mettamage

Interested in a touch screen apple if it supports Apple Pencil. Then I can finally do Math Academy on one device

I nowadays vibecode entire apps to see what I want. Then I go build it

I can see this. In the areas in my life that I have been most intense, I have been most successful (despite not being the most talented at it relative to other areas in my life).

Fun to see a write up about game studies. Takes me back :)

I never thought about this and now I see that I had all these questions too. Thanks for making that clear.

As someone who meditates and recently fixed his sleep, I can relate

Can’t we say the same about LLMs? Yet interpretability of them is rough.

We can build black boxes and exploit the behavior of what we see.

But we can’t always go to deeper and deeper layers of understanding.

QM is not a black boxes we built but one could perhaps say it’s a black box that we see.

The longer I live, the more I feel air and water are similar in that regard. Fish live in water, we live in air which is less sticky. If air was stickier, more species could fly since flying and swimming are basically similar things but water molecules seem to pack tighter (that’s my guess at least) so when you displace it, you can generate a force (e.g. by flapping).

In that sense, I think any form of atmosphere, it will have its own music but it would probably not sound great in other atmospheres.

Yep and then you'll have some war stories how things break in production because they weren't initially included in the nonfunctional requirements. Have enough of these war stories and you'll basically be a software engineer. Albeit, a software engineer that has never coded before, but definitely someone who understands production issues.

Not needed yet, we needed to capture the UX first to see if we could create what we'd want to create.

I recently vibe coded an application fully and tested it with users. So all the functional requirements were there.

Guess what wasn’t?

The nonfunctional requirements.

Also: my app needs to do LLM classification. But instead sometimes the coding assistant wrote not an LLM api call but it wrote a regex to classify instead. This was despite the fact that I mentioned to not use regexes to classify things with.

Non-technical people don’t know what a regex is. Usually they also aren’t knowledgeable enough about nonfunctional requirements.

All of this may improve over time of course. But right now, I am not impressed (in terms of replacing SWEs).

Hurr durr durrr!

Yea, same. For that I'm slowly turning towards AI-assisted coding with some hand editing afterwards.

I agree, I do like them for creating believable interaction prototypes though.

Agreed, I need to do a lot of prompt crafting when some math academy thing is explained poorly by them.

What sometimes helps is to ask them to make something interactive and visual. Like 3B1B does