Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by plastic041 39 days ago
Title says

> back to writing code by hand

But what they are doing is

> doing the __design work__ myself, by hand, before any code gets written.

So... Claude still is generating the code I guess?

And seriously, I can't understand that they thought their vibe coded project works fine and even bought a domain for the project without ever looking at source code it generated, FOR 7 MONTHS??
2 comments
0xpgm 39 days ago
In short, it is simply a click-bait title.

And the goal of the article is to draw attention to their project.

link
lelanthran 38 days ago
> And the goal of the article is to draw attention to their project.

Additionally, they couldn't even bother to write their own blog post, so it's a little hard to take them seriously when they say they're going to write their own code...

link
kdheiwns 39 days ago
It's the same thing every time.

> Claude (c) by Anthropic (R) is the best thing since sliced bread and I'm Lovin' It(tm)! Here's a breakdown of you too can live a code free life for 10 easy payments of $99.99 a month if you subscribe now!

> Step one in your journey to code free life: code the whole damn project and put it together yourself

It's so much fluff and baloney and every single article is identical. And every single one is just over the top praise of Claude that doesn't come off as remotely authentic. There's always mentions of Claude "one shotting"(tm) something.

link
dewey 39 days ago
I bought domains for projects minutes after the idea.

I don’t think it’s that weird to not look at the code if it’s a side project and you follow along incrementally via diffs. It’s definitely a different way of working but it’s not that crazy.

link
bayarearefugee 39 days ago
> I don’t think it’s that weird to not look at the code if it’s a side project and you follow along incrementally via diffs.

Its not weird to not look at the code, as long as you're looking at the code? (diffs?)

Uh, ok

link
retsibsi 39 days ago
The article explicitly says that the author looked at the diffs; it distinguishes this from "sitting down and actually reading the code", which they didn't do. So when plastic041 says the author spent 7 months vibe coding "without ever looking at source code", it's not unreasonable for dewey to assume that "looking at source code", in this context, actually means something stronger and excludes just looking at the diffs.
link