Show HN: I'm a dermatologist and I vibe coded a skin cancer learning app

I kind of love the diy aspect of ai coding.

A dermatologist a short while ago with this idea would have to find a willing and able partner to do a bunch of work -- meaning that most likely it would just remain an idea.

This isn't just for non-tech people either -- I have a decades long list of ideas I'd like to work on but simply do not have time for. So now I'm cranking up the ol' AI agents an seeing what I can do about it.

Same, I've had ideas rattling around in my brain for years which I've just never executed on, because I'm 'pretty sure' they won't work and it's not been worth the effort

I've been coding professionally for ~20 years now, so it's not that I don't know what to do, it's just a time sink

Now I'm blasting through them with AI and getting them out there just in case

They're a bit crap, but better than not existing at all, you never know

>They're a bit crap, but better than not existing at all, you never know

I don't agree. I think because of llm/vibe coding my random ideas I've actually wasted more time then if I did them manually. The vibe code as you said is often crap and often after I spend a lot of time on it. Realize that there are countless subtle errors that mean its not actually doing what I was intending at all. I've learned nothing and made a pointless app that does not even do anything but looks like it does.

Thats the big allure that has been keeping "AI" hype floating. It always seems so dang close to being a magic wand. Then upon time spent reviewing and a critical eye you realize it has been tricking you like a janitor that is just sweeping dirt under the rug.

At this point I've relegated LLM to advanced find replace and Formatted data structuring(Take this list make it into JSON) and that's about it. There are basically tools that do everything else llms do that already exist and do it better.

I can't count at this point how many times "AI" has taken some sort of logic I want then makes a bunch of complex looking stuff that takes forever to review and I find out it fudged the logic to simply always be true/false when its not even a boolean problem.

brother, no one cares. if LLMs made something exist that did not exist previously, they worked. it doesnt matter if you could have done it faster by hand if doing so would have resulted in the program not existing.