I wonder what is the value of such vibe coded programs. It can't be the implementation or engineering aspect at all, when generated by AI. Is it the idea? Should it be a tribute to Craig Reynolds in this case?
As for the value: exploring ideas, techniques and features that would have been impossible to explore completely by hand (if you have a life), and a final artifact that is cool and pleasant to watch in your terminal.
It took weeks for me to code programs with no real value.
I think it's great that anyone with enough ambition can create software now.
Edit: I forked it and added a flake.nix just to see it in action and its awesome.
They always could. How do you think I learned to do it?
So more like a comment or idea shared at a social gathering, that anyone else might build on with their own in conversation. rather than the prior situation of code, where it is as if we were in wonder at the very fact of speech itself
At least that's my optimistic take. Though many might find the same thing a bummer.
There will still be poets, and those who admire them
So what was the value in 1986 of having a Symbolics Lisp Machine calculate the flocking behavior and render the graphics instead of working out all the animation with a slide rule and graph paper then drawing each frame by hand?
Cheating by using a powerful AI programming language like Lisp and expensive Lisp Machine hardware and Genera AI programming environment to automatically perform all the hard work sucked all the fun and artistic expression and human touch out of it. Think of how many pencil pushing number crunchers and pen and ink animators Boids have put out of work! /s
If you're going to be an anti-AI luddite, then be consistent and go all the way.