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What a tragedy.

Lake America, Gulf of America, and Mt. McKinley. The last being arguably the only sensible one based off "common names".

Literally no person not suffering a mental health crisis seriously calls these bodies of water GoA or LA. You could not find a single healthy adult on the Great Lakes who says anything other than Lake Ontario.

Absurd from Google and frankly they need to be punished. I want corporations to be scared of wading into politics again.

This is the new playing field, but this game can't last forever. Most software is not churning through a software factory of endless patches and releases. Most software, once mature, is mostly done.

I see a world in which we all get some generous Dependabot 2.0 on large forges because leaving so much software insecure otherwise is untenable, but once the software is not iterating a billion times a week, you're not introducing new classes of bugs just sitting there.

You can have a frontier security model pentesting your program every night while you sleep and you can wake up knowing that whatever happens, you did the best you could.

I definitely don't enjoy vibe coding nearly as much as just coding, and in the last year when I was heavily leaning on AI while I dealt with some personal shit, I was able to make more stuff than I ever could at my prime by hand. That being said, I could not tell you a single thing I vibe coded this year outside of work.

It's a tool, and it's a tool that lets you skip that parts that bore you. For most devs, they never cared about the craft--they copy and pasted whatever they could from the internet until they had something good enough. People cut corners, always have. I got into programming at 10 because I really liked knowing how my computer worked and being able to do/make anything on it. That hasn't changed with AI, but it sure as hell has made tinkering a lot easier. No more wondering if a proc I've never seen before should be on my system. No more hunting down config docs for my editor. All of that annoying grunt work that got in the way of me actually coding is something an agent handles for me in the background. The part I did--and still do--like? I can do that by hand if I want and when I get bored or fatigued I can swap to AI.

There are so many corpo slopcannon's in this thread whose minds are slaves to KPIs and productivity. Let it go bro. Relax and live a little. There's nothing wrong with writing code by hand in your own time or using AI. If you enjoy writing code, solving all the individual problems and getting your hands dirty, you should keep doing so! It's only a matter of months, year over year, where all of the vibe coders' real knowledge evaporates and they're slaves to their subscription (or local hardware, say less king). You can be an expert who codes when there's no internet. I know I wouldn't know nearly as much if I hadn't spent so many years actually writing code. You understand taking your time and exercising discipline is just as valid of a path.

I don't understand all of these developers I see who are so hostile to people who still like the craft. It's such cope, bro. Either admit you don't get it and that you're a tasteless little slopboi who would never have amounted to anything meaningful because he doesn't have the discipline to actually learn to code. Or, get over yourself and let people enjoy things. Nobody cares about your holy quest to advocate for another subscription.

This is why I love Go. Nobody was asking for this, but they took the time to do it right and continue to Push go as a memory safe, high-level systems language.

I'm so excited for another model I will never effectively use because I'm not overpaid to live in San Mansisco.

How well do you think their terminal works if they couldn't even spend the time to clean up their vibe coded website?

Yeah... people aren't paying Bloomberg $31,980 per year for a TUI. They're paying for the data source... and I don't think you have Bloomberg's connections.

AI Creators and NFT Bros are cut from the same cloth. Just polluters who think because they can type on a keyboard it makes them special despite having spent most of their lives as talent-less hacks.

Isn't this basic economics? Supply and demand. If slop floods the zone then human work becomes even more scarce and valuable.

What is my incentive to pay you? A person who spent no time working on something and who probably won't spend any time working with me if I need support. You're literally a meat puppet and a useless middleman when I could pay $20 and do it myself.

I don't think its asking too much of a $1T company to not make a shitty desktop app. Especially when that companies whole moat with developers is that their tools can do our jobs better and faster.

The real reason they're using Electron is that some PM is comfortable with it and since nobody is reading the code, they use that comfort as a crutch to release most-likely working desktop app.

When the creator of a project has infinite money, infinite labor, and infinite incentive to lock more devs into their platform via skill atrophy and the product is still shit, that's the human in the loop.

> I strongly agree that written text should be from humans to humans. Yet I still write all of my texts with LLMs. And I don’t find that contradictory. What distinguishes “AI slop” from “good writing” is whether a human has put thoughts behind it. And you cannot outsource thinking.

Writing is thinking. If you're outsourcing your writing to an LLM, you are shortchanging yourself by skipping over much of the refinement of ideas that the process of writing provides.

I wish the author had clarified how he uses LLMs for writing. It's perfectly fine to have an LLM proofread and fix your grammatical errors--that's a mechanical task. But I think it's gross when it starts putting words and content on the page.

We were so spoiled. We got fat salaries to sit in air conditioned Herman Millers all day learning about computers. Now we discover a way to synthesis intelligence and the only thing we can think to do with it is ruin the most fun career most of us could have ever hoped for.

Sure, we're all more productive now, but how much of that is because we leverage AI on top of the intelligence we gained from all of that manual work? Who is to say that in 36 months you're not a worse developer over all because that systems knowledge starts to atrophy too?

This isn't me saying you shouldn't use AI. I use it all of the time to do useful side tasks like to setup GitHub Workflows while I write a feature, or with my agent on a VPS to do internet tasks for me. It's nice to have a little synthesized intelligence.

What isn't nice is to supplement your own intelligence. I think the gains are in the work there--similar to how you can be absolutely ripped from taking steroids while destroying your body. Often it's the shortcuts that are the most treacherous path.

I won't have an opinion until Brian Johnson tells me how much younger this makes him.