alt Hacker NewsThings like this used to be a lot cooler before LLMs. It used to show someone actually spent time and worked hard on something mostly pointless. Now you can just point an LLM to it, and be done. Projects like this have lost their magic.
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I’ve been using LLMs for a while now and this particular idea hasn’t occurred to me. So yes - I still do appreciate the creativity.
I don't want to be presumptuous, but people that say this have rarely really ever built anything mostly pointless. But maybe you can prove me wrong and point me to your github.
Building pointless things is often about prototyping some idea, seeing if something can be done, or just messing around. It's never been about wrestling with OS APIs or grokking out-of-date docs. LLMs handle all this stupid boring stuff so you can do something cool that you think is cool.
I totally disagree. I respect efforts made without LLMs, but if a person is enabled by one to express their creative ideas like this, that's awesome too.
I dunno, xsnow was just as boring in 2006 as it is in 2026. Pointless apps are made and forgotten all the time, I don't think it's a bad thing.
So proof of work adds value to you. I'd say don't dismiss an idea just because an LLM helped do it. The idea is all that matters anymore.