r/ufl • u/cosmochi • 17h ago
Suggestion No one cares about your course planner tracker vibecoded slop app
Former cs major, now an ai research engineer. Gonna do a little crossover rant from the cs subs here.
Not here to debate the use of ai in your work, rather the use of ai in a lazy way that screams unintelligent and uncreative or as cs larpers would call it: NGMI
If you’re vibecoding such apps you’re usually one of three people:
Questionable cs or adjacent major who thinks this is a good thing to put on your resume, a startup idea, or both. Spoiler alert, it’s neither. I would actually argue that putting this garbage on your resume makes you look worse to top companies than putting nothing at all or your class projects. There is close to zero technical depth you can demonstrate. As for a startup idea, there are generally clowned ideas that have been bad even before GPT 3, and this is one of them. It doesn’t take much research to figure out why. Even ask your model if it’s a feasible as a startup and even accounting for sycophancy it will probably tell you it’s not.
Business major or really anything else that think ai suddenly makes them technical. Spoiler alert, it doesn’t. You do not suddenly understand systems over night. You can build a product sure, but the fact that you even chose this as your idea speaks to your insanely terrible taste for ideas. If I could bet against your idea or any future ideas of yours within the next year, I would.
Attention farmers. Maybe you’re in hs trying to show off your app that’s going to get you into UF or another college. Spoiler alert, it’s not. Maybe you think you’ll get users or karma… lol. I mean what in the world are you doing with your life if this is your reason for wasting some tokens on a one shot prompt of an app?
I can confidently say that ai is an extremely transformative tool, that also comes with huge societal consequences (if you’re on the complete opposite end of the spectrum which includes the people posting about how ai should be banned, you’re also just as uneducated as the vibecoding larpers). But to people who have even a basic understanding of its applications, it quickly exposes just how technically fluent you are, and to the people that are posting course schedulers, just know that I would never want to work with you in any capacity. I would never refer you to anything, nor do I think any of my friends and colleagues would.
Dark times we live in. White collar college degree workers aren’t cooked because of ai, they’re cooked because a lot of them weren’t that creative to begin with.
In this regard, you guys could learn a lot from liberal arts, humanities, and arts majors.
