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Fiverr Ad Mocks Vibe Coding - with a Singing Overripe Avocado (creativebloq.com) 59

It's a cultural milestone. Fiverr just released an ad mocking vibe coding.

The video features what its description calls a "clueless entrepreneur" building an app to tell if an avocado is ripe — who soon ends up blissfully singing with an avocado to the tune of the cheesy 1987 song "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now." The avocado sings joyously of "a new app on the rise in a no-code world that's too good to be true" (rhyming that with "So close. Just not tested through...")

"Let them say we're crazy. I don't care about bugs!" the entrepreneur sings back. "Built you in a minute, now I'm so high off this buzz..."

But despite her singing to the overripe avocado that "I don't need a backend if I've got the spark!" and that they can "build this app together, vibe-coding forever. Nothing's going to stop us now!" — the build suddenly fails. (And it turns out that avocado really was overripe...) Fiverr then suggests viewers instead hire one of their experts for building their apps...

The art/design site Creative Bloq acknowledges Fiverr "flip-flopping between scepticism and pro-AI marketing." (They point out a Fiverr ad last November had ended with the tagline "Nobody cares that you use AI! They care about the results — for the best ones higher Fiverr experts who've mastered every digital skill including AI.") But the site calls this new ad "a step in the right direction towards mindful AI usage." Just like an avocado that looks perfect on the outside, once you inspect the insides, AI-generated code can be deceptively unripe.
Fiverr might be feeling the impact of vibecoding themselves. The freelancing web site saw the company's share price fall over 14% this week, with one Yahoo! Finance site saying this week's quarterly results revealed Fiverr's active buyers dropped 10.9% compared to last year — a decrease of 3.4 million buyers which "overshadowed a 9.8% increase in spending per buyer."

Even when issuing a buy recommendation, Seeking Alpha called it "a short-term rebound play, as the company faces longer-term risks from AI and active buyer churn."

Comment Not sure I care (Score 1) 56

I don't use cloud based LLMs. Instead, I run a local LLM that serves most of my needs just fine. I haven't measured my actual overall usage, but I do know this: My server idles at 140w and despite running dual 3090 gpus for LLM inference, only peaks at around 500w while generating tokens. Power limiting the cards has a negligible effect on token generation.

Overall, my electricity usage hasn't gone up compared to before I self hosted an LLM.

Comment Re:AI is making real progress, but... (Score 1) 65

Yeah, I don't see why this is such a hard concept. Probably rooted in the capitalist west belief that labor gives humans value, thus a robot able to do any work a human can do is threatening the value of humans.

But imagine if every human just had a labor robot. 1 robot per person, that they could send to perform labor on their behalf while the human just did whatever they wanted.

Comment Re:Been to a university lately? (Score -1, Flamebait) 213

Content of the courses and standard campus fare aside, they probably didn't like you because you exude "asshole" and carry yourself like a cunt. But go ahead and assert "reverse racism" and how they obviously didn't like you for being a white man or some delusional pity party shit. You felt judged because you decided to tell yourself you were judged. A cunt is a cunt, it ain't because you're white.

Now, explain why acknowledging things that you don't personally believe as fact is somehow bad. All you listed were statements you decided you disagree with. You've decided that your white christian self is superior so anything that veers from your beliefs is woke bullshit. Get some help.

Comment Enshittification (Score 2) 26

Oh goodie! A weaker, less featured replacement!

No more "Set an alarm for me"
no more "What song is playing"
Only garbage AI responses that dodge doing anything useful.

Not that they aren't adding features to it, but until it's at least on par with regular assistant, I don't want to even hear about it.

Comment Re: Use the Law of the Excluded Middle, Luke! (Score 1) 133

Humans don't produce art by eating others' art and shitting their own.

And neither do diffusion models. Humans, just like AI, has to learn how to produce art by observing existing art. No human creates art in a vacuum. Humans do have the advantage of learning from the world around them starting from an early age, and AI models can only learn from input images, that much is true, but conceptually it's not that different.

AI learns whole images

AI learns concepts. When you show AI a hundred pictures of a bird, and tell it what it sees is a bird, then it learns that the common features of the images are what a bird is. Meaning it won't associate leaves, the sky, or anything else in the image as being a bird. Though it may make tangential relations to those concepts since many images of birds also happen to includes such things.

AI craps out whole images at a time, humans create images in parts. As they create those parts, they reevaluate what they are creating should look like until they arrive at a finished work.

Except AI does not actually crap out whole images at a time, not any more or less than humans do. You are right that when a human draws an image, they typically draw it shape at a time, since that is how they are usually taught to convey their mental image onto their medium. Image generators however start with a field of noise that has no particular shape and gradually, over many steps of re-evaluating, nudge that noise into the shapes that they've learned represent the concepts they know about.

The AI doesn't do that because it doesn't have that same power of recognition and evaluation

You equate it being "not the same" as not having it at all. The entire point of diffusion models is to break things down into concepts and learn those concepts individually so that it can then create new images based on concepts. Of course, you're welcome to plug your ears and go back to believing your own bullshit, but I guess I shouldn't expect much from someone who calls themselves "drinkypoo".

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