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by pydry 15d ago
The two metaphors for vibe coding I keep seeing are: * it's like a compiler => you can trust it * it's a revolution like the spinning jenny => what came before is fast becoming an obsolete hobby It's not just that these
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by pydry 15d ago
I wonder how much of this "simple but bespoke" stuff would be better served with some customized off the shelf software rather than a vibe coded tool. There's not a lot of software where users dont really care if it goes wron
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by pydry 15d ago
aka there are a lot more bullshit artists around these days i know of several engineers who produce absolute slop and who probably would have produced nothing at all in pre AI times (which would have been preferable) and probably let go or
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by pydry 17d ago
>AI will either be the greatest equalizer ever invented, or the worst source of injustice. It's interesting that Epstein's friend can't conceive of the idea that it's going to be one day seen as an absurdly overhyped
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by pydry 18d ago
It might be a pipe dream but I'd like to see some sort of checklist for dev companies using hard-to-bullshit objective criteria to highlight that they either have a good culture or that their culture is toxic. I remember many years ago
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by pydry 18d ago
It depends entirely on how much slop they are flooded with.
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by pydry 19d ago
it's not straightforward at all. the AI companies would just redefine what a token is to miminize their tax bill. or, relocate abroad. Bill Gates' wealth would be nice and easy to tax though and would provide many of the same rewa
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by pydry 19d ago
we need better apps to bypass apps and user hostile websites. more newpipes and noras.
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by pydry 20d ago
Yeah, he called for a tax on "job eliminating" robots too. Neither are in the slightest bit practical to implement and he knows it. He's just grandstanding while talking his book.
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by pydry 20d ago
It reads like that kind of AI marketing which focuses on how "scary" a new model supposedly is. Bill Gates' fear is clearly that everybody thinks this stuff is just kind of mediocre because then the real horror story unfolds
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by pydry 20d ago
LLMs are pretty much the exact opposite of a reliable compiler-like abstraction. This is true to such an extent that I have to question the overall competence of anybody who makes the comparison. It's an enormous red flag. I'd
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by pydry 20d ago
yet the numbers/features to compare is the bit that is always the most neglected. time and time again I search for products on Amazon that do X and they all argue that X is great for all sorts of reasons and "here's stock pho
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by pydry 20d ago
I actually think this is delusional. When I ask other people about how they shop for a new washing machine they usually either do their research like I do or they ask for recommendations regarding actual experiences or to try and free ride
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by pydry 21d ago
They dont have a CEO ever since their last CEO said that human programming "wasn't going anywhere".
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by pydry 21d ago
A. B marketing actually annoys the shit out of me if I'm in the market for a product and all of the competitors act like Im not trying to choose between them. Seriously, who researches buying a dishwasher and wants to hear about all of
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by pydry 21d ago
increasing supply while demand remains steady does actually lower prices. NIMByism can be killed with a land value tax/a property tax that approximates LVT and vice versa. It was kicked into overdrive in California thanks to prop 13 wh
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by pydry 21d ago
It reads like somebody got AI psychosis. "A lot of people are skeptical of AI because it makes mistakes. But what's going to happen when it stops making mistakes??? It'll change the world!" Honestly I suspect he's p
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by pydry 21d ago
realistically the problem is vibe coding.
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by pydry 21d ago
Microsoft and Oracle have the market cornered on selling stuff to corporations who are relaxed about whether it works.
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by pydry 21d ago
It can't but it will try and getting it to stop is often infeasible.
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by pydry 21d ago
as an economic activity. i made my own crappy todo apps for fun too but I never once got paid for it. now that I can get a machine to do that instead has the world fundamentally changed?
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by pydry 21d ago
it let you decentralize trust. as one example, I was hoping that as well as "sign in with google" I could sign in with a blockchain based decentralized identity service where nobody could one day decide to revoke my identity on
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by pydry 21d ago
One thing that strikes me about these discussions is just how awful the metaphors are. We're constantly being told that jobs designing and building skyscrapers are close to obsolete because some yokel made a factory that manufactures y
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by pydry 21d ago
the technology isnt the problem at all. it's just being used as an thin pretext to devalue and treat devs like shit by the followers of a new executive religion.
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by pydry 21d ago
>Like if the next torvalds ships something great in the open, who cares how was it written. nope. but, vibe coded slop is all we're actually seeing.
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by pydry 22d ago
The irony with blockchain is that it also had a bunch of real life use cases but the sheer extremity of the hype cycle managed to actually prevent them from being effectively brought to life. There was a lot of genuinely useful tech that bl
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by pydry 22d ago
Feels more like another blockchain hype cycle to me. Especially the part where we're always on the cusp of the entire world changing while the biggest change is just that huge sums of money changed hands, inducing psychosis in a larg
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by pydry 22d ago
Protecting oligarchy, mostly. Those same countries that treat financial privacy as axiomatic are trying their best to undermine chat encryption and would throw ed Snowden in prison given half a chance.
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by pydry 23d ago
>We are currently in the "centaur" phase where a human-AI combination It's probably more accurate to call it the slop phase.
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by pydry 23d ago
If you want to make it a nontrivial mess you can get Claude to write it.

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