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I used Claude Code for most of the setup. I had a blast.
It's running termux, andronix, nginx, cloudflared and even a prometheus node exporter.
Here's the site:
So, most/all of TFA is copied from Claude code? Or in other words, what you did was prompt Claude - not actually following the instructions on this page (they are the output of Claude)?
Feels weird reading a sort of fictional/parallel reality description - if you follow these instructions you will arrive at a similar result as I got - only this is not how I did it...
That + every little quirk or weird thing I ran into (eg: phantom process killer, which I actually did setup via adb) that I felt was worth mentioning and might help.
Then I told Claude to organize the document better, read it over myself, asked for edits or things to add, etc.
I'd really want to see an actual $35 phone generating a website using a local LLM.
*Which doesn't appear static with information like memory, storage, requests, etc. More interesting than what title makes it seem.
**On the contrary, would want it to be in article itself.
Then i had it incorporate some lambda functions for editing and administrative functions for the site.Getting the github action figured out to allow me to use whatever codespace or whatever to edit. It gave me added practice breaking down projects into small agile tasks in essence. It’s like having a small team of jr. programmers, testers, and devops team at my disposal to create a POC
It all came together in a couple days, looks decent, processes files, and isnt costing me anything more than the domain registration. I now have a site that i can trigger a github action executing terraform to update the html or css or lambda files if need be. Yeah the code isnt perfect nor is it perfect architecture patterns but it was a fun way to spend a few hours over a weekend to see the power of the service now.
Actually for a static Website why not just https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.basov.lws.fdroid/ or more modern https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.example.flutter_http_ser... ?
Anyway glad you had fun.
https://github.com/termux/proot-distro looks really interesting too and I intend to test it in the future!
I can't read the site - it won't load - but there's one obvious answer to your question: "No. AI did it."
It could also imply that, for whatever reason, the LLM opted for those tools. Therefore there isn't necessarily "reason" in the asked sense.
That's the difference between knowing and understanding. I may read a Math proof and understanding. That doesn't mean I can replicate it or adapting to other proofs (and that's basically the Advanced Calculus tests I used to take when I was in college).
I think that's what happened to you. Someone/something (Claude) provide you with instructions you copy and pasted. You underestood them. That's different from knowing.
I also didn't copy and paste, Claude ran the commands for me, so it was even easier than that.
You are making a lot of assumptions.
No, because they didn't program this or make these decisions, an LLM did.
I didn't write the front page index.html and I don't want to. Sure, I prompted it how I wanted to look, though.
tl;dr I had fun and learned stuff.
i would highly recommend you add guidance on automated data backups, though. my pixel phone went "black screen of death" on me and one of my projects is trapped in there until i can replace the screen.
(And then if you could try out my https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel and report back, that would be even more helpful.)
Edit 20 minutes later: After I posted this I remembered I have access to a https://www.walmart.com/ip/AT-T-Maestro-3-32GB-Ocean-Green-P.... And both LÖVE and my Carousel work great on it! Much less laggy than any other app on that phone. Including the browser.
Btw, this phone is locked to at least have 1 safaricom chip, but no monthly plan is necessary.
Edit: https://www.jumia.co.ke/safaricom-neon-smarta-2-ips-lcd-disp...
It looks 10x more professional. I did it this afternoon, sitting on my couch. I took a raw css/html assets from a very professional saas app, and gave it to claude code. I wrote no code, and did not even review the code. This field is truly on its way to full automation.
He’s likely talking about “Save As”ing or scraping the DOM for rendered HTML/CSS and feeding that to an LLM to convert to actual in app wired up components.
Alternatively, we could take the model makers’ view and say that if they didn’t want their code reused, they wouldn’t have made it publicly accessible on the internet.
What do you even mean by that? Full automation of irrelevant, simple as hell, saas apps? Maybe yes. Everything else that actually needs some thought? Nah, not happening anytime soon - given that no genius with a brand new architecture comes around tomorrow. LLMs just ain't getting any better really. It's just micro steps by now
The models itself, maybe yes. But the agents mixing model input and output with classical programming to achieve whatever you programm them to? That just has started to show it's potential.
Not even talking about AI writing HDL's. They just can't do it and put latches everywhere (they are bad. you should put registers instead)
Annual recurring revenue per month? Which is it
they aren't engaging in good faith.
haters are going to hate regardless.
- did it come with a wall plug?
- do you trust that wall plug to be on 24/7? (I've had terrible ones)
- did you have to buy any extra cables? ("I had them" does not count)
- how much power does it draw?Sure, you can properly buy a phone for not much more, but so can you a Raspberry Pi.
One of the problems is that, if you use an LLM like this, and then post the output, you've probably just laundered at least one other person's copyrighted work (about how to do this kind of thing) through an LLM, and then put your name on it.
The solution seems to be removing the battery and keeping it running on the charger.
That $25 phone has 8 cores and 4GB of RAM.