> Doesn't matter.
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> Doesn't matter. He has no vision. The point, and there IS a point buried in here somewhere under the Wild Turkey and the gunpowder residue and the faint smell of burning silicon, is that the entire vibe coding movement was a confidence trick played on people who didn't know enough about software to understand they were being conned, by people who ALSO didn't know enough about software to understand they were conning anyone. It was a consensual mutual hallucination. A folie à deux at scale. A collective agreement to pretend that typing English sentences into a chat window was the same thing as engineering, the same way a child pretends that a cardboard box is a spaceship, except the child doesn't charge $20 a month for the cardboard box and the child's cardboard box didn't leak 1.5 million API keys into the open internet.
FEAR AND LOATHING IN THE VIBE CODING ABYSS
A Savage Journey to the Heart of the Silicon Dream It was somewhere around 3am on a Tuesday when the drugs began to take hold and I realised that six point six billion dollars had been poured into a machine that writes code the way a hundred monkeys write poetry: with great enthusiasm and no compreh
(www.linkedin.com)
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> Doesn't matter. He has no vision. The point, and there IS a point buried in here somewhere under the Wild Turkey and the gunpowder residue and the faint smell of burning silicon, is that the entire vibe coding movement was a confidence trick played on people who didn't know enough about software to understand they were being conned, by people who ALSO didn't know enough about software to understand they were conning anyone. It was a consensual mutual hallucination. A folie à deux at scale. A collective agreement to pretend that typing English sentences into a chat window was the same thing as engineering, the same way a child pretends that a cardboard box is a spaceship, except the child doesn't charge $20 a month for the cardboard box and the child's cardboard box didn't leak 1.5 million API keys into the open internet.
FEAR AND LOATHING IN THE VIBE CODING ABYSS
A Savage Journey to the Heart of the Silicon Dream It was somewhere around 3am on a Tuesday when the drugs began to take hold and I realised that six point six billion dollars had been poured into a machine that writes code the way a hundred monkeys write poetry: with great enthusiasm and no compreh
(www.linkedin.com)
@davidgerard Vibe coders are the Libertarians of engineering. Loud, overwhelmingly white men with supremel and entirely undeserved confidence, with their brains rotted out by things that tell them they are not the asshole for being irredeemably selfish. When things pan out the way they always do, the society they shunned and actively worked to harm will be expected to run to their rescue... Sadly there are no metaverse bears or mountain lions to eat them and their mountain of digital garbage first.
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> Doesn't matter. He has no vision. The point, and there IS a point buried in here somewhere under the Wild Turkey and the gunpowder residue and the faint smell of burning silicon, is that the entire vibe coding movement was a confidence trick played on people who didn't know enough about software to understand they were being conned, by people who ALSO didn't know enough about software to understand they were conning anyone. It was a consensual mutual hallucination. A folie à deux at scale. A collective agreement to pretend that typing English sentences into a chat window was the same thing as engineering, the same way a child pretends that a cardboard box is a spaceship, except the child doesn't charge $20 a month for the cardboard box and the child's cardboard box didn't leak 1.5 million API keys into the open internet.
FEAR AND LOATHING IN THE VIBE CODING ABYSS
A Savage Journey to the Heart of the Silicon Dream It was somewhere around 3am on a Tuesday when the drugs began to take hold and I realised that six point six billion dollars had been poured into a machine that writes code the way a hundred monkeys write poetry: with great enthusiasm and no compreh
(www.linkedin.com)
@davidgerard agh if only it weren't on fking linkedin
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> Doesn't matter. He has no vision. The point, and there IS a point buried in here somewhere under the Wild Turkey and the gunpowder residue and the faint smell of burning silicon, is that the entire vibe coding movement was a confidence trick played on people who didn't know enough about software to understand they were being conned, by people who ALSO didn't know enough about software to understand they were conning anyone. It was a consensual mutual hallucination. A folie à deux at scale. A collective agreement to pretend that typing English sentences into a chat window was the same thing as engineering, the same way a child pretends that a cardboard box is a spaceship, except the child doesn't charge $20 a month for the cardboard box and the child's cardboard box didn't leak 1.5 million API keys into the open internet.
FEAR AND LOATHING IN THE VIBE CODING ABYSS
A Savage Journey to the Heart of the Silicon Dream It was somewhere around 3am on a Tuesday when the drugs began to take hold and I realised that six point six billion dollars had been poured into a machine that writes code the way a hundred monkeys write poetry: with great enthusiasm and no compreh
(www.linkedin.com)
@davidgerard This is such an important observation.
These utter morons are being led by a gaggle of pied pipers into a cave, where they'll be predictably murdered.
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> Doesn't matter. He has no vision. The point, and there IS a point buried in here somewhere under the Wild Turkey and the gunpowder residue and the faint smell of burning silicon, is that the entire vibe coding movement was a confidence trick played on people who didn't know enough about software to understand they were being conned, by people who ALSO didn't know enough about software to understand they were conning anyone. It was a consensual mutual hallucination. A folie à deux at scale. A collective agreement to pretend that typing English sentences into a chat window was the same thing as engineering, the same way a child pretends that a cardboard box is a spaceship, except the child doesn't charge $20 a month for the cardboard box and the child's cardboard box didn't leak 1.5 million API keys into the open internet.
FEAR AND LOATHING IN THE VIBE CODING ABYSS
A Savage Journey to the Heart of the Silicon Dream It was somewhere around 3am on a Tuesday when the drugs began to take hold and I realised that six point six billion dollars had been poured into a machine that writes code the way a hundred monkeys write poetry: with great enthusiasm and no compreh
(www.linkedin.com)
@davidgerard Of course, Clay Cunningham swoops into the comments to make that tired Wright Brothers analogy, conveniently ignoring the fact that the post already argues for a place where they seem to have benefit.
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