I've had my 99% vibe coded Hazel replacement running for almost a year now. Still works.

Same with my bespoke IRC client, RSS feed hydrators and a dozen other small utilities I've vibe coded. All stuff that I've been planning for a long time, but haven't found out the time to dedicate to them.

Now I'm saving actual money every year because I could drop subscriptions applications.

Not every application needs a weekly release with new groundbreaking features. They're just one and done. Maybe an update if you hit a sharp edge while using it.

I used Claude to document the wire and firmware protocol for an expensive piece of equipment I own where the only software available ran on PowerPC OS X.

Is this just "vibes"? Maybe, but I now have a full, verified spec, against which to build software for myself, also with a little bit of "vibes".

Is this a good or bad thing?

Vibe coded software is currently already better than half the developers out there. Accept it. Code won't be seen anymore. It's a skill only a handful of jobs require to have.

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My dad, who is in his 70s, recently started recreating a piece of audio visualization software from the 00s using Codex. He’s having the time of his life! He was never interested in programming/CS. He just wants his software back.

I get the point that you're trying to make, but it's not just people who were undisciplined. I spent many years developing code projects that I remember spending hours every afternoon just to ship a single feature, and that pace has obviously changed.

I still get the joy of translating ideas and orchestrating and architecting solutions to problems I have in real life, but just at a quicker pace.

If some of those tools and solutions can help other people, that's great. If not, that's okay too. I hope everyone sort of has that mindset who's building today.

>The only number thats gone up is people who were slightly interested in programming/CS before but were too undisciplined to learn things themselves. Llms are great for those lazy people.

Me!

haha I dont even know github I use it as google

Yes I have full time IT job xD

Long live stremio + torrentio

> What I meant is that whatever I can do with an LLM they can do more.

That's true but we have the benefit of unlimited time, having physical control, the analog hole.

> As far as I can tell no manufacturer disables the car yet when detecting modifications, or take drivers to court for doing it, yet.

As far as I know cars are a special case in much of the world (US, EU, others?). Right to repair laws laws usually give you the right to use non-OEM parts.

Aren't DMCA anti-circumvention provisions the bigger concern in the US? I think the EU has an exemption to allow reverse engineering for the purposes of interoperability and repair.

> Tesla showed everyone the way with things like always-on connectivity

Nothing prevents you from unplugging the cell modem. The car will still work.

> The consumer market owes quite some consumer rights to the EU

Not for car owners/consumers in the EU. Auto makers and dealers get away with a lot of shady shit fucking over their customers in the EU all the time. For example we in the EU don't have the same trigger happiness of NHTSA mass recalls the Americans have, but matters of such auto issues/defects is left to individual member states or even at individual case by case to decide what action is needed, and responses are a lot weaker and more limp-dick than in the US, almost never leading to mass recalls, even for the same issues[1], mainly because the US is more litigious making car manufacturers to be on the edge and proactive to issues.

Like sibling said, there are incentives to regulate stuff that has no impact on EU businesses, shit like USB-C or replaceable batteries, but they won't touch the auto industry to mandate easier repairs and less lock-downs.

  Brand & Models    | Defect             | US Action      | EU Action
  ------------------+--------------------+----------------+------------------
  BMW (2011-2018)   | Coolant pump plug  | NHTSA recall   | Excluded from
  N20/N26 engines   | short / fire risk  | (720k+ cars)   | recall
  ------------------+--------------------+----------------+------------------
  VW / Audi (08-13) | Timing chain       | 10yr/100k mi   | No recall; case-
  2.0T EA888        | tensioner failure  | warranty + $   | by-case goodwill
  ------------------+--------------------+----------------+------------------
  Ford Focus/Fiesta | DPS6 PowerShift    | 10yr/150k TCM  | No recall; few
  (2011-2016)       | transmission fail  | + buybacks     | buybacks/payouts
  ------------------+--------------------+----------------+------------------
  Hyundai / Kia     | Theta II / Nu GDI  | 3M+ recalled + | No mass recall
  (2011-2019)       | bearing/fire risk  | lifetime wrty  | (diff specs/plants)
  ------------------+--------------------+----------------+------------------
  Tesla 3/Y/S/X     | Autopilot nag &    | 2M+ NHTSA OTA  | No EU recall
  (2021-2024)       | UI font compliance | recalls        | (UNECE rules)

> The consumer market owes quite some consumer rights to the EU

Let's be clear that it's just incentives. If the EU economy was based on creating companies and new products there would not be as many incentives for consumer "rights" there.