Vibe coding broke people's brains because they had a bad understanding of the software design process.
The pop culture model goes something like this: start out with a sketch and then render that same idea in progressively finer detail.
So when tools could "skip" to high detail, people went WOW.
✩ Like it says: How To Make Your First Contribution to an Open Source Project.
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Hat tip: @piccalil.li
We said we were privacy-focused we didn’t say we were good at it!
design saas dystopia
deleting my figma discourse because what's the point
she finally got away from managing her lizard's instagram
I am really trying to be open minded about AI prototyping
But trying it leads to a lot of output with very little attention to detail or quality.
And that’s what I’m really good at, nuance, quality, detail.
I can’t help but wonder if my way of working is incompatible with design as it is done now
It's important to be clear on what a tool is supposed to do, how it is built, how it is used, who it is used by on whom, etc etc. Again, this is why the term "AI" conflates everything making it impossible to have specific discussions. Stuff I hate and stuff I build myself are both lumped under "AI."
I wish the toolmakers were the ones saying what the tool is supposed to do as well... sigh
I need people to understand that "AI" used in moderation isn't necessarily the "AI" of ChatGPT + friends or synthetic text extruding machines, or LLMs. There's stuff lumped under "AI", as the term is a marketing term, that is actually useful and important for flagging stuff on social media.
Starting to hear buzz about Valerie Veatch's @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social and want to where you can see it? They've got a form on their website to bring Ghost in the Machine to your university, club, festival, institution, or any other place with a screen + humans, virtual or IRL.
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windows pcs are generally for casual users who mostly use it for web browsing and maybe a little gaming. linux is nearly identical except there's no keyboard. macs are for hardcore experts and professionals who take on the toughest tasks, such as drawing three-dimensional rectangles and squares
shokunin made newsweek with only slight misquotes www.newsweek.com/ai-brad-pitt...
just to be clear I didn't say that. This isn't a critique of the person, it's about this one particular piece of writing
well we know the current "model" (ha ha) is unsustainable at cost for the way they're trying to sell it — an everything garbage tool
my personal prediction is the industry will massively downsize and toddle along with much less punishing resources, & lots of local or local-ish usage
and always opt-in when used for a feature of a existing software... right?...right?
and sort out the training as well. Just find a cheaper toy for fuck's sake. Get into photography.
for the record, and to close out this hell-thread, I hope all the LLM addicts switch to locally hosted models so that the data centres die and we can have affordable hardware again. I don't care what toys you want to play with.
"bayesian" should not be a red flag meaning "Bay Area sex pest" but somehow it is
saying that AI is useful for things like coding might be true, but is it *valuable* for things like coding? That's a different story. It can take a long time for bad code to fuck everything up.
Cory Doctorow's ultimate crooked point is that you're fucked if you don't embrace AI. Local models, whatever. He compares technologies that have been proven valuable with a product that is being predicted to be valuable.
the operative part of "hey, try your best not to use or support evil stuff" is "try your best".
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“Because we use fluid type and fluid space, the .flow utility’s flexible, fallback-based setup works in harmony with our methodology of letting the browser do all the hard work for us.”
My favourite 3 lines of CSS, by Andy Bell
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My hopeful and maybe overly optimistic take is that people like Doctorow are seeing refusal, resistance, and ridicule have become *very* popular. To the point where maybe their own audiences have more radical views than they do, and they're afraid of getting "canceled" (which is not a thing obv)
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„…but many people are not utilitarians. They want to lead a life where they feel their actions align with their values. In a way that is a path to freedom: To having the freedom to make the decisions one feels are right are in alignment with one’s values.“ 💯
Refusing to run an LLM on your laptop because you don't like Sam Altman is as foolish as refusing to get monoclonal antibodies because James Watson was a racist nutjob
Or to refuse to communicate via satellite because they were launched into space on a descendant of a rocket designed by the Nazi Wernher von Braun and built by slaves in a death camp
it's very deceptive to compare a sloppy sometimes-correct-for-massive-compute-cost machine to these things on the basis of "they all came from shitty people/places"
saying that AI is useful for things like coding might be true, but is it *valuable* for things like coding? That's a different story. It can take a long time for bad code to fuck everything up.
It's clear that a prominent personality type just does not find AI things appealing. It's infuriating to see this pressure to use AI when the most basic rejection reason is "IDGAF" and that in itself is a career hindering position.
It's clear that a prominent personality type just does not find AI things appealing. It's infuriating to see this pressure to use AI when the most basic rejection reason is "IDGAF" and that in itself is a career hindering position.
