Show HN: Microcosm Industries – Simulation toys and software microcosms

19 pointsposted 7 days ago
by arbesman

4 Comments

nylonstrung

17 hours ago

Very cool- I've been working on a new engine for this type of stuff so glad to see others are interested. Also reading Permutation City right now so cool to see it on your reading list

arbesman

16 hours ago

Amazing! Thanks so much.

1bpp

a day ago

Did an LLM generate this website or stylesheet?

moritzwarhier

a day ago

It does sound and look like it (also the HN submission text...).

I hope I'm not insulting s/1bpp/arbesman here as a person with genuine passion. But to me, the promises "LLMs can prototype your ideas quickly", "LLMs can build from solely a natural language description" increasingly sound like proverbial monkeys-paw-wishes.

Not wrong, but also the opposite of helpful.

I want to be clear here, I'm not talking about coding AIs/LLMs in general, just the particular flow

simple idea ->

working app

All the great apps I've ever used, from the measliest web clients (think of some important form CRUD thing), to the most complex desktop applications (IDEs, DAWs, games):

the moat was and is always attention to detail, and being a good "host" and guide for your users.

This app is so blown up with bombastic text that the opposite applies, I first have to consider what mindset is required to find it interesting.

Seems common.