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samson-delilah

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Techno-optimist. Entropy-enthusiast. Cyber-connoisseur.
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samson-delilah··on Why Vibe Coding Is Overrated
I don't know if anyone else shares my experience, but for me, vibe coding has been a complete miss.

I'm not sure if it's the way I've been prompting, but for anything beyond the banal, LLMs have completely failed to generate what I would consider to be acceptable code.

For anything with WebGL, high-performance networking, or generally anything requiring taste, I think there's still quite a way to go...

Maybe ironically, but it seems to me that we are still _so far_ from being able to generate something like this: https://www.stripe.press/scaling purely from prompting.

samson-delilah··on Apple Vision Pro hands-on, again
I don't know about others, but personally I feel that the Vision Pro is a solution looking for a problem.

While the 3D / immersive video is surely impressive, and several of the advertised features are truly impressive feats of technology, it feels very much like they will collapse to gimmick-status before long.

I can't picture having this strapped to my face for 8 hours a day. In day-to-day life, I'm just not sure where this fits in... it's like a less-social TV? A laptop where it's awkward to turn around and ask my coworker a question? Generally, the ergonomics of the device just seem... off.

While the device might be good for Apple, I'm not convinced it's good for anyone else.

samson-delilah··on Show HN: Coverage Critic Map – Combined Coverage Map for US Cell Networks
Super cool, thanks for posting this! I don't know if it's included in the original dataset, but would be really neat if the technical tab had any info on latency / network congestion.
samson-delilah··on Show HN: Paint AI – MS Paint without any tools (until AI creates them for you)
This is a super neat idea! Worked really well for creating brush and spray paint tools. Not so much for a marquee / selection tool, however.

Found a UI bug as well - when you refresh the page, then click a tool, try to use it, then click 'load all', it duplicates the initial tool you chose.

samson-delilah··on Show HN: Dygres – The privacy focused social media without ads and algorithms
Hey! This is cool, I like the idea of a supporting a social network via awards/trophies. Curious how you're thinking of positioning this vs. say, Mastodon or Bluesky? (or Ello, etc.)

Also, if I understand correctly, it's supposed to be a remix of Reddit + Twitter ideas?