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I have 100% vibecoded software that I now use instead of commercial implementation that cost me almost 200 usd a month (tool for radiology dictation and report generation).
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And yet I notice you haven't mentioned publishing it and undercutting the market. You could make a lot of money out-competing the existing option if what you produced was production-grade software. I'm guessing the actual case is that you only needed a small subset of the functionality of the paid software, and the LLM stitched together a rough unpolished proof-of-concept that handled your exact specific use case. Which is still great for you! But it's not the future of coding. The world still needs real engineers to make real software that is suitable for the needs of many, and this doesn't replace that.
Vibe-coded radiology reports, finally the 21st century will get its own Therac-25 incident.
My partner is a radiologist and I'd love to hear more about what you built. The engineer in me is also curious how much this cost in credits?
Using mystery vibe coded software in a tightly regulated, consequence-heavy environment, that’s so reassuring! /s
Is it _just_ speech-to-text, or god-forbid are you giving it scans and having it write reports for you too?
Wait, so you're a radiologist and you're using software you vibecoded to generate radiology reports for real patients? Is that, like, allowed?