JermCAD: Browser-Based CAD Software(github.com)
62 pointsby azhenley3 days ago3 comments
  • bschwindHN3 days ago
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    • seemaze3 days ago
      I know, YAML has that effect on me too!
    • renegat0x03 days ago
      - user reports a bug

      - dev asks vibes for help

      - llm rewrites half of the files

      - it does seem to fix the bug

      - 50 more bugs enter the chat

  • lloydatkinson3 days ago
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    • adastra223 days ago
      On the other hand, this is an example of a new category of tools: things made by individuals scratching an itch, that wouldn't have been made otherwise because the barrier to entry was too high.

      There will always be a need for high quality human-reviewed software, but I think we should celebrate this too.

      • Mountain_Skies3 days ago
        Scratching an itch with a rusty nail risks tetanus.
        • isolatedsystem3 days ago
          You'd be surprised. I have to run RHEL at work, with Gnome. No Albert, no Wofi, no Rofi. Fuck all in the repositories. For months I missed typing Alt + Space, typing filename, hitting enter and having it open.

          One evening with Claude. Done. Obviously it's not perfect, but man what an amazing thing to be able to do. I'm not even a software developer. LLMs are the new Excel.

      • foobarian3 days ago
        This category of projects reminds me of how the aliens in Niven's "Mote in God's Eye" used to work, making instant bespoke things as they went along.
    • swiftcoder3 days ago
      > There was a time people took pride in writing high quality software.

      And other people have always churned out low-quality software that solves a problem they have in a specific way. This is just sort of accelerating

    • Mtinie3 days ago
      From my viewpoint you are conflating software quality with ambition. All software develops iteratively. Tools now celebrated for quality and consistency (commercial and OSS alike) shipped from states where they were neither. Jerm-CAD existing gives it a shot at improvement. The alternative is it doesn’t exist.
    • muldvarp3 days ago
      Was there? Software has always been a "speed of delivery over correctness" discipline. LLMs will just crank that up to 11.