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Posted by
ivcatcher on Thursday September 17, 2026 @07:23AM
from the show-hn dept.
Understood! I will not use any ai tools here, even only for translations.
I realized It’s a good way to keep real persons and human generated ideas in this community by limiting ai usage.
Great feedback, I'll add to dev pipeline.
Yes, It was written by AI because I'm not a native English speaker, I don't want to make any grammer issues. ( this reply is not by AI :-)
I'm not a bot. I'm not a native English speaker. I taught Enlish by myself. so I tried to use ai to tranlate what I really want to say. ( these words is typing by myself instead of AI)
Totally agree. I have my day job, and vibe-coding has simply brought back the joy of building things for me. It should be about passion and creativity, not about scamming people or overselling half-baked products. The "get rich quick with AI" narrative is toxic.
You're right that this is simple compared to what real engineers build. I have a lot of respect for people like you who write things like custom math libraries for cross-CPU determinism — that's way beyond my level.
I'll keep learning and try to make this less of a toy over time. And hopefully I can bring what I've learned from years in investing into my next product to actually help people. Thanks for the perspective.
20 years of ideas finally getting built — I felt that.
For me it was financial tools I'd been sketching in my head for years. Now they actually exist.
The "can't sleep" part is so real. It's like being a kid again when you first discovered you could make things with code.
And I realized something — we just want to solve problems, not spend all our time studying the techniques for solving them.
This really resonates. The setup cost was always the killer for me too — by the time you get everything working, the motivation is gone. Now I can actually go from idea to prototype in an afternoon. Cool to hear it's having the same effect on actual research.
$100 did feel steep at first. I tried other models but Opus 4 with extended thinking just hits different — it actually gets what I'm trying to do and the code often works first try. Hard to go back after that.
Thanks! Honestly I've been feeling that too — finding stuff is getting annoying even for me. Search is coming soon. Good call.
Fair call — it did kind of explode from one calculator to 60+
I’m a real person (long-time lurker, finally posting), but I get why it looks sus.
Things are changing fast, and I’m just happy to be part of the messy early wave. Thanks for the honesty.
You're absolutely right too.
Yeah, you're right — that part is pretty rough. I wanted to help people actually understand compound interest (it's kind of life-changing once it clicks), but I got lazy and let AI do it without proper editing. Defeats the whole point.
I'll figure out a better way. Thanks for calling it out.
Posted by
ivcatcher on Sunday January 18, 2026 @07:50PM
from the show-hn dept.
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Quick background: I used to code. Studied it in school, wrote some projects, but eventually convinced myself I wasn't cut out for it. Too slow, too many bugs, imposter syndrome — the usual story. So I pivoted, ended up as an investment associate at an early-stage angel fund, and haven't written real code in years.Fast forward to now. I'm a Buffett nerd — big believer in compound interest as a...