alt Hacker NewsI hate how he’s doing the kind of project a ton of people would like to help with, for free and on their own time, yet he’s making an LLM do all the interesting work. He can’t code so he vibecodes the whole frontend. He can’t reverse engineer so he leaves Claude with the uart connection. He doesn’t understand something so he makes an LLM explain it.
With his platform he could easily find a person (or a couple) who could do this work themselves, not only saving him money, but nerdsniping someone into hacking a bike. A win-win for everybody.
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Imagine after mowing your own lawn with a petrol-powered lawnmower, you got some shades from the neighbors for "Robbing the kids in the community a chance for some honest labor. If you don't know how to use the gardening shear, ask the kids to do it instead of using the automatic lawnmower. Would be a win-win for everybody".
It shows that you don't need to know how to code to succeed in this type of project.
As someone who does know how to code, I find the approach to be great, as it can motivate others to try similar projects.
I'm pretty sure if he did that someone would complain that he is using people as free labour to increase his youtube revenues.
It's impossible to do anything on the internet without someone in the peanut gallery telling you you are doing something wrong.
Yep, we're becoming further and further apart by the day.
Throwing shade at somebody for doing a project with the tools they had at hand is so weird.
This sort of thing exactly aligned with the promise of AI (and every "automation advancement" since the dawn of time)! It's another layer of abstraction that allows less technical people to do the thing.