Does vibe coding feel incredible?

There’s definitely a magic in watching it print code with almost no input. Like watching git history with Gource.

It’s not good code, but it is cool to see.

They assume the AI will be able to get there with enough tokens/time with the help of the human at the other end. They have done this and decided it was good enough.

Or if it does break, just hit it with the AI stick until it works again.

It’s an order.

Optometrists still use cocaine on toddlers, for example, since it’s helpful for opthamology, to determine whether they have eye problems.

Not in bag form, of course, but in eyedrops.

Not unless it can predict all the contributing factors.

DNA isn’t the full story.

Maybe they got hit by a car, were a hobbyist boxer, or had surgery, for example.

Same womb, similar growing environment, etc.

But even then, they’re not perfectly identical. Very similar, but not the exact same.

No more than Hydrox is for laundry.

Don’t forget the glitchy James Bond footage

Like do I want to read the Lord of the Rings as imperialist propaganda against orcs and Southrons and wildlings, who actually have valid political objections to the axis of Human-Elf-Dwarf hegemony? Hell yeah I do because I’m a leftist freak, but I recognize that I am fundamentally misreading the moral context the story is presented in–it’s about archetypes, about human values, about that nature of evil, not as an independent entity in itself, but how it can manifests in each one of us.

Funnily enough, I think Tolkein might have also enjoyed that. He was long-conflicted about the nature of orcs, being that his religious beliefs maintained that evil could not create from nothing, but only twist, and even then, it could not corrupt someone past possibility of redemption.

So orcs were stuck between being elves corrupted past redemption, or something sauron created.

Probably the WORST thing a story can do is mix and match “people are only evil because of we misunderstand them” and "people are purely evil.¨ I don´t see it often, but I think How to Train Your Dragon does it.

Or change it on the fly for the same character.

Cruella de Ville going from someone so single-mindedly obsessed with the idea of the perfect coat, that she didn’t care for how she got there, even if she had to skin a hundred puppies, to someone who developed a lifelong phobia and hatred of Dalmatians after they scared her mother off a cliff, weakened her character a bit, I feel.

If she had been one of the other from the get-go, that would have been fine, but it was switching between that wasn’t.

Or conversely, racism will be eliminated once the head racist is defeated.

The original Frozen was a nice twist on that, where it wasn’t romantic love that saved the day, but familial love.

Almost as bad is if they get treated worse for saving the town, with the townspeople blaming them for any collateral damage.

Anyone can achieve great things, even if they come from nothing… As long as they secretly have a great background and heritage out the wazoo. Or it is pre-ordained and has to be them; all other attempts doomed to failure.

The initial message might be fine, but it then undermines itself.

It also usually self-cleans quite nicely through the flushing mechanism. Hence the noise, since it pushes water down the sides to clean it.

If opening inspect element and looking at a website’s served HTML is hacking…

Meanwhile, Midnight Commander reads like the title to a pornogram.

To defeat the PulseAudio daemon, shoot at it until it dies

Jack is potentially the most sensibly named.

Is pipewire pipe or wire? Only the gods are allowed to know that.

If the file system is a tree, naming the file manager for someone whose job it is to destroy the tree seems silly.

jq, ed

At the very least, I can’t see mods wanting to have a front-end that hides things in ways that they can’t turn off.

Otherwise, people on the blocklist would become effectively immune to moderators using the front-end, because they’d be completely hidden.