A'ight. The whole vibecoding thing deserves a chance to prove itself.

So here's something that I haven't seen done sufficiently well by regular coders; if AI is truly that much more innovative, it shouldn't have any problem.

One of the problems with compute is the whole billing and scheduling thing - a lot of places have specific cost-per-hour to run batch processing; a lot of large enterprises have complex pipelines that need scheduling in order to interleave things that need processing with resources available to process them.

So a vibe coder who's confident they can prove themselves could create a utility that can look at a given program's binary, analyze it, and determine how long it will take to run, and calculate the cost to run it. Do this within 1% of actual and you'll have a truly innovative new product.

@munin `return "1 second";`

you didn't specify how good the solution needed to be to _ship_, only to be an "innovative new product"

@r @munin

> within 1% of actual

@AVincentInSpace @munin "i'm sure we can improve the accuracy only after we've gained enough developer mindshare"

@r @munin please tell me this is not actually how these nutjobs sell their shit to VCs

please tell me that line doesn't actually work on people with money

@AVincentInSpace @munin "here you can see our incredibly-rapid DAU growth, and here's another chart showing our industry-leading estimation error per unit of compute"
@AVincentInSpace @munin not sure how many VCs can be bamboozled this way, but it certainly feels like "more than one"