We're talking qualitatively, but at completely different scales. The comment chain I replied to posits an equivalence between trusting a complex instruction given as an English language prompt to an LLM code generator, versus trusting a chain of well documented API calls with deliberately restricted semantics. It's completely different.

Even when you add in the possibility of deception, there is no equivalence of trust. Vibe coding intrinsically doesn't follow the expected engineering patterns and practices which are used for large projects. Yet these patterns facilitate the investigation, and discovery, of deception. Without them, the task of verifying a system is orders of magnitude more difficult.

Thanks for the (two) replies. Yes, I was confusing bytecode and machine code, or rather, I was thinking of two potentially different machine codes with isomorphic instruction sets, but potentially different resource availability (RAM, number of registers).

Speak for yourself mate. From where I'm sitting, the Chinese look pretty sane compared to you. But keep making shrill noises and telling us how everyone you don't like is evil, I'm sure it will just turn everyone against you.

If jwz were reading this, he'd agree with you *righteously*!

What if you translate from one bytecode to another? eg into MMIX bytecode.

People didn't like embedded FLASH first.

You have to remember that data science majors are not programmers. They don't care about procedural correctness and are much too green to understand how their data gets into a CSV. They just want to apply some recipes they were taught in their last year of school.

This means that python/basic IS the right tool for the job, if the majority of the worker population has those characteristics.

In the case of R, it's because it's the only place where high quality research level statistical algorithms are built en masse (ML libraries in python are not a substitute, they tend to be built by non-subject matter experts who don't even know that there are corner cases)

You can trust your OS and hardware because it wasn't vibe coded.. Try again.

It would help with these sorts of extradition problems of criminals.

Hahahaha! In a civilized world, maybe the USA should agree to recognize the ICC?

*for starters*.

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Depends. Are we including five fingered discounts?

AI may have found its niche as entertainment in its own right

Some of us have no sense of humour, you insensitive clod!

Does that make you smarter than a superhuman AI?

Let's not conflate speculations on the implied mechanism used for providing summaries by AI with requirements of correctness of summaries implied by consideration in a legal service agreement.