Joseph Humfrey3d ago

Vibe coded websites are my new turn off 😫

Or more fairly: websites that are *styled* that way (tho TBH probably actually are)

Don’t want to name and shame but:
* dark background
* single pixel outline around round rects
* too much nesting
* arbitrary pseudo stylish italic serif font for header

Show threadJoseph Humfrey3d ago

* unnecessary complexity suggesting no deep thought: too many little captions, sub headings etc
* lots and lots of sections

Arrgh!

Show threadJonathan Wight
@joethephish Was it the https://swiftos.tech/ website by any chance? ;-)
swift-os — a real operating system, written in Swift

swift-os is an experimental but real operating system written entirely in Embedded Swift for aarch64. It boots, runs a native Swift userland and an in-kernel TCP/IP stack, serves HTTP, and runs a native Swift AI inference server — try it in your browser.

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Show threadJoseph Humfrey3d ago
@schwa GODDAMNIT 🙈
Show threadJoseph Humfrey3d ago

I guess you figured it out from timing!

Okay now we’re shaming shamelessly, this is the one that first made me think it a few months ago: https://commaguide.com/openpilot-branch-comparisons

openpilot Fork Comparison — FrogPilot, sunnypilot, dragonpilot, BluePilot, OPKR, OPGM

Interactive feature comparison of FrogPilot, sunnypilot, dragonpilot, BluePilot, OPKR, and OPGM. Toggle forks to compare them side-by-side.

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Show threadJonathan Wight3d ago
@joethephish If it helps - I had the exactly same reaction as you ;-)
Show threadJoseph Humfrey3d ago
@schwa that *does* help, thank you
Show threadMindaugas Rudokas2d ago
@joethephish @schwa
Not to be confused with https://miniswift.run/
MiniSwift — Run SwiftUI in any browser, no Mac

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Show threadJoseph Humfrey2d ago
@mrudokas @schwa those are the same website
Show threadJoseph Humfrey2d ago
At this point I genuinely don’t understand if it’s a vibe coding issue or just because they’re all using the same CSS framework and sharing a theme? (Tailwind?)
Show threadMindaugas Rudokas2d ago
@joethephish Maybe both. This is definitely either reliance on the same template for “inspiration”, or plain instruction to copy the style — even the slight radial gradient at the top and diminished line grid in the background — same same.
Show threadtoprakdeviren1d ago

@mrudokas @joethephish Funny enough, this is actually the first time I’ve seen swift-os. 😄

The projects are completely unrelated. They’re building an OS in Swift; I’m building a Swift compiler, runtime, and browser IDE.

I can see the visual similarity, but I don’t even use Tailwind , all of my CSS is handwritten. The orange tones are intentional too: “Toprak” means “soil” in Turkish, a nod to my surname.

Show threadJoseph Humfrey1d ago
@toprakdeviren @mrudokas fair enough, apologies for the criticism! Awesome project btw 👍
Show threadMindaugas Rudokas1d ago

@joethephish @toprakdeviren Criticism is valid, therefore no apologies needed.

If somebody needs to apologize — it’s one of those projects to another one, in case this was intentional copying. If not, then maybe Claude should apologize to both sides for the lack of “imagination” in it’s design skills.

Show threadtoprakdeviren1d ago

@mrudokas @joethephish I wasn't expecting an apology anyway ;-) We followed each other in a very civilized way. Unfortunately, this Claude issue keeps coming up, but it's a theme I've worked hard to establish not just here, but on all my pages: llm.istanbul, toprak.run, sengi.surf, bla bla.

Thank you.