Open Source Barware: free, local-first bar inventory software (GPLv3)

massagedpelican 1 hour ago | |

I think it's hard to say one way or another. My guess is the latter, or perhaps the audience isn't even aware it's vibe coded.

I (like many other software folks) are aware of AI-isms in writing, so when I see something that it so obviously AI generated in a project, it's equivalent to a giant red waving flag.

For someone who doesn't interact with LLMs regularly? I have no idea, maybe it sounds great to them. Most non-tech folks I interact with to don't seem to have as well-tuned AI sense, whether it be image, video or text

fragmede 41 minutes ago | | |

> perhaps the audience isn't even aware it's vibe coded.

Why does the audience care if it's vibecoded? So long as it works and does the job, does it matter if the POS software was written by humans or an AI? Does it solve their problem? Does it suck less than the alternatives? Is it cheaper?

apsurd 32 minutes ago | | |

it’s easy to agree with your point on the surface, but then we’d be handwaving a lot of negative subtle signaling. I think because HN is mostly developers on the inside we have to assume that a non-Technical audience might see it differently. That is of course true but one very realistic problem I see is that a vibe coded app with made up testimonials, figures, facts pretty much made-up everything is indistinguishable from an actual company. And we put this entirely on the customer to discern. That’s a terrible precedent, no different from posting falsehood on Facebook.

edit: OK I wrote this before I even opened the page and now that I seen i the entire persona is made up. Or it’s seeded in reality and then AI fills in the 80% to round it out, except it’s on the audience to trust. Sad.

TrajansRow 1 hour ago | |

I think “uncanny” is a good way to describe everything about this tool. I can’t say really whether the app itself is on target or not, but I have a feeling that without an iPad/mobile terminal that it’s DOA anyway.

b--l 1 hour ago | |

It's one of claude models.

We've seen it a lot so it' become extremely grating to us. And it's always the same speech patterns.

I really can't stand it. I don't even think it's intentional from anthropic.

edoceo 1 hour ago | |

I don't catch that as AI voice.

I spend a lot of time with non-tech-industry folks. Since many in the USA have low reading levels and marketing teams keep telling me to write for 6th grade reading level maybe GenPop doesn't even notice this drivel in the middle of all the other advertising drivel?