13 comments

  • ricardobeat 2 hours ago
    Really like the looks of it, but minifying the code to achieve the “400 lines” marketing gimmick is a huge turn-off.

    It’s also a security nightmare, and ensures it remains 100% vibe coded. Would rather have a readable source with an honest line count.

    • StableAlkyne 1 hour ago
      Agreed. It would be one thing if it was a regular bash project that got minified via a script or something, since at least you could tell what it's doing.

      This is just spaghetti. Maybe it's spaghetti that runs, but code of this quality does not engender confidence.

    • sudb 2 hours ago
      I think it's fine that it's minified, code-golf style, but yes I agree that this would be much more convincing and useful with an unminified source.
      • cachius 2 hours ago
        Isn’t unwrapping and commenting just one prompt away?
        • StableAlkyne 1 hour ago
          Assuming the agent doesn't forget or misinterpret anything.

          It would be much better to just have a deterministic minification script.

    • petcat 2 hours ago
      I'm not even sure why it stopped at 500 line limit. If it's just a shell script then why not make it one line?
  • mjuarez 1 hour ago
    Could you post the initial 6KB version? I'd love to have a version that I can actually read and understand. I don't care if it's 2K LOC.
    • TacticalCoder 5 minutes ago
      > Could you post the initial 6KB version? I'd love to have a version that I can actually read and understand. I don't care if it's 2K LOC.

      I don't think that even with APL you could get an average of three characters per line of code to get a 6 Kb file in 2 K LOC.

  • kkovacs 2 hours ago
    I love this. This is the grown-up brother of my one-liner bash+python at

    https://github.com/kkovacs/kkrc/blob/ecff1f65d5ccfa24d5f6695...

    :)

  • petcat 2 hours ago
    your 500 LOC requirement has made this thing completely and unnecessarily inscrutable and unreadable.

    Pass.

  • cachius 1 hour ago
  • tecoholic 1 hour ago
    Kudos. I set on this exact journey a couple of days back and Pi is what I started reading for inspiration as well. I really can't stand the text boxes and the animations of the mainstream harnesses.
  • flog 2 hours ago
    I'd love to learn how to build something like this, but unfortunately the code is unreadable.

    If author could write a heavily commented version that would be amazing.

  • 0gs 1 hour ago
    why the LOC limit? just because?
  • Imustaskforhelp 2 hours ago
    Interested in something like this if the code can be more readable, it would be interesting to see it in languages like lua etc. too in future.
  • hkt 2 hours ago
    I love it. I think I'm going to have fun with this and possibly learn a bit, too. I'm pondering a container based dev environment at the moment and might throw it in with busybox and see how far I get :)
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