Vibecoding: a beginner's guide

RaptorSA said:
I still need to go through some of the original posts....
But, I thought I'd share what I've been able to "vibe code" in the last 2 or 3 days.
What started as just an experiment became a bit of an obsession.

It's a website for sensor data in our complex that I'm going to suggest as a hosted service/site so we can all see what's going on, instead of people having to constantly send whatsapp messages on the local group.

Architecture (some of it irrelevant now since we're just doing HA API calls):

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I'm no longer using Tuya Web, I switched to Tuya local for the main purpose of this project, the 8-in-1 water quality sensor, I had about 50 problems to solve doing that but it finally started working. Also.. I almost gave up just because of that. But finally figured it out. Also, the pH sensor values are f**ed, that's just calibration waiting to happen, will be doing that ASAP in the next few days when I get closer to the final sensor installation.

The municipal water sensor is currently just sitting in some dish water, even with "vibe coding" doing most of the heavy lifting, the boilerplating took me a long time to solve (I used to be a pretty isolated contractor douing mostly back-end DBMS systems so proper Github code managament & collaboration etc. has always been something I suck at).... that said, it's my first "real" modern app and the amount fof s**t I've learning doing this (as an old school SQL data engineer) is priceless.

Current prototype website design, the real-time sensor updates looks awesome, thanks god I don't have to code that s**t myself:

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I love how OpenAI (not using codex vscode integration, yet) could take screenshot designs I liked from Home Assistant using a pool-monitor-card that was just released a few days ago and translate that into HTML and CSS to look even better that the original HA design (once I tweaked it using some prompting)..

Just to put that in perspective, this the the orignial HA design I fed it, prompted correctly, it normalized the design, added sensor specific paraneters to dial in the range for each, then went ahead and created dynamic code that would give a "glow" to the sensor value bubble depending on its position:

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Now excuse me, I have a brand new ESP32 Dev board to hook up.... god I'm so going to get fired....
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What sensor are you using for orp and ph plox I want to use that on my fish tank
 
Foxhound5366 said:
Bravo on posting an actual project! Mark my words, in a year we’ll have the MyBB Vibecoding Olympics, to reward and profile the best vibecoded projects.
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Err. I literally posted one a page or two ago :P
 
semaphore said:
What sensor are you using for orp and ph plox I want to use that on my fish tank
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I grabbed one of these:
www.geewiz.co.za

Yieryi WiFi Tuya Smart Water Tester

Smart WIFI Multifunctional Monitor Meter Aquarium Water Quality Tester Swimming Pool Meter Digital Display
www.geewiz.co.za www.geewiz.co.za

Getting all the sensors on it to work with the localtuya integration on Home Assistant was one of the most frustrating things I've ever had to do. Funny enough, if it wasn't for ChatGPT I likely would have given up.

The standard Tuya HS integration only sees the Temp sensor on the device. And once I managed to jump through 300 hoops on the Tuya IoT Developer website to get the device key for localtuya it didn't pick up the device sensors so I ended up having to add them all manualy.

That was a real k@k few hours to get that dialed in.

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Scary_Turtle said:
I dont know much about that side but it makes sense.

I get it I have had to work with excel spreadsheets that had 1000s of lines and numerous pages. I can program somewhat - decent in most languages but learning all the syntax to pull stuff from excel and get it all working or going through all that data would take a long time.

I vibe coded it in an afternoon where I push a button and viola all the data is processed. For my personal use lekker, I am sure there are plenty of flaws but no harm, when the same thing is going into prod its a different story.
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I did something similar. Since I work for a tiny company everything is manual. Sometimes I need to look up a serial number across a directory full of .xlsx files.

Initially I had AI make something in Python to iterate over the files and search and output the filename(s) that contain that serial number. Then I asked it to make a Go version with a nice GUI.

The Python one I understood mostly as I have played with it and HTML+CSS before. The golang version I didn't understand, I wanted to see if it would work and if it's quicker. Compiled it into a little .exe and gave it to my colleague that has the same problem once in a while.

All internal, no risk of damage.

Been learning some PostgreSQL on freecodecamp so I can use that as a foundation to build something a little better suited, and much quicker, to do the job.

Then, I was not particularly happy with the wake-on-lan options available on Windows so got a CLI program made to turn on my computer at home when I need to access it from time-to-time.

I like CLI-based things to make life easier so I'm learning a bit of Go here and looking at Rust and C/C++. TUI programs are my favourite. I just discovered Windows has edit earlier today. Now I use that instead of Notepad for all the random .txt files I make during a normal working day.

It's essentially what plain old notepad used to be without all the weird things that's been annoying me lately.

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TStringList said:
This sh*t is tied to a crypto coin so be careful when using it.
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There seems to be a new governance/funding model for open source projects around creating a token and allowing token holders to vote on the project decisions. I was watching a video yesterday about Agent Zero that was discussing something similar.
 
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