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points by esperent 4 days ago | 0 comments

> But last week I made one in about a half hour that is by far the best I've ever written or used.

There's a discussion to be had about whether we software engineers can still say we made something or not. I think that with sufficient effort put in, we can still make that claim but should be careful about how we phrase it.

I also think that if you put in just 30 minutes of effort you absolutely cannot claim to have written it or had much input into it at all.

[–] delichon 4 days ago

I made it in the sense that a father makes a baby. I provided a little input at the conception and then someone else did most of the work. In this metaphor, fecund uteri have been commoditized.

[–] steele 4 days ago

We all pitched in but only you got to watch

[–] tokyovigilante 3 days ago

Arguably they spent years developing a spec for an app, which the LLM was then able to follow. Most of my pet projects are things I've been working on idly, developing in my head far in advance of actual time spent coding, which the LLMs are able to just go to town on building out very quickly.

[–] sincerely 4 days ago

I think “made” is probably fine, but it does bug me to see “I built/coded…” to describe a vibecoded project

[–] esperent 4 days ago

I'm mostly taking issue with the phrase "the best I've ever written" here after 30m of work prompting Claude.

[–] abstractspoon 4 days ago