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The dark flows and Loss Disguised as a Win felt quite relatable. I've had 3 days in a row at work where I've vibe coded heavily with Opus 4.5 and was flowing and felt super productive and almost manic.

At the end of every one of those days when I went for a walk with my dog I realized "hold on, I don't need all that crap that it generated" and immediately thought of solutions that required a 10th of the code mass.

I've wasted hours on refining something that was crap. Maybe I needed to do that to discover the simple solutions, maybe it was a skills issue. But I was deep in the dark flow and the amount of code I generated definitely felt like a slot machine rewarding me for losing (time).

If it did then I’m very impressed because the demanding more snacks thing was fantastic

That doesn't sound like how I understand over-fitting, but I'm intrigued! How do you mean?

But more importantly, he is not one of those people he writes about. He sets up an ideal that he doesn’t live up to.

He’s an author and journalist, not a doer of any kind as far as I can tell from his bio.

Thanks, just placed a hold on that book at my library!

541 views, on an 8 years old video. How many of those are you responsible for? Anyway I put it on my watch later list, thanks!

I found this refreshing after catching myself overthinking stuff lately. I want to reclaim the joy of coding in 2025.

‘it’ is a welcome addition!

”In my experience, the stronger programmers don't use an IDE and also have no problem producing code at the same speed as IDE users. I also find that the code produced with an IDE is lower quality. I have no idea why”

Zed Shaw in Learn C The Hard Way. For some reason, the most brilliant devs I’ve worked with all used Vim, so I can echo this statement.

Shopify, but yes!

The whole not being dependent on Apple or AWS etc plays into the idea of Technofeudalism and how to counter that to keep a more open society alive. I highly recommend the Philosophise This podcast episode #206 if you want to get an idea of what technofeudalism is.