My work is requiring me to start using AI so I did an exploration this weekend.

I was blown away by how quickly I was able to get a working app. Full social media clone complete with persistence, video and audio playback, auth, realtime updates, and image uploads in about half an hour. I was then horrified by the quality of the code and how little I understood what the code was doing. I 10x’ed my speed, but in return debugging and editing was 100x harder and more time consuming.

I was also attempting to learn React Native and took note of how little debugging using the AI helped me actually learn the platform I was working with. I ended up abandoning the AI in favor of just learning directly.

  • hello_hello [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    11 days ago

    so you’re using LLMs for programming, what have you created? What problems have you solved to make peoples lives better.

    I machine generated social media web app slop.

    oh.

    • VibeCoder [they/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      3·
      11 days ago

      Yeah it’s not something I’m releasing or was meant to be a good app for actual users. Just a toy project to learn with. I usually do a social media feed instead of todo app or a counter button because it lets me dive a little deeper and it’s a domain I’m familiar with.