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Vibecoding #2

https://matklad.github.io/2026/01/20/vibecoding-2.html
48•ibobev•1h ago

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jacobtomlinson•1h ago
Instructions unclear, Claude just spent three days and millions of tokens rebuilding SLURM from the ground up. /s
lukax•52m ago
Maybe AWS ParallelCluster which is a managed SLURM on AWS.
wiredfool•52m ago
Capistrano? Fabric?
dcre•51m ago
TS + Deno + dax is my favorite scripting environment. (Bun has a similar $ function built in.) For parsing CLI args, I like the builders from Cliffy (https://cliffy.io/) or Commander.js because you get typed options objects and beautiful help output for free.

If you want to script in Rust, xshell (https://docs.rs/xshell/latest/xshell/) is explicitly inspired by dax.

ai_•21m ago
matklad made xshell
dcre•18m ago
Oh! Well that makes sense.
erdaniels•49m ago
Hey ibobev! I've actually been building something very close to box at a snail's pace for 2 years. I built it since I was working a lot with a bunch of raspberry pis where it was better to compile directly on the pi then on my mac but I didn't want to bother to ssh in or lose my local setup. The major difference with what I have so far is that the tool takes a direnv automagical approach to work with multiple machines across multiple projects/directories. It works across docker and ssh without any extra setup other than the tool on the client side.

I just got native LSP working this past weekend and in sublime it's as much as: { "clients": { "remote-gopls": { "command": [ "tool", "lsp", "gopls" ], "enabled": false, "selector": "source.go", }, } }

From what you built so far, do you think there's any appetite in people paying for this type of tool which lets you spin up infra on demand and gives you all the capabilities built so far? I'm skeptical and I may just release it all as OSS when it gets closer to being v1.0.

lightandlight•10m ago
> do you think there's any appetite in people paying for this type of tool which lets you spin up infra on demand and gives you all the capabilities built so far?

(I'm not the author) The easiest way to charge for this kind of software is to make it SaaS, and I think that's pretty gross, especially for a CLI tool.

> I'm skeptical and I may just release it all as OSS

It doesn't have to be one or the other: you could sell the software under libre[1] terms, for example.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software

jasonjmcghee•40m ago
Any time doing hand-rolled on demand spinning up of ec2 instances, be sure they are properly spun down later.

It's very easy to get hit with a massive bill due to just leaving instances around.

dudewhocodes•17m ago
> I am at the tail end of AI adoption, so I don’t expect to say anything particularly useful or novel.

Are they really late? Has everyone started using agents and paying $200 subscriptions?

Am I the one wrong here or these expressions of "falling behind" are creating weird FOMO in the industry?

giancarlostoro•7m ago
Is it FOMO if for $100 a month you can build things that takes months, and then refine them and polish them, test them, and have them more stable than most non-AI code has been for the last decade plus? I blame Marketing Driven development for why software has gone downhill. Look at Windows as a great example. "We can fix that later" is a lie, but not with a coding agent. You can fix it now.
css_apologist•7m ago
this isn't technically vibe coding right? this is just like using llms here and there for details you don't care to learn more about

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