Topic: vibe coding an illegal clone until it's done or amazon tells me to stop freeloading

loconav started this discussion 3 months ago #130,237

i'm on a real kick for doing webdev work, so my side project is... more of the same.

a couple days ago, amazon recently launched its own AI-assisted code editor, kiro. it's literally just VScode but with claude code built in, and a bunch of agentic/MCP stuff that will manipulate files for me. it's got a free period where it's got something like 500 interactions/day for free, until they decide for this to not be the case. could be any day, i have no idea how long that plans to run.

the thing that caught my eye about kiro is that as well as doing your typical chatbot, it offers a feature where you can lay down a development plan for your chatbot to follow more strictly. you'll write in an idea, and it'll generate, in order:
- a base requirements list
- a design document
- a list of tasks to complete

and then it will go rush off to complete them. i actually really like this, i tried "vibe coding" a game in pyxel a couple weeks ago, and it was not great - i really don't care for the back and forth where you have a single idea, and the bot does it, then another, and the bot does it. bulk-writing down tasks treats my brain a lot better and it seems like the AI bot is also pretty good at handling it.

i spent my teens doing this shit, time to spend my late 20s doing it.

my restrictions are:
- no original code of my own will be written
- editing of ai-generated code will be limited to just reordering existing code, mouse only
- there is a single copy of the AnT malaise-blue stylesheet to refer to when it comes to styling
- i go until amazon kiro has a pricing plan or i decide that's enough

along with that, my stack choices are:
- nextjs + react
- payload backend

mostly because it's what i'm using at work, and though i've really been eyeing go + templ + htmx, learning a new language like go through vibe coding seems like a recipe for a bad time.

that said, i already burnt through today's credits. so let's get right into that.

the first choice it made for me was this. you're directly confronted with the unique ID mechanics of the site, it actually generates a restore ID passphrase immediately upon visiting the site, rather than storing your UID and password like ATBBS + co do. i think that's pretty cool.

it looks crazy generic, also. holy shit do i hate the way the modern web looks. i hate white-on-white only delineated by blurred box-shadows it all just looks so fucking generic and soulless. even after telling the bot to stop doing that, it still does it sometimes. not a fan.

Killer Lettuce🌹 !HonkUK.BIE joined in and replied with this 3 months ago, 55 minutes later[^] [v] #1,397,649

Oh. I thought that vibe coding was when you code with a vibrator in you.

Dr Who joined in and replied with this 3 months ago, 4 hours later, 5 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,397,655

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