I've been building a design tool myself for many years and I like following this space, and also know how hard it is to build an editor (not just the code, but the product design as well). I've been following different subreddits (like /r/vibecoding) to see what people are building, and levels of delusion of capability is high. Lots of junk software that goes nowhere.

This might be the first thing I've seen that's genuinely quite impressive technically, and it's made by someone with domain experience, so even if there's lapses, overall, this seems actually useful.

When I first saw the post, I genuinely thought this was vapor ware because this kind of thing is quite difficult, and even with AI I hadn't seen other people build something. I often say, where's all the photoshop/illustrator/etc. alternatives. Well here's something. The guy did the interview where someone clicked around and actually built something. So it seems genuine.

The app itself has node-based editing, and layers, and timelines like After Effects, Cavalry (now owned by Canva), etc. This kind of procedrual workflow can be really powerful, and if it integrates with plugins (which it should be apt for), it opens up a whole world of possibilities.

Also bonus points for the website being quite nice as well. Really doesn't look vibe coded with gradients everywhere, and uppercase titles everywhere. But it still has a distinct aesthetic that really helps with branding.

- Main thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/MotionDesign/comments/1tbzyvc/i_spe...

- youtube video interview of someone using the app: https://youtu.be/PDDVdsQAX_g?t=489

- Some extra info on author's process: https://www.reddit.com/r/MotionDesign/comments/1tbzyvc/i_spe...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48491059

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

It's using code blocks that have language highlighting, and the appropriate whitespacing.

What's the problem?

It's the swiss cheese model, hidden behind curtains.

This is like a giant sign saying you can buy $2 for a $1.

If you want, you can now change that behavior.

Whether that's allowed by the TOS and what the consequences to that are is also a separate issue. At that point, people shouldn't buy the product if they disagree with the conditions.

I see this argument repeated, and it's made exactly like this where it sets up a strawman and then brings up software.

No one is coming into your computer to repossess your software.

They are either turning off their servers, OR they are ending a subscription.

If you have a bus pass, you can do anything you want with the card. Your chisels being 50 years old, has nothing to do with you being able to ride the bus forever just because you bought a one-month pass.

Am I reading this right... did this number just come out of thin air?

Is this just generated based on the vibes of the AI?

Also, to just add them up and compare them like that is just compounding nonsense on nonsense.

Author makes up a lie.

Then lampshades it away with a colorful non sequitur.

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The alternatives that people praise like golang, have other tradeoffs that are much worse because the async logic is now implicit. Your entire codebase is now a surface area that is at risk of being blocked by waiting on a channel; the the mitigation of this is through responsible use of coroutines, but then you're right back around to extra information about your code that is analogous to colring, except not as explicit as async/await.

I feel like this is a scene from a movie where a character goes "what are you talking about? Look around us, it's already gone" (idk why i am picturing Mark Whalberg for some reason).

But it's all just reddit, medium, twitter (twitter pages, w/e those blog things are).

The internet as we knew it is gone, man.

nah, I am kidding.

But I will say that accomplished names in software that also make bombastic statements against AI are people that were... "opinionated" to begin with, and skirt the line between genius and madness quite often. I am thinking names like Jon Blow.

I'd say that most of the big names probably have nuanced opinions and do their own thing rather than spending time on social media.

I was wondering what the Dow jones stock index thing was...

It took me a minute, but I am guessing this means department of war? It feels strange to see terminology evolve like this over my lifetime.

At first I thought this might've been a 'freedom fries' thing, but I guess it's pretty official now.

I am in that post, defending bun.

I thought for sure the peanut gallery was overreacting. Especially when the concern was absurd - because who would do such an insance thing? Like, at the time I legitimately thought 'no way a project switches over in a few months'. Even as an absurd hypothetical, I couldn't even imagine the prospect of it being done in a matter of days.

Feeling really confused right now.

I don't understand the rationale behind how any project, especially of this magnitude, can seriously build something stable this way.

My consolation - and it could be pure cope - is that at least I am in the same boat as a huge company like Anthropic, and they surely wouldn't be stupid enough to also build their cli tools around something that they saw as risky.

feelsbadman.

Yea, struggling, is one way, but there are others like optimizing for spaced reptition, visualization, etc.

The shift should be from "grind these problems so the pain sticks with you", to "create a mini logic board in minecraft to blow up that mountain". Or, "build mini simulations to show how forces work, and tie them to an interactive applet".

> In case people still don't get it, Jarred works for Anthropic and Bun belongs to Anthropic.

In case people still don't get it, Jarred works for Anthropic and Bun belongs to Antrhopic. This means that people that have an ax to grind against anthropic (admittedly a reasonable position), will take the most antagonistic position they possibly can because of personal bias.

Just constant burying heads in the sand, and believing in models where the prior assumptions are from a bygone era.

I could see people saying this in 2022, but now? No chance.

Chinese models keep demonstrating that SOTA can be approximated for a fraction of the cost. The innovation out of these companies keep showing diminishing returns, with a greater emphasis on the tooling and application layer. Having the right workflow with the right data is more important than having the right model. We could freeze AI now, and I'd bet good money that the current state of things is good enough to - not be first - but competitive for the next few years.

Even if we do end up with a oligopoly situaiton, it'll be less like Microsoft in the 90s and more like Microsoft now where they just give out windows for free, have support for WSL and the focus is on cloud services rather than their OS.

If it gets bad enough, look into Zed. Their tagline is literally "your last next editor".

But this is going full-throttle on enshittification.

WTF happened at microsoft (github, openai partnership, copilot pricing) that all this shit just ramped up to a 11?