HN has huge issues right now with AI generated code or design.
I have a friend who is a graphic designer/market strategy guy and he's been using Anthropic to build sites and even did an agent on his own page that helps guide the user through onboarding. I reviewed the code a few times and gave him some tips and it looks pretty good and works flawlessly.
He maintain a lot of customer's sites (design wise) and all the customers are responsible for their own hosting and ssl certs. He got tired of them calling him about expired ones, so he had Claude write a script and use Agentmail to notify him when one expires.
A few of them were needing updating when he wrote it, and when I reviewed it (with Claude Fable) it discovered that in the event they were all up-to-date, it wouldn't email him. Other than that, it works perfectly and runs on his machine on a schedule.
This morning he had it write a script to monitor his computer for load, after having issues with Adobe.
What year is it? If you're running a barebones server, just use certbot. It'll automatically renew your certs. Very easy to set up and it's been stable for years without touching it.
> HN has huge issues right now with AI generated code or design.
Yes, because for those of us who enjoy scrolling through /new despite the deluge of spam that has always been a problem, we now have to sift through not just the obvious AI generated stuff that we can discard after a few sentences, but also the stuff where it only becomes obvious after already sinking in 10, 15 minutes of your time that it is undisclosed AI slop with a touch of human effort (or a non-OpenAI/Anthropic model).
And there have been cases here where someone submitted AI vibed stuff and in the comments it became pretty obvious they had zero understanding of what they were doing. The amount of collective time wasted in this thread is absurd.
Personally, I'd love to see HN adopt something like r/amateurradio:
> Moderation feels that this is the best course of action in response from the community. It prevents people from just shoving out stuff they vibecoded the night before but allows for those apps that gain traction a chance to be shared.
However, banning that type of content is an arms race waiting to happen. It also neglects the fact that powerful software can be built with AI with proper attention and knowledge of the domain.
I have a friend who is a graphic designer/market strategy guy and he's been using Anthropic to build sites and even did an agent on his own page that helps guide the user through onboarding. I reviewed the code a few times and gave him some tips and it looks pretty good and works flawlessly.
He maintain a lot of customer's sites (design wise) and all the customers are responsible for their own hosting and ssl certs. He got tired of them calling him about expired ones, so he had Claude write a script and use Agentmail to notify him when one expires.
A few of them were needing updating when he wrote it, and when I reviewed it (with Claude Fable) it discovered that in the event they were all up-to-date, it wouldn't email him. Other than that, it works perfectly and runs on his machine on a schedule.
This morning he had it write a script to monitor his computer for load, after having issues with Adobe.