It's a tool. You need to know how to use it. But before all, you need to know what you want it to do.

I don't "vibe code". I explicitly tell an LLM what's the output I want. This works great. It's also helped me take care of long-standing low-priority tickets.

For example, I had it rewrite a backend function that reads from DB/returns JSON. But I had it do it "streaming" from the database instead of buffering-and-stringifying the database response. This has been long in my to-do list. I knew how to implement it (as I had done it in the past). I just didn't want to do it because it was a "nice to have" but not a must for our use case. And it's honestly boring to write.

The LLM did it for me in a few minutes.

I also tried "Vibe coding an app" to see how that would work. It didn't. It shows awesome progress at the beginning and then it starts failing. It deletes entire files, rewrites unnecessary parts, keeps looping and burning through tokens so, I honestly don't know what the "vibe coders" are really doing. It just didn't give me any results when I tried it.

don't worry, you will live at the company town and get paid in company scrip

also: FUCK SLASHDOT ADS.

"Scathing execration" comes to mind as a possible first step on the evolutionary chain from the latter to the former.

in a world of "age verification laws" and governments pushing for "cashless", and precedents like Canada freezing protesters bank accounts, yes.

governments are turning ultra fascist everywhere. doesn't matter if they say they're left wing progressive. they're after your internet anonymity and want you to keep your money in banks, mostly to avoid tax evasion.

(cue in europeans saying they're not fascist and i'm a dumb american etc and canadians justifying the bank account freezing because it was aligned with the party's interest)

and pay for it

actually, Javascript IS a stable language. they have maintained compatibility with every quirk in the language.

It's the "ecosystem" built around it that has a completely different philosophy

Because an alarmingly high number of developers believe that, if code isn't being changed, it's dead. And dead code is "VuLNeRaBle".

Have you ever tried anything in Python or JS? Breaking changes are the norm. And if the app broke, it's YOUR FAULT for not reading the changelog, not their fault for changing the API for no good reason (so many changes in JS for "consistency", like, someone developed something and spelled it "colour" and 3 versions later some dev is incredibly irritated that the rest of the spelling of the app is in american english, so they "fix" it for consistency. Yes, they broke thousands of apps out there that had been running for years, but, isn't it nice how the code is now all consistent?

And don't let me get started on shit like React Router, which, last time i checked was in V6 and every version was a full rewrite, completely incompatible with the previous version - because of conceptually different behavior. Imagine doing this SIX TIMES in less than a decade.

Politicians: How do we stop climate change?

Experts: Reduce consumption, limit abuses by the powerful, instate a carbon tax with teeth

Politicians: Unacceptable! AI, how do we stop climate change?

Every single LLM since GPT-3.5: Reduce consumption, limit abuses by the powerful, instate a carbon tax with teeth

Politicians: Unacceptable! Techbros, how do we stop climate change?

Techbros: FEED ME!

toxic loser.

The actual answer is that Discord has a serious problem with teenagers producing and selling explicit images of themselves, and the company is well aware that a single well-timed news article about this fact will obliterate their stock price—unless they have something to point to as proof they've made efforts to address the issue.

I doubt this take would hold up in court. No consumers will have the right to "adult" status without providing the aforementioned biometric information, so the California logic is out, as nobody is being singled out. In Illinois they can simply put a EULA clickwrap agreement before the camera part, which they'll probably already do to cover their asses.

It's not a false dichotomy. Volume is a separate axis. We will always need some hydrocarbon source. Better it comes from circulating carbon than fossil deposits.

We shouldn't pass up opportunities to make things better just because they're not perfect.

Which would you rather have: a world where all gasoline comes from these things using solar panels, or the current environmental nightmare of fracking and cracking? Most people don't need to think twice about it.

believing AI is not here to stay is just delusional. and universities better start adjusting accordingly.

I'm tired of hearing that this is just "a bubble that's going to burst anytime soon". You know what was also a bubble, that also burst? The fucking internet.

And now we can't even imagine our lives without the internet.