Damn though the first argument is some LLM is bad pitchfork level comment… it’s not even about functionalities but about how it’s written.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
why it exists
selling a couch to somebody two streets away shouldn’t require an account on a social network, a profile that follows you around, or handing your address to a company that makes its money watching you. for a long time the only practical way to sell secondhand locally has been exactly that.
Man, the fact the ‘About’ page was plainly written by an LLM doesn’t bode well for “I whipped up an alternative to Facebook Marketplace as a side project lol”.
I can’t believe anyone on Lemmy is taking this uncritcally.
a4ng3l@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 4 hours ago
That makes a huge difference to something that’s meant to be an ongoing service or product rather than a throwaway script or something. Writing code is a very small part of the effort: maintaining the codebase, fixing bugs/security issues, adding features/making any changes that are needed dwarfs that, and for LLM-generated apps, that part is vastly harder. LLMs are great at generating superhuman quantities of code which works (for some definition of working), but the resulting code, being the process not of a mind with intentions and their own understanding of the nuances of the problem and the tradeoffs of solutions, is much more difficult to understand and maintain. Individual LLM edits may look sensible, but the complete codebase is incoherent, with parts mismatching, which often leads to bugs. (This is assuming that the project was developed by someone who at least reviewed the LLM changes before merging them. If it’s “vibe-coded” by using the LLM like a slot machine and not looking at the code, the result is going to be obviously garbage.) In any case, a shiny new vibe-coded web app is unlikely to last in the real world.
pntha@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
it’d be disingenuous if i didn’t admit help from an LLM. i have a compsci degree but i’m not a full-stack developer. i built the website but writing prose isn’t my forte.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I think it’d be disingenuous if you didn’t immediately, loudly disclose it to people you’re expecting to trust you with their financial information – you know, just personally.
pntha@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
i’m not expecting anyone to trust me with their financial information. there is no functionality on the website that allows money exchange. i was looking at probably introducing PayPal in the future for sellers that just want to deliver their items but no money passes through the website, only PayPal.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Then I retract that specific point. I still think any site that expects you to maintain a user account should prominently advertise vibe-coding (or whatever non-dysphemism you could use to make it sound softer).