I don't understand the first "combat" level. There's no real defining pattern separating the good from bad hex strings, so it's just a typing speed contest to type all the enemy patterns, right? What am I missing?
Andoryuuta 14 minutes ago [-]
As far as I can tell, the first combat level enemies all start with "ALERT-" and have exactly 3 digits.
ks2048 2 hours ago [-]
Every vibe coded site is too dark and the text is too small.
christoph-heiss 49 minutes ago [-]
And all the text is grey-on-grey and basically unreadable. Not to even mention accessibility.
mdp 2 hours ago [-]
This is fair, although I ask for it to be dark themed to match what I think was the style of typing game I remember growing up with (it's been a while). Bumped up the font though.
flykespice 14 minutes ago [-]
Every vibecoded site have this same dark look with shining hue-gradient borders, can't wait for the future the entire web be filled with this generic look
progbits 2 hours ago [-]
They all have this rounded box design as well. I wonder where that came from, I don't think it was a predominant style before.
mrkramer 52 minutes ago [-]
I vibe code web apps with Google's Gemini and I think it actually mimics Google's UI and UX because I see similarities between my vibe coded web apps and Google's web apps.
progbits 27 minutes ago [-]
But that's a different style from the these colorful border rounded boxes that I think Claude in particular loves to produce.
darkstar999 60 minutes ago [-]
What evidence do you have that this is vibe coded?
HanClinto 3 hours ago [-]
Nice game!
We made a similar game several years ago for the Pyweek game competition, but there wasn't the fun "letter invaders" style that this one has.
Might be good to limit some of the special operators to give more focus -- otherwise the early levels are a bit too solvable with ".*"
freedomben 2 hours ago [-]
Wow really cool! Genuinely fun, and educational at the same time.
One usability request: after firing a regex, could the text box be cleared? It's not hard to hit Ctrl+A and start typing again, but it does add a bit of friction. (I can send a PR)
Not so useless. In my experience LLMs are about 50/50 on making a regex that actually works and covers the cases you asked it for. Even less when you get into cases needing advanced features like backreferences and lookahead.
croes 2 hours ago [-]
A little bit early to tell.
Let’s wait how affordable, available and good AI is when the companies turn to profit maximization and enshittification begins
cachius 43 minutes ago [-]
You can go local now with qwen 3.5 9B Q4 powering hermes agent at 35 to 50 tok/s with 99 percent tool call success rate on a used RTX 3060 for the price of two months of ChatGPT Pro and never bother. https://xcancel.com/sudoingX/status/2033020823846674546#m
We made a similar game several years ago for the Pyweek game competition, but there wasn't the fun "letter invaders" style that this one has.
https://pyweek.org/e/RegExExpress/
I really like your implementation!
Might be good to limit some of the special operators to give more focus -- otherwise the early levels are a bit too solvable with ".*"
One usability request: after firing a regex, could the text box be cleared? It's not hard to hit Ctrl+A and start typing again, but it does add a bit of friction. (I can send a PR)
https://mdp.github.io/2026/03/17/the-kids-are-alright-and-th...
Let’s wait how affordable, available and good AI is when the companies turn to profit maximization and enshittification begins
This is the worst local AI will ever be. It only gets better from here. https://xcancel.com/sudoingX/status/2033959603944493192#m