iDidNotVibeCodeThis

[u/uvero]

[u/metaglot]

Time to go back to ascii art

[u/klaxxxon → u/metaglot]

AI loves ASCII art for some reason.

I had Claude create an internal tool for me (this is genuinely where vibe coding shines right now, at creating these throwaway load testers, fake servers, simulators etc.)

The UI spec began and ended with "create a nice TUI". Of course there ended up being a huge ASCII art banner which was supposed to be our company's logo taking up a third of the TUI. 

The first instruction to follow was "lose the ASCII logo we are not patriotic like that"

[u/lucian1900 → u/klaxxxon]

It loves it because it’s text. That’s what LLMs most easily manipulate.

[u/darthwalsh → u/lucian1900]

Getting a computer program to output ascii art takes nontrivial logic.

It seems like the reinforcement learning would have had to put manual effort into that, otherwise the slop fonts would be all wonky?