"So, what, you're saying vibe coding works now?" Well, no. I wouldn't go that far. For one thing, my tests are all limited to a very small environment with a very big model and a good agent harness, making very small, highly testable programs, and even then it's not perfect.

You know it's weird. I should be miserable. My TV, furnace, and water heater all died the same week. Plus I lost followers and got told to fuck myself by more than one of them on the way out the door.

oh ok

Definitely a large portion of anti-LLM coding sentiment is perfectly legitimate labour grievance against bosses forcing tech where it doesn't belong or isn't ready to be put. But there's also definitely a portion who resent anything new at all, who see any change as impurity to be removed.

YouTubers: Let everybody know you thoroughly intend to continue producing videos by making one titled "THIS IS THE END!" with a big sad/shocked face in the thumbnail.

"But you're outsourcing your thinking to a machine!" I mean, yeah, kind of. But only the thinking I don't want to do. I do lots of thinking of my own. I think all the time. I overthink, in fact.

Multiple things can be true at the same time. I see a bunch of corpo bullshit slop code coming out of corpo bullshit factories. I also see a bunch of people doing stuff they wouldn't have time or energy to do otherwise and getting surprisingly good results.

95% of all code written by hand is crap. GenAI code? Probably more like 97% at a rough estimate.

"Masters of the Universe" is the only thing this year that made me cringe harder than the "sex" scene in "OBSESSION". Everything about it looked perfect, but the constant "look how dumb all this is" jokes made me want to jump off the top of Castle Greyskull.

Don't give money to OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, or any American billionaire owned AI company. That's the *least* you can do to mitigate the shitshow around this tech.

Forgive the fuck out of me for being more concerned with software being testable and serving a human need, than I am with what tools were used to make it. You read that right. Software should serve a real human need, or it shouldn't be made at all. That solves your vibe coding problem right there.

Currently working on the selftest program for 65X-DOS (Gods that needs a better name...) which is an on-device full ABI functionality smoke test. There's obvious value in that, I think.

Finally added a copy of Hisoft's "Pascal" interpreter / compiler for the MZ-700 to my archive! mz-archive.co.uk/downloads/ES...

90 percent of the amigaos 3 source code was leaked eons ago. the only reason there isnt a fresh, well maintained, from-source version of the system on a modern toolchain now is because a bunch of jokers are playing legal keepaway with it

automatically running signal messages through a stranger's AI is, I think, the worst pitch and idea I've ever been cold pitched in my life and that is saying a lot

its cool that hyperion is transferring amigaos 3.1.4 to someone else but if the end result of this isnt an mit licensed public repository im going to be irritating about it for the next decade

I feel like I've spent half my life explaining why being poor is expensive to people people desperate to avoid confronting it.

katie@supermathskid.bsky.social · yesterday

okay now he's gone too far

massive massive props to Ben Eater for mentioning that Turing Completeness requires infinite memory so nothing we can build is actually TC this is one of those things i see a lot of folx getting wrong and its frustrating, so its nice to see someone make a point of it

Whether you "vibe code" or write every line by hand, don't expect me to take you seriously if I don't see a full test harness in that codebase.

Me: "The problems with LLM-assisted coding are this, that, and the other thing. If you want to use these tools for serious work, you need to do this, this, and this other thing." Vibe coders: "Fuck you!" Anti-LLM people: "Fuck you!" Me: "Why do I even bother some days?"

Doing ExFAT fault injection testing in 65X-DOS now, after spending some time making the test harness use more than just one core of the CPU. That cut a full test harness run from five minutes to 35 seconds.

ModRetro can just fuck off! Yeah, that's right. No punches pulled here. No advertisers to keep happy, so I can say whatever I want. So, again: ModRetro can fuck off. Especially that walking bag...

ModRetro can just fuck off!

Yeah, that's right. No punches pulled here. No advertisers to keep happy, so I can say whatever I want. So, again: ModRetro can fuck off. Especially that walking bag of...

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Straight women on TikTok are on a "Bi Men are.bad actually" tear, calling us all sorts of shit but not wanting to be called out for bigotry. As one person put it, it's like their version of men being called out for toxic masculinity. They are being asked to reflect on their biphobia & hate it.

I feel like part (but not all) of the problem with "vibe coders" is that they are in such a rush to do more that they neglect the test/debug cycle that's critical in all software dev. Just because your fancy pants machine can code real fast doesn't absolve you of the obligation to test your shit.

I think it's a fundamental instinct of so many of the tech leaders, but *particularly* Musk, to try to destroy the livelihoods of people who tell them they're morons. "No more programmers, no more programmers telling me I'm wrong."

Personally, I want to see Musk's straight-to-binary AI coder running in an endless loop trying to do basic debugging, each time having to unwind the binary entirely to figure out what it does, begging the user to let it create a file that clearly delineates the internal functioning pre-compile.

Reality is just so, so stupid now.

Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · 2d ago

The richest person in the world, an avowed white supremacist, today again posted "the next step is getting rid of 'source code' entirely and just making an efficient binary directly with AI" because he has no idea how anything works, not even the basics of industries he is in.

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

loose IBM power switch my beloved :) Id never rob a real one for the switch so i have to rely on one to already be robbed first

I feel like this would be Duke's way of looking at it