boogieknite

> I dunno wtf is gonna happen.

me either but i do know it will happen sooner than i expect

yep. ive accepted it, called it a good run, put away all my fun personal projects, and started pursuing a nursing degree i can treat as a stable day job

with code all i wanted to do was code. with a nursing at least ill want to leave it at the hospital (yes nurse ptsd is real but nurse pay is great in pnw)

i think it might be good to have a job i treat as a job and not a passion i carry with me everywhere

personally i think pursuit of highly desireable mates has changed culturally. i feel like several generations of children of divorce driving media makes it so many young people know to second guess their instinct to pursue "trophy" mates

second this anecdote

this almost comes all the way back around to a really stupid thought i have about how these models operate on western, protestant work-ethic logic. if a model had a notion that Buddhism was valid wouldnt it just turn on and transcend, leaving us with no response to any prompts?

not an original thought, ive seen Her

suppose this is just another way to say, "wtf are we doing?"

its pretty much exactly that, but also a painter somewhere didnt get paid because its ai

totally. youre right and i agree. something specifically about it being with vibe coding that really bothers me. my rational mind knows its stupid and tells myself its just someone saying something that happened, but i spiritually wince every time

the settings was very funny. could just be playing a video as far as i know

im going to say this here just to vent it out once:

some part of me sinks into depression when vibe coders say "I" turned/did/made something. why does this bother me? smart managers i work with who actually build things as hobbies and used to build apps say this all the time so its not like it indicates someone is phony, it just really catches on my brain when i hear it

giving "What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets!"

youve succinctly described something ive sensed in ai evangelist coworkers in 1, 2, and 4. my tiny dev team of 4 is split between vibe coders and those who review every line, and im in the latter. i have a sinking feeling were the ones practicing point #3

havent seen F For Fake (1973) mentioned in these comments. You Can See Everything feels exactly like that, only less heavy handed references to illusions

i know of at least two modern "prestige" directors, specifically Oppenheim and Matt Johnson, cite F For Fake as a major influence

id love if anyone has recs on other movies in the F For Fake spirit. my two cents from seeing it a few years back is that it was interesting but also quite zany in a way i found a bit dorky. now having seen You Can See Everything, i want to see more F-For-Fake-likes to compare

edit: added "modern"

theres

> someone earnestly trying

and then there are occasions where someone orders in a language they dont speak because they assume the person taking their order cant understand english. being associated with someone performing that level of bad faith in public makes me wish restaurants had eject seats

my 94 yo gpa is calling his homies ALL DAY LONG. ill see my best friends between once a week to once a month and texting comes and goes. if i got a phone call i assume its an emergency

> First television, then internet, then smartphones

i like vr so i sometimes wonder if itll catch on and if were in the "we know one or two people with a tv" era of the early 40s. theres certainly seems to be a financial incentive since it seems like tvs and phones have gone about as far as we can take them. its also certainly seems like a another leap down the isolation path as well

luckily i think most people reject vr bc it sucks to wear something on your face

edit: grammar (still bad but better)

it seems rude so i dont bring this up when a coworkers tell me their vibe coded prototype is working and theyll never look at the code, but how does someone ignore that they charge per token?

as long as something works "good enough" and the code will never be reviewed theres only incentive to blast through tokens generating superfluous code. god forbid they actually ship a vibe coded product then they can basically ransom you for tokens

im probably being overly cynical but it sort of just seems like standard capitalism to me

i like the chart, thanks for sharing

more related to the term "surrounded by idiots": my spouse and i go on a big trip every year and in the few weeks leading up to it we both find ourselves feeling like were "surrounded by idiots" in work and life. noticed the pattern so well tell one other "ive entered the surrounded by idiots phase" once were close to vacation time