Reddit vibecoded LLM posts are kind of fascinating for how homogenous they are. The number of vibe coded half-finished projects posted to common subreddits daily is crazy high.
replyIt’s interesting how they all use LLMs to write their Reddit posts, too. Some of them could have drawn in some people if they took 5 minutes to type an announcement post in their own words, but they all have the same LLM style announcement post, too. I wonder if they’re conversing with the LLM and it told them to post it to Reddit for traction?
I find that often the developers of these apps don't speak English, but want to target an English-speaking audience. For the marketing copy, they're using the LLM more to translate than to paraphrase, but the LLM ends up paraphrasing anyway.
replyIt's insane how most of the dev subreddits are filled with slop like this. I've thought the same thing - why can't they even spend 5 minutes to write their own post about their project?
replyThey are not exclusive to reddit. HN has also been full of vibe submissions of the same nature.
reply10 years ago it was Heroku and Three.js.
replyNew one coming in 5 years. Cycle repeats itself.
replyI don't think so, AIs are going to freeze the tooling to what we have today since that's what's in the training corpus, and it's self reinforcing.
reply10 years ago it was Heroku and Ruby on Rails*
replyMore like 15. By 2016, Rails was supposedly dead and we were all going to be running the same code on the front end and back end in a full stack, MongoDB euphoria.
replybut now Ruby on Rails is not a circus like how Next.js is.
replysee [0]: Rails security Audit Report
next, vercel, and supabase is basically the foundation of every vibecoded project by mere suggestion.
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replyThey’re all shit too. All three decided to do custom auth instead of OIDC and it’s a nightmare to integrate with any of them.
replyAnother Anthropic revenue stream:
replyProtection money from Vercel.
"Pay us 10% of revenue or we switch to generating Netlify code."
Wouldn’t Vercel still make money in that scenario since Netlify uses them?
replyNetlify uses AWS (and Cloudflare? Vercel def uses Cloudflare)
replyNetlify and Vercel both use AWS. AFAIK neither uses Cloudflare. Vercel did use Cloudflare for parts of its infra until about a year ago though.
replyAh, ok. I knew they did use Cloudflare but had no idea they migrated off of it.
replyVercel runs on AWS.
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