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Purely reasoned rant of vibe coded clones.

Here are 2 quotes, which give you a pretty good idea about the whole article:

> They’re spending minimum $2K to vibe code a Photoshop competitor when Affinity Photo is free and Photoshop costs $200 a year. Not very smart economics.

and

> Instead of hurling hate speech and bile at thousands of software engineers who lead innovation at large companies (Adobe, Autodesk, Maxxon, Celsys, and others), show them some gratitude for their efforts. They are the engineers who innovate and everyone else follows.

I am surprised this hasn't already existed.

they do contain strong magnets which are, IMO, worth salvaging.

You are left behind. That's like saying: "I am using punch cards for programming and I feel left behind as others are using real-time IDEs" You don't need to vibe code (and even this is only a matter of time as llms become better and better), but not using AI at all will definitely leave you behind.

Interesting, that some words don't start with the letter they represent.

I wonder how much tokens and time where used for the verifying part. Maybe GLM 5.2 instantly found the "solution" to read the screen pixel by pixel, but it could also have been a major token and time consumer.

I've also written a controller for those slave clocks. Instead of an ESP32 I used an ESP8266. [1] and [2]

An even earlier version used an atmega and was powered from batteries [3]

Those slave-clocks are pretty loud. Both versions have a way to pause the clock.

https://gitlab.com/close2/nebenuhr https://gitlab.com/close2/nebenuhr_hardware https://github.com/close2/nebenuhr