Dev rebuilds pet project across model generations until a version was finally good enough
generativist · x · 2026-09-17
A developer shares the launch of a long-held passion project: an art character creator for the niche Ars Magica community. He first imagined it while taking a JavaScript class years ago, and it later became his first vibe coding experiment.
Key points:
- Rebuilt three or four times, improving with each new generation of models
- The latest version suddenly felt "just good" — the next model iteration offered no major gains, so there was no reason to delay
- He decided it was finally time to release it
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