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by cynicalkane 86 days ago
The app is vibecoded. The author isn't making decisions about these tradeoffs and possibly wasn't aware of the implications of these decisions at all. The robot they used tried to fulfill its given prompts at the expense of everything else, which is why it's looking in bad directories and trying to install Docker environments in the build script.

I suspect that some of the author's comments in this thread are vibe-written, also. They are LLM-flavored and contrast strongly vs. their regular commenting.
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selcuka 86 days ago
> The app is vibecoded. The author isn't making decisions about these tradeoffs and possibly wasn't aware of the implications of these decisions at all. The

I agree, but to be fair this is how I would code it, too. I would have probably bundled the Python interpreter and only downloaded the FFmpeg binary (because of its license), but that's a relatively minor difference.

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cozzyd 85 days ago
Do.. people not already have ffmpeg on their machines? In that case it should use the system package manager.
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selcuka 85 days ago
Not all people do. Also it may be a different version that doesn't support the command line arguments that you use, or it may not have been compiled with the flags that you want. It's just less headache to vendor it.
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