David GerardMar 6

there are people who attempt to distinguish AI-assisted autocomplete from substantially AI-assisted code from raw braindead Gas Town vibe coding

this is not a useful distinction as they *all* end up at the third one

you can tell when they start posting the *same* hype phrases all the others use

there is no moderation on the krokodil advocacy train

Show threadmx alex tax1a - 2020 (6)Mar 6
@davidgerard we had language-model-assisted autocomplete in our emacs in 2013. it's called dabbrev-expand. we also have a random text generator, it's called dissociated-press. we even have a psychiatric chatbot, M-x doctor.
Show threadMoses IzumiMar 7
@davidgerard @atax1a
If I was doing a newsletter on LLM bollocks I'd have a column highlighting reliable, energy efficient solutions to the problems that they claim to solve.

I don't know if Microsoft bundling Visual Basic with every copy of Windows (getting the rubes acquainted with programming) would've prevented the vibecoding epidemic, but it would probably have mitigated it.
Show threadMoses IzumiMar 7
@atax1a @davidgerard
[not much of a programmer, but my ZDoom modding phase was pretty joyful (reading the docs and dissecting existing mods to shoehorn jetpacks into Doom)]
[it's mainly based around interpreted languages]
Show threadmx alex tax1a - 2020 (6)

@moses_izumi @davidgerard game mod programming is, to us, unequivocally "programming", sorry, but this makes you a programmer

you have been assigned programmer at toot

Mar 7 at 12:35amWeb
Show threadMoses IzumiMar 7
@atax1a @davidgerard
it's been at least half a year a since I did anything with it
Show threadLanda Mar 7
@moses_izumi
I don’t think it rubs off so easily 😁
@atax1a @davidgerard