Vibe coding

[olyclimber]

Anyone out there "vibing"?  I just started playing around with Claude.   Before I was thinking hiring out for a developer to handle creating new functionality (and restoring some things we used to have).  But Claude has me thinking otherwise, and maybe we can keep it inhouse. The most immediate need is for a Trip Report Search capability.

Search all the Trip Reports by:

• Area/TR Forum
• Author/Submitter (V2 can include other party members if they are tagged into the TR)
• Month or Month Collection (Season)
• Date Range (Radio button so time/date would be radio button/either but not both)
• Keyword
• Photos-Yes/No
• FA/FWA/FFA ....maybe just start with FA yes/no
• ?

 

My day job has me pretty busy to the point of exhaustion on many days, and my free time is often trying to find time to either get exercise for myself and my dog. I do plan on retiring at some point in a couple years (though that could happen sooner, as that is the way the world is these days).  So I have limited time, which will change in the future.  But for now....

Anyone else trying out Claude or another model? I'm considering purchasing Claude right now.  I'm also looking a one of Jetbrains offerings, though I'm still researching that.

[olyclimber]

Unbelievable....this is version .01.  It has issues.  But I just made this in an hour using natural language prompts.

https://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/trsearch/

Does it work well?  Not really. But as a POC pretty cool.  I'm not a coder.   

I ran out of tokens for the day, so I'll pick it up the next time I have time.

[psathyrella]

Chatbots are terrible at lots of things, and are imposing untold externalities on the world but, yeah, they're really fucking good at helping humans write instructions for computers. I have to use claude code for work coding and it's incredibly helpful. You of course have to check things, and it can be super dumb, because it does not actually understand anything. It is rearranging words from the internet, not expressing some internal representation of the world. But it's super useful. I haven't used the free version since work started paying for it, but in the past there was a big difference in how good they were.