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lelanthrantoday at 6:21 AM1 replyview on HN

I think this product demonstrates the atrophying of thought that results from too much LLM usage: design was obviously a long back-and-forth with a sycophantic LLM.

I find out what all my local servers are by `cat /etc/hosts`, because I put them in there. They run using an entry in the nginx config.

For short-lived stuff I don't even bother with that, I just use `whatever.localhost`.

If there was no LLM, author would have put a little more thought into this, maybe did a google search, and realised that all he needed were two shell scripts.

The more you use LLMs, the less you actually think

> The real annoyance is that it wasn’t just one machine. It was layers.

> I wanted a simple launcher for all the things that aren’t traditional desktop apps. Not Finder, Alfred or Raycast.

The entire damn article is like this - why would I trust software to run on my local machine when it was written by someone who did not even take care writing a blog post? How much care would they have possibly put into reviewing their vibe coded slop if they couldn't even bother to review their blog post?


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firefoxdtoday at 6:27 AM

That was my exact post a couple days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47936315 (didn't get much traction)