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Softwarewolf@cadey mmm, fraits
Arto Koistinen
Jargogglesif only there was some other way of producing pictures
@arzi @jargoggles @faoluin I stole this meme from LinkedIn fwiw, I didn't read it that closely. Looks like I got got.
Either that or it's more accurate satire this way. Pick whichever is more funny to you.
Elrick_Winter@cadey @arzi @jargoggles @faoluin The slot machine looks like a picture form a "definitely not gambling" mobile "game" ad i recently saw. (I cannot find the exact advert anymore, but I have several similar ones.) This is probably, why it's AI generated and in the picture.
Krazov@cadey On the other hands, certified slot have like 90% RTP, so on average you are probably risking less than when vibe-coding.
derptron@cadey I actually worked on slot machine games for a few years.
I won't call it a "highly" regulated industry but it certainly is. You are expected to prove that there's a certain level of pay back to the user and that it matches the advertised rate of pay and volatility.
We had to run these tests that would go for days on the backend part of the game. thousands of games a second for days. If it was off by a mere fraction of a percent--we'd have to go figure out why. It sucked.
Slots win.
Trilogic
Cam R. 
@cadey Alt text:
Slots:
You buy chips
You spin the slots
You might hit the jackpot, or nothing
Flashing lights, seductive animation
I've got my own strategy
One more spin - I'll win it all back!
The casino is always in profit
Easy money: I hit the jackpot!
Where did the last 4 hours go?
Vibe coding:
You buy tokens
You press "Generate"
You might get a bug-free app, or total garbage that won't even run
"Great idea!", "Of course!", "Perfect solution just for you!"
I'm a prompt engineer
One more prompt and this bug will disappear
The Cursor is always in profit
Easy coding: I built a SaaS in 1 day!
Wait, did I just spend 4 hours writing prompts for a function I could've written in 20 minutes?
Gabriele Svelto@cadey close, but gambling is a profitable industry while AI is not. Cursor is apparently bleeding money left and right:
AI Is A Money Trap
In the last week, we’ve had no less than three different pieces asking whether the massive proliferation of data centers is a massive bubble, and though they, at times, seem to take the default position of AI’s inevitable value, they’ve begun to sour on the idea that
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Robert Riemann 🇪🇺@cadey please give credit to the authors.
The analogy has been discussed before, e.g. https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/16/jackpot
�@cadey you often end up with (technical) debt
Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE@cadey Someone was trying to tell me the other day that we don't need expensive highly skilled "prompt engineers".
Because we should instead ask the AI to generate the prompt for us.
This was supposed to be some serious training.
pizzle@cadey what if youre not a programmer?
Pay a programmer or pay chatgpt? Which one is cheaper?
Pay a programmer or pay chatgpt? Which one is cheaper?
@pizzle cheap != quality
@cadey for some things, I dont really care about quality. If it works, its good enough
@pizzle @cadey Yes and no. If you want to do something once, then some vibe-coded word-splatter works. I would guess however that this is not the main use case, since you could likely hire another professional anyway or just do this specific task yourself. Otherwise maintainability and understanding abnormal inputs becomes the dominant consideration. A good programmer should prioritise exactly this.
@Elrick_Winter @cadey yes its for personal use/hobby project. If it works im not gonna maintain, if it breaks then worry about maintenance.