Jason Lefkowitz
I guess my fundamental disagreement with the vibe coding folks is that the absolute last thing I think this world needs is even more software
Feb 9 at 3:17amWeb
Show threadJason LefkowitzFeb 9
We've spent 30 years putting software into everything, and everything is worse now than it was 30 years ago. I feel like these two facts may somehow be connected
Show threadjust call me jack. 🐒Feb 9
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Show threadMarty BFeb 9
@jalefkowit The past was better, by far, than this present.
Show threadAaron Sawdey, Ph.D.Feb 9
@jalefkowit The problem is generally capitalism introducing unnecessary software.
Show threadzinzFeb 9
@jalefkowit
Nah the problem is the DMCA and it's anti circumvention provisions. Which means that software is put everywhere to get those protections and associated rent seeking in as many products as possible.
Software itself is not making devices bad the associated circumvention laws do.
Show threadreticuleena Leena SimonFeb 9
@jalefkowit Just the other day when the car would not play the podcast or any other music or radio anymore without any reason (not the first time) I was thinking of the good old radio cassette combination that never broke. Even the CD player did not have such bugs.
And don't get me startet on the TV. It has problems every other day. And it's brand new.
Show threadPatrick Lam Feb 10
@reticuleena @jalefkowit I kind of think that the car with the cassette player might not have started in the -25C weather last weekend, while the 2011 car absolutely did (fortunately)
Show threadreticuleena Leena SimonFeb 10
@jalefkowit @va2lam The car itself got better of course. But all multimedia stuff got "smarter" which means "lots of stupid features you don't use" and "lots of bugs no one can fix."
Show threadBillFeb 10

@reticuleena @jalefkowit @va2lam

Not to mention all the controls that have gone from physical buttons to some option three levels down in a menu on the touch screen.

Show threadreticuleena Leena SimonFeb 10
@jalefkowit @va2lam @w_b I hate those. And I keep wondering: Why!?!
It is so dangerous. Worse than texting while driving.
I mean, I know why they produce them this way. Because it's cheaper. But why do people buy this shit? And why is it not against the law to build dangerous cars?
Enshittification at its best.
Show threadBillFeb 10

@reticuleena @jalefkowit @va2lam

Those vehicles sell because they are what the auto industry crams down our throat.

Fortunately some manufacturers are listening and bringing back physical buttons.

Show threadThomas A. FrederiksenFeb 10
@va2lam @reticuleena @jalefkowit It might just have. According to the mechanics I know reliability and repairability for cars peaked in the mid-nineties. Incidentally just before the amount of software in them shot up...
Show threadunlofl [Promoted Toot]Feb 9
@jalefkowit
"can we make all of this software better?"
"no, but we can rush development faster and make it worse!"
Show threadMathew StormFeb 9

Is the problem the software itself, or the people who own the software, and their perverse incentives to prioritize profit over all else?

Maybe Capitalism was the problem all along O___O

I don't think vibe coding will fix that by any means, especially since the LLM providers are part of that perverse profit incentive (on top of the myriad of other issues, of course).

I think more open-source/self-hostable software is good -- more propriety closed software is bad.

Show threadfan boy 🪭Feb 9
@jalefkowit
Vibe coding could disappear tomorrow, and folks would still be getting paid to write software.