With AI coding I was able to build three applications I always wanted but never had time to code them.
Now it is different in a way — I don’t have time to use them.
ogig 25 minutes ago [-]
My most abandoned type of projects are video games. I have a folder with tens of abandoned projects, I re-frame them as experiments at that point. This last week I decided to give Claude a go at one of these, and it's been a blast, it picked up the general path immediately. Since I said to CC they were abandon projects, he explicitly pushed into "lets have V0 game play loop finished, then we can compound and have fun = not giving up". Its been awesome at game dev, I gave him game design ideas, he comes with working code. I gave him papers about procedural algos, and he comes with the implementation, brainstorm items, create graphic assets (he created a set of procedural 2d generators as external tools), he even helped me build the lore. These have been one of the most fun times using a computer in a long time. Claude Code + Godot = fun. Going back to it.
riddlemethat 6 minutes ago [-]
What’s fun for me these days is picking up a project I started with an LLM doing agent driven development a few months ago or even a year ago and hit a wall and stopped being able to be picked up by the latest version of Claude and/or codex and bringing it further. Some can now launch some still are too complex for the agent to build. But, it’s getting easier and easier to build personal apps. We are not far off from being able to say “Alexa, build me an app on my iPhone that lets me take pictures of the food in my fridge to compile the nutritional benefits and sync it with my workout app then compare it to the ideal ingredients I should eat based on my fitness goals in my health app and have it set to send me emails where it can find me better ingredients to buy that are cost effective, local, and meet my diet restrictions” and in 15 minutes that app suddenly exists.
quietbritishjim 18 minutes ago [-]
I think this is the first time I've seen someone refer to an LLM as "he" rather than "it". No judgement, but I definitely found it interesting (and disconcerting).
folkrav 5 minutes ago [-]
I've heard it quite a bit before, but mostly from second-language speakers whose first language don't have impersonal third-person pronouns - e.g. French uses "il" or "elle" for all of "he", "she" or "it".
It doesn't help that the marketing leans heavily on anthropomorphizing LLMs either, IMHO.
osener 3 minutes ago [-]
It is common amongst French, Dutch etc speakers where saying "it said x" sounds unnatural.
arcatek 16 minutes ago [-]
Isn't Godot a little ill-designed to work well with LLMs? for example I ended up a couple of times with incorrect tres files, and letting the llm generate IDs feel a little fragile.
aleksiy123 22 minutes ago [-]
On the topic of procedural, one thing I experiment with is having the llm part of the procedural loop.
Sort of writing a narrative on top live.
Unfortunately, local models are still a bit slow and weak but was interesting to see what it came up with nonetheless.
theshrike79 15 minutes ago [-]
> In my mind there are different buckets for personal projects. One is things I do to learn and grow and the other is things I really wish existed.
Pretty much 100% of projects I've done with vibe coding/engineering is in the second category. Stuff I need that either doesn't exist or exists, but is either horribly complex to configure or is a mess of 420 features even though I just need one of them.
It's a lot easier for me to implement that one specific feature just for myself than keep vigilant on an existing app's eventual scope creep as it progresses to the eventual ability to read email[0] =).
There certainly is some relaxing value in working on projects to vibe code them; but not enough to pay some random corporation. Get yourself a Mac Studio or AMD395+ and pi or opencode, and a few plugins and they're pretty capable. Since they're not speed demons but reliable compaions who are always there, you don't ever feel compelled to constantly attend to whatever they're doing.
And when you inevitably get bored with it, well, you've not done much anyway. You can always get back up to speed in a month and have the LLM remind you of what it was doing.
AntiUSAbah 17 minutes ago [-]
I find $200/month for the pro/max subscriptions cost prohibivitve, but as a software enginere $20/month is just lunch.
And with a Claude or GPT $20 Subscription, i can do other fun things too like using it for real things (emails) or image generation.
A Mac Studio or AMD395 is neither of it. And its not just a basic setup either. I need to buy it, configure it, put it somewhere. That alone is a grand and more + a whole weekend.
IanCal 15 minutes ago [-]
Buying hardware is paying a "random corporation". Make the massive hardware purchase after finding out if you have enough demand to buy rather than rent,
sdevonoes 23 minutes ago [-]
But why give Anthropic/openai our money? Nonsense. Use open models
AntiUSAbah 16 minutes ago [-]
Quality, simplicity, speed.
I have a ML Setup with 2 4090 and 128gb of ram, its warm when i use them for finetuning or batch processes.
I do not run them for coding. Its a lot easier and nicer to play around with better models for just 20 $.
theshrike79 19 minutes ago [-]
The author got $50 free credits.
Also Anthropic is by far the best, open (local) models are glorified autocomplete at best unless you casually have 20k€ worth of hardware at home.
eikenberry 1 minutes ago [-]
Why assume local when you can easily use any of the open models via openrouter or any number of similar services.
dang 21 minutes ago [-]
[stub for offtopicness]
[we've hopefully deprovokified the title now]
WaxProlix 31 minutes ago [-]
To use agentic what? Off topic as heck but I really dislike this trend of coercing adjectives into true nominals - we're using programmatic! - like some sort of even-more-obnoxious variant on the verb to noun ('the ask') process.
Why does it bother me so? I have no idea.
tensegrist 25 minutes ago [-]
blame the hn title rules (although i would just have substituted "AI")
i doubt anyone is nouning "agentic" of their own accord (yet)
sailfast 25 minutes ago [-]
It’s ok to use coding assistance tools for anything you’d like! Not that you needed the permission of some random on the internet.
hard_times 25 minutes ago [-]
Oh? How very kind of the author to allow me to.
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Now it is different in a way — I don’t have time to use them.
It doesn't help that the marketing leans heavily on anthropomorphizing LLMs either, IMHO.
Sort of writing a narrative on top live.
Unfortunately, local models are still a bit slow and weak but was interesting to see what it came up with nonetheless.
Pretty much 100% of projects I've done with vibe coding/engineering is in the second category. Stuff I need that either doesn't exist or exists, but is either horribly complex to configure or is a mess of 420 features even though I just need one of them.
It's a lot easier for me to implement that one specific feature just for myself than keep vigilant on an existing app's eventual scope creep as it progresses to the eventual ability to read email[0] =).
[0] http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/Z/Zawinskis-Law.html
And when you inevitably get bored with it, well, you've not done much anyway. You can always get back up to speed in a month and have the LLM remind you of what it was doing.
And with a Claude or GPT $20 Subscription, i can do other fun things too like using it for real things (emails) or image generation.
A Mac Studio or AMD395 is neither of it. And its not just a basic setup either. I need to buy it, configure it, put it somewhere. That alone is a grand and more + a whole weekend.
I have a ML Setup with 2 4090 and 128gb of ram, its warm when i use them for finetuning or batch processes.
I do not run them for coding. Its a lot easier and nicer to play around with better models for just 20 $.
Also Anthropic is by far the best, open (local) models are glorified autocomplete at best unless you casually have 20k€ worth of hardware at home.
[we've hopefully deprovokified the title now]
Why does it bother me so? I have no idea.
i doubt anyone is nouning "agentic" of their own accord (yet)