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I think this is the beginning of the end of Github. Who has time to read through all these new vibe-coded projects and tools? The READMEs alone are basically essays. You can always get a chuckle or two if you read long enough though, so there's that...

Acknowledgments

- OpenAI for providing the GPT API

- The conventional commits specification

- The git community for powerful version control tools

The future of sharing code is probably dead. Everything is write-only now. Vibe it yourself.

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Counterpoint: LLMs seem to depend on robust, stable, and easy to use libraries nearly as much as we do. Due to context limitations, vibe-coding a mega-monolithic project in one shot with zero dependencies would be a silly exercise. Therefore, there is still a use for sharing code, even if plenty of it is agentic.

LLMs only "depend" on libraries because library usage is in their training set. Clearly they don't actually need to use libraries.

Using a library keeps the context window smaller than writing it all yourself. I also suspect the whole vibe-coding thing works best when most of the total running code is NOT vibe-coded, and follows carefully defined behavior the fast-and-loose parts can build on top of.

Otherwise, why bother to run your vibe-coded website on nginx? Just have the LLM spit out its own novel web server, its own novel TCP stack, its own novel OS for that matter.

Why bother indeed!

> docs(readme): remove acknowledgments section

Heh. I wonder if the author asked GPT to remove that section from the readme.

yes that’s what I’ve done! :)

You should drop the conventional commits nonsense. “docs(readme):” provides less than zero value.

> conventional commits specification

Please stop following this. It provides zero value.

Interesting that OP removed this [1] from the README and didn't explain why in their commit message or by replying to this comment.

[1]: https://github.com/f/git-rewrite-commits/commit/210ada7ec78f...

honestly, I used to like writing README files before the AI (see my other repos), but I don’t like writing them anymore. GPT does it really well, it may have some mistakes but thankfully, you guys highlight them :)

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"Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine."

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says

What is the "strongest plausible interpretation" of that comment? Because I interpreted it in the exact same way, and don't really see any other possible interpretation.

Since the HN community is obviously not reviewing every commit in all of the OP's repos, I imagine that the last bit ("you guys highlight them") was a light-hearted reference to the current thread.

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