BrissyCoder

Honesty. WTF is Ladybird? Feel like as a normal guy doing normal software development I'm living in an alternate reality or something.

How is this the top post on my favorite website?

If I found out that I was working with someone with this setup I would a) try to get them fired immediately or b) voluntarily quit.

I do not know how you live with yourself.

I completely agree and I think the fact that he's not being roasted by HN commenters for posting this is a good sign that it is over for this website/forum.

I started using it too when I got sick of using VS Code to look at md. Glad I never had the need to install any plug-ins! Very poor form on their part from what I can tell.

Thank you eSafety Commissioner!

No mention of the fact that Ollama is about 1000x easier to use.

Easier than what?

I came across LM Studio (mentioned in the post) about 3 years ago before I even knew what Ollama as. It was far better even then.

Yeah okay. Thanks for clarifying. I guess I thought when you said "punish" you meant something more dramatic!

Worked in and managed a few "Agile" teams. Never heard of a dev get punished for a bad estimate. Can you describe exactly what you mean?

Yes in good faith I will one hundred percent no-lie wire you 100AUD if you can prove beyond doubt that you had a discussion like that with a Swiss health provider. Not one that you contrive now after the fact - one that happened before this wager.

Spoiler: you didn't mate and you are full of shit.

No I'm just straight up saying this post is fake.

Don't try to bring social justice warrior talk onto a tech forum please.

Yeah sure, as a matter of rule, every time I visit any health provider I am always discussing with the medical receptionist: the software they use, the challenges the business as a whole faces, the tensions between insurers and third parties.

Things that absolutely 100% happen everytime I - a tech guy - experiences when I go to the doctor/phyiso-therapist etc... etc... These are discussions that are happening.

Non-ironically: "yes please" if you want me to believe that any of this happened.

On my last visit i actually casually discussed their IT system with a doctor.

Oh right, cool. Did it have a public-facing web-portal that you were able to "investigate" and that "Thirty minutes in, I had full read and write access to all patient data".

The level of credulity in these comments is immense.

It's pure bs. If you read that blog post and think "this definitely happened", let alone "wow - this is interesting" then I have a monorail to sell you.

Technical Background

The entire application was a single HTML file with all JavaScript, CSS, and structure written inline. The backend was a managed database service with zero access control configured, no row-level security, nothing. All "access control" logic lived in the JavaScript on the client side, meaning the data was literally one curl command away from anyone who looked.

All audio recordings were sent directly to external AI APIs for transcription and summarization.

There was more, but this is already enough to get the idea.

Hmmmm... interesting, now that I have the "Technical Background" I for sure know that this medical app was 100% vibe coded by a Medical Practice in the Real World and exists! (TM)

Yeah because every medical practice I go to, I'm always able to investigate all of their systems.

The timelines mentioned are weird - he spoke to them before they built it? Or after? It's not that clear, he mentions they mentioned watching a video.

Yeah although I didn't comment I found this weird as well. Chronology was vague and ill-defined. He went to a doctors office and the receptionist mentioned vibe coding their patient records system unprompted?

A few days later, I started poking around the application.

What!? How... was there even a web-facing component to this system? Did the medical practice grant you access for some reason?

Yeah I'm back to calling bullshit. What a load of crap. Whole post probably written by an LLM.

Okay. If it's real I apologize.

But in any case it's so lacking in detail and so brief as to make it so uninteresting that it might as well be fake.

Somebody "vibecodes" medical app/system. The app was insecure. Personal info leaked.

Okay cool.

This reads like internet fiction to me. Very vague and short.

"wanky"

Austraian/New Zealander detected lol

I suspect this test gives central values to many test-takers because the internal consistency of the questions has not been verified.

Do you prefer to use:

1. Capital letters

2. Lower-case letters

3. Numbers

4. The characters required for the text I am writing to be correct and legible

I played it on the C64 as an 8 year old. 30 years later I don't understand this code.

Starting around the mid 2010s I think, I started seeing needless use of "Design Patterns" all over the place (mostly by CS graduates). Factories, adapters, observers in places where it was just plain overkill and needless extra lines of useless code.

I started referring to it as cargo-cult programming.

The hard part is figuring out other peoples code.

No. They do proper espresso style coffees with decent beans.

They really do though.

This isn't Reddit.

Sounds like something an angsty teen would post. Get disciplined wrt to diet and exercise and find some worthwhile hobbies/pursuits.

I can’t move out bc I have nothing determining my location

Not sure I understand this one... any insight?

Counterpoint...

I don't get all the hate for Teams. I work fully-remote on a medium sized team. We use Teams for one-one calls, team calls, presentations, screen-sharing, calls to external numbers and I've never had any problems. I run it on a Windows desktop and an Android phone. I've never had performance problems or crashes on either.

Some of the file-sharing/explorer stuff is a bit janky in terms of UI but I don't really use that. TBH it's all fairly seamless IMO.

Coders everywhere suddenly become more productive...

Is there an appreciable difference in quality between a french press and an aeropress?