Vibe coding the MIT course catalog
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·August 6, 2025r3a1d33p
Lots of school infrastructure is decades old. I bet lots of students can better manage the IT than the IT department. The only issue is security and privacy. Not sure if there is a balanced solution for self-governance.
stokehacker
SIPB is the student run hacking club at MIT (https://sipb.mit.edu/)
ncr100
Advice: capitalize the S in Courseek, to emphasize the misspelling as intentional.
And, AWESOME WORK. This is truly "making things better", which is my favorite What Does An Engineer Do saying.
daedrdev
I've heard of people making reminder bots for schools that give you a short time slot to accept getting off a waitlist before it moves to the next person
stackdiver
tl;dr the app is at https://chuanqisun.github.io/courseek/
I also wrote a short piece reflecting on vibe coding this app and musing on the broader implication of building non-scalable software. https://stackdiver.com/posts/non-scalable-software/
My understanding is you're allowed to automate the discovery of classes as much as you want. but as soon as you try to automate signing up for them you're gonna get in trouble.