@otterlove

Gonna say this here: human beings have produced crap code, to the point where we're writing ten times more tests than code.

True I wouldn't vibe code a car. But I wouldn't trust any of these jackasses running around telling me AI is so awful. The craft of software has never enforced any standards upon itself.

@tuban_muzuru @[email protected] wouldn’t vibe code the tests

@birkenator

The stupider the humans the more tests they have to write.

@tuban_muzuru truly smart people don’t write code at all

@birkenator

You left out the part where people have a tenuous relationship with the truth.

That's why I laugh at all these Thickies squeaking about how I wouldn't vibe a car. Because that's exactly what happened with my whiz-bang shiny Chrysler Pacifica and its audio system.

@tuban_muzuru yeah critical things are definitely getting vibe coded. I have seen it myself…

I wonder if this is how old school programmers think of those of us that started out in the 2010s with our shitty JS dependencies and half baked frameworks.

@birkenator

As a consultant, I've come to realize humans are far more dangerous than machines.

They lie, Birk, The people lie.

@tuban_muzuru yeah the humans will be more dangerous until skynet. I so consulting too i feel you.

What’s your expertise at work?

@birkenator

I retired, after a career mostly in robotics and integration, fairly low level stuff.

Got myself a new lightweight codin' box, Linux fedora 6.18.13-200.fc43.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Feb 19 19:54:01 UTC 2026 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ free -h
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 15Gi 10Gi 419Mi 2.3Gi 5.7Gi 4.8Gi
Swap: 8.0Gi 2.4Gi 5.6Gi
dweese@fedora:~$

.. learning Rust, Cande and Python over the last year.

My Codeberg:

https://codeberg.org/dweese/rabbitmq_workspace

rabbitmq_workspace

Refactoring into effective projects, egui-components, rabbitmq_config and rabbitmq_ui

Codeberg.org