Old Dog, New Tricks

Over two years ago I bought a few domains with the intent of building a tool for keeping track of card game scores. Like many of the best laid plans, I didn’t get around to doing so. Until now.

With the advent of GenAI and “vibe coding” I figured there was no longer any excuse. I spun up Lovable and started prompting. The results? Not bad. Not bad at all. With maybe a dozen prompts and half an hour, you can see the results at onlinescoresheet.net. What was most impressive for me is that I was able to simply ask the model to do Pinochle scoring, and it was able to understand what that meant and implement it without me explaining the rules.

What’s up next? I’d like to generalize the scoring system to be configurable, or at the least add explicit support for a few more game types. I’d also like to dig into the source code to evaluate quality. Should be fun!