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patriceckhartyesterday at 10:03 AM1 replyview on HN

zot is a coding agent harness. not a data vault, not a pacemaker, and not a life-support device in any medical sense.

Ive been coding for almost 20 years, and for the past few with Go. Nobody would believe that a project of this scale or even a much smaller one could be pulled off, halfway stable, over a couple of days. Not even with a blueprint or two in hand. Thats why it matters, and its totally fair, to point out when something is largely vibe-coded. "Vibe slopped" is meant more as a joke. The essential parts of the code I actually understand. Some of them I modified and overhauled myself.

zot is a learning project not production logic with peoples sensible data or lives depending on it. ;-)


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sshineyesterday at 10:48 AM

I get the joke, and I appreciate it.

As someone with 20 years of professional coding experience who vibe-codes certain tools in my current stack, I really get it.

But I'd still remove it from the front page, it just reads like you admit it sucks. Which vibe-coding a dev tool doesn't have to.

Judging from the animation, you actually cared to test the TUI quite a lot. (I've been vibe-coding TUI components without making an actual harness.)

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