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0 points0points7mo ago0 comments

> my own https://tools.simonwillison.net/colophon collection has grown to over 120

What in the wooberjabbery is this even.

List of single-commit LLM generated stuff. Vibe coded shovelware like animated-rainbow-border [1] or unix-timestamp [2].

Calling these tools seems to be overstating it.

1: https://gist.github.com/simonw/2e56ee84e7321592f79ceaed2e81b...

2: https://gist.github.com/simonw/8c04788c5e4db11f6324ef5962127...

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simonw7mo ago

Cool right? It's my playground for vibe coded apps, except I started it nearly a year before the term "vibe coding" was introduced.

I wrote more about it here: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/21/claude-artifacts/ - and a lot of them have explanations in posts under my tools tag: https://simonwillison.net/tags/tools/

It might also be the largest collection of published chat transcripts for this kind of usage from a single person - though that's not hard since most people don't publish their prompts.

Building little things like this is really effective way of gaining experience using prompts to get useful code results out of LLMs.

kiitos7mo ago

what on earth?

these are absolutely trivial, toy example programs. they've got nothing to do with anything that anyone is meaningfully talking about when they talk about using LLMs for coding stuff.

is this kind of stuff what you're referring to when you comment on using LLMs for programming?

clone, i dunno, https://github.com/minio/minio, and ask the LLM to implement a non-trivial feature -- this is what everyone else is talking about! not "implement a YAML to JSON converter in the browser"

0pointsOP7mo ago

> Cool right?

100s of single commit AI generated trash in the likes of "make the css background blue".

On display.

Like it's something.

You can't be serious.

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