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by lelanthran 52 days ago
I think this product demonstrates the atrophying of thought that results from too much LLM usage: design was obviously a long back-and-forth with a sycophantic LLM.

I find out what all my local servers are by `cat /etc/hosts`, because I put them in there. They run using an entry in the nginx config.

For short-lived stuff I don't even bother with that, I just use `whatever.localhost`.

If there was no LLM, author would have put a little more thought into this, maybe did a google search, and realised that all he needed were two shell scripts.

The more you use LLMs, the less you actually think

> The real annoyance is that it wasn’t just one machine. It was layers.

> I wanted a simple launcher for all the things that aren’t traditional desktop apps. Not Finder, Alfred or Raycast.

The entire damn article is like this - why would I trust software to run on my local machine when it was written by someone who did not even take care writing a blog post? How much care would they have possibly put into reviewing their vibe coded slop if they couldn't even bother to review their blog post?

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That was my exact post a couple days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47936315 (didn't get much traction)
> I put them in there

That seems to run orthogonal to this. The primary benefit I see here is not having to care at all what ports apps are actually starting on. Just run them, and access them by name. Same as a regular website on the internet where one doesn't care about the IP.

> How much care would they have possibly put into reviewing

Just enough to ensure that it works for them, which is what really matters. Others go in knowing that as well, and add/change that base to their own preference. That's the world we're now in.

> Just enough to ensure that it works for them, which is what really matters.

If that's what really mattered they wouldn't have posted an article they didn't write trying to get traction on a product they didn't create from a userbase that doesn't need it.

Nah people will be people, and a part of being a person is wanting approval from other people for something. And there will always be at least a few appreciative members of said userbase: I'm one of them.

Doesn't matter if they didn't actually write the code, but they put effort into refining an idea for a problem into a solution that fit their needs, and in sharing they've given those who never thought of it a base they can work from if they want or just go make something similar from scratch.

I couldn't agree more. It seems so odd to have a HN submission for some vibe coded little "help-me tool" that is not clearly even needed. I wouldn't even say anything except the whole "vibe" thing is all over the article. It's just all a bit much. It's just sad.