▲	arecsu 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		If it helps, I did totally get the joke and love when there are these bits of humanity and sarcasm, somehow lost in today's landscape, it used to be more frequent in the past. And I also get what you've described in the previous paragraph from just reading it. Might be that some people get it, some don't. Do what you feel best!

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patriceckhart 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

btw, you can totally use zot's packages for your own TUI too.