“tHe PrOgReSs hAs bEeN iNsAnE”
A new way to look at vibe coding to point out that it isn’t coding.
It’s hiring a company. In the year 2012, you could email someone with a request for something you want made, and if you have money they’ll reply back over network the code you need.
AI companies just tightened that loop. You hired a company to write software for you. That doesn’t make you a developer or a programmer.
It took piracy to make AI. It took piracy to make AI profitable.
Can’t wait for the shoe to drop and horror stories of the “hEaD dEv” have their computer wiped because the generative AI agent did something it wasn’t tasked to do. That’s always the hope so that way we can laugh at their punishment.
That, or in the case of generative AI, I am willing to side with the capitalist cthulu cult leaders since I hate the generattive AI cthulu beast “we” are creating even more. In other words, for once would absolutely side with sintendo if they sued the kid into taking down “their” “work” all because of the usage of generative AI.
Hell, maybe the parents, or more likely some 3rd party paid by the parents if the kid is constantly going through accounts and can afford to do it, would then step in and teach that kid a lesson. I’d hope it’s a lesson on being a decent human and not using generative AI for anything, but if they’re a rich enough family, you know there won’t be any serious life lesson.
I wonder how far $9000 would have gone if it was donated to real people working on a port instead.
In either case I’ll never lower myself to voluntarily consume AI slop.
Lets say you get a dev working for 320 hours over the course of two month on the project for that money. I hate AI as the next person, but I honestly don’t think he would have achieved anything noteworthy to the Normies in those two month.
Answer: something that would’ve run much better on much lower end hardware and worked for more than one game, but would’ve taken much longer to produce (since actual human thought went into it) which is the only metric people seem to pay attention to.
$9k won’t get you far in the US or most of Europe.
Given that he is almost certainly using a $100 or $200/month plan, he could probably only afford a 30-60 minute consultation.
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It would have to happen through donations to people already working on this stuff on a volunteer basis, not normal contract work. As the whole thing is based on IP theft anyway it would be a terrible idea to hire people for it in a normal way.
when Nintendo figures out where to send the lawsuit
Must be nice to have a rich parent.
“Michael Reeves here. Today we’re replacing the brain of this Tesla Cybertruck with a fly brain running on an XBox!”
Future dystopia: investing in your own skills is no longer valuable. That kid with rich parents will always be ahead of you.
Not so future tbh, that already is the case a lot more often than we’d like to admit. Rich parents and parents with good connections are the absolute jackpots you have to land as kid or you’ll be some kind of screwed unless you manage to be incredibly lucky later on.
I’m not saying that rich people have never had an advantage. I’m saying that the only thing that gives lower income people a little bit of extra advantage is completely lost.
It doesn’t matter if you’re the best programmer in the world. You’re no match to what the rich brat can output.
Yeah, taking AI out of the context of tomato’s comment makes you think it’s not already the case, but it’s been the case since, like, wealth and connections and status became a thing, if not earlier.
Back on topic, I don’t think having real skills that you can leverage without AI is going to completely lock you out of a job or something. For now, it is pretty gloom, but I’m seeing more and more cases in my company where AI leads to nearly catastrophic failures because people use it mindlessly and generate too much busywork of others, who don’t bother checking it that thoroughly, leading to really bad consequences for everyone in a couple of weeks since the slopping commenced.
Of course, it’s happening because the upper-management has been pushing hard for everyone to use AI for everything.
Maybe companies turn away from AI because their average AI user does more harm than good with it. If I can’t have a world where all the tech that’s powering AI goes to something where it actually has benefits (which is a few scientific fields and applications like protein folding or some shit, if that hasn’t been proven wrong, too), I hope I can at least have a world where AI has disappointed the decision makers enough so that it becomes a niche expensive toy for morons with money that are ridiculed and shunned.
That’s the current dystopia, dawg.
That’s not future dystopia. That’s just how it is and how it has always been since capitalism was invented
Always has been 🔫 🧑🚀
Being rich is a cheatcode.
What future lol. That has been the case for thousands of years. Science, art, philosophy, writing and so on was the thing rich people did for thousands of years. Some peasant’s kid had to work in the fields as soon as he could while the rich people’s kid could get education. This is not something new. The last few hundred years or so is where this wasn’t the case as public education became a thing and people’s standards of living rose enough that kids were not just another pair of hands to help on the farm or around the house.
And a community who are ok with being beta testers
It says “job and donations” so if we take that at face value it seems to be self-funded whaling.
I’ve gotten in the habit of looking at all software for LLM commits on their Github page.
Check out the SlopScan extension
I legit started to cheer for Sony and Nintendo recently lol. I hate how people act like this is a good thing.
No, AI bros being shit doesn’t make Sony and Nintendo good. They are massive companies that will take advantage of you whenever they think that they will get away with it. They don’t deserve your sympathy.
Of course there are now whales in Open Source, lol
Aside from the part where they’re giving money to Anthropic this is a pretty good use of AI tbh.
