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Henry Wong @DiscountDimSum

Computational Bio/Security researcher, UW CSE PhD henrycwong.com Albuquerque, NM Joined July 2014
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Andrej Karpathy @karpathy

a year ago

I attended a vibe coding hackathon recently and used the chance to build a web app (with auth, payments, deploy, etc.). I tinker but I am not a web dev by background, so besides the app, I was very interested in what it's like to vibe code a full web app today. As such, I wrote none of the code directly (Cursor+Claude/o3 did) and I don't really know how the app works, in the conventional sense that I'm used to as an engineer. The app is called MenuGen, and it is live on menugen.app. Basically I'm often confused about what all the things on a restaurant menu are - e.g. Pâté, Tagine, Cavatappi or Sweetbread (hint it's... not sweet). Enter MenuGen: you take a picture of a menu and it generates images for all the menu items and presents them in a nice list. I find it super useful to get a quick visual sense of the menu. But the more interesting part for me I thought was the exploration of vibe coding around how easy/hard it is to build and deploy a full web app today if you are not a web developer. So I wrote up the full blog post on my experience here, including some takeaways: karpathy.bearblog.dev/vibe-coding-me… Copy pasting just the TLDR: "Vibe coding menugen was exhilarating and fun escapade as a local demo, but a bit of a painful slog as a deployed, real app. Building a modern app is a bit like assembling IKEA future. There are all these services, docs, API keys, configurations, dev/prod deployments, team and security features, rate limits, pricing tiers... Meanwhile the LLMs have slightly outdated knowledge of everything, they make subtle but critical design mistakes when you watch them closely, and sometimes they hallucinate or gaslight you about solutions. But the most interesting part to me was that I didn't even spend all that much work in the code editor itself. I spent most of it in the browser, moving between tabs and settings and configuring and gluing a monster. All of this work and state is not even accessible or manipulatable by an LLM - how are we supposed to be automating society by 2027 like this?" See the post for full detail, and maybe give MenuGen a go the next time you're at a restaurant!

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Henry Wong @DiscountDimSum

a year ago

Today is one of those days where I want to eat soup and watch some feel good tv show. But I'm at my parents' so I have to be a good son and yell in broken spanish at 99 ranch that I want 3 lbs of pomfret

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Henry Wong @DiscountDimSum

2 years ago

Don't be sad. Be angry. Fight

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Henry Wong @DiscountDimSum

2 years ago

You know how everyone told me a PhD is a bad idea? You also know my crippling inability to take advice?

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Henry Wong @DiscountDimSum

3 years ago

Seeing Taylor Swift on a NFL broadcast was like when Antonio Brown showed up on The Masked Singer

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Henry Wong @DiscountDimSum

3 years ago

My parents found my threads account and follow me so now I'm back here. God forbid they find this twitter

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Henry Wong @DiscountDimSum

3 years ago

It's not that I don't like frat boys, I'm just skeptical of anyone who puts "moderate" on their dating profile

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Henry Wong @DiscountDimSum

3 years ago

"my dog ate my homework" Sir this was a programming assignment

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Henry Wong @DiscountDimSum

3 years ago

@cactusucc Bring a stuffed Pikachu with your on your interviews. You're an engineer, and now you're electric

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Henry Wong @DiscountDimSum

4 years ago

I choose a really good time to work for the gov sector...

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Henry Wong @DiscountDimSum

4 years ago

@samjlord @KaidenHPrice @OdedRechavi A lot of universities make it incredibly difficult to find and switch to a new lab. Especially smaller universities where the politics is especially tricky.

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Henry Wong @DiscountDimSum

4 years ago

@Bladewild_ Proposed middle ground: watch the anime

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Henry Wong @DiscountDimSum

4 years ago

@Noorquacker But if everything was https I would actually have to do my job as a red teamer

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Henry Wong @DiscountDimSum

4 years ago

I figured I'd start working out a lot to get myself out of the ditch caused by a break up. 2 months later I'm still in that ditch but at least I have some resemblance of abs now

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Henry Wong @DiscountDimSum

4 years ago

@academic_exit Bad

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Henry Wong @DiscountDimSum

4 years ago

I was trying to figure out if my mom was pro-weed or not until I remembered she thought going to a Hatsune Miku concert was a gateway to gang activity

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Henry Wong @DiscountDimSum

4 years ago

Haha real funny Tinder matches, I know it's Halloween season but you can stop ghosting me now

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Henry Wong @DiscountDimSum

4 years ago

I came back from a midwest wedding a week ago and everyone is already texting me their app ideas.

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Henry Wong @DiscountDimSum

4 years ago

True self inflicted toxic anxiety is checking your snap story every 2 minutes to see if your ex saw it

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4 years ago

@Bladewild_ Do it, be one with the road

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