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by theturtletalks 124 days ago
Posts like this really irk me. There were shitty side projects before AI (trust me, I made a couple), but those people knew how to code so somehow you were able to separate the noise and signal easily. Now, coding is no longer some crazy skill and anyone can make side projects.

Just because you can't separate the noise from signal with that easy check doesn't mean these people can't get the joy of side projects. It's especially lazy when that project is open-source and you can literally ask CC, hey dig into this code, did they build anything interesting or different? Peter's side projects like Vibetunnel and Openclaw have so many hidden gems in the code (a rest API for controlling local terminals and Heartbeat, respectively) that you can integrate into your own project. Neglecting these projects as "AI slop" is stopping you from learning what amazing things people are building, especially when those people have different expertise. Lest we forget, the transformer model came from Alphafold and sometimes the best discoveries come from completely unrelated fields.
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acedTrex 124 days ago
> Just because you can't separate the noise from signal with that easy check doesn't mean these people can't get the joy of side projects

I would love to meet these people that are getting joy out of seeing other peoples random fucking vibe coded apps that have zero rigor or skill applied to them lol.

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theturtletalks 124 days ago
I just gave you two Vibetunnel and Openclaw. If you think those are worthless, I don't know what else to tell you.
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acedTrex 124 days ago
Yes both of those are beyond worthless and largely uninteresting.

That being said, THOSE projects at this point have enough "activity" around them to make them at least somewhat worthy of a post. Which none of the vibe code posts have going for them.

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theturtletalks 124 days ago
How about Pi terminal agent, it's been my favorite terminal agent after trying CC, Droid, Opencode, Codex, Gemini, Amp. Just because you don't find valuable new side projects made using AI, doesn't mean they don't exist.

There's more projects I suspect are made predominantly using AI, but I don't want to speculate.

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