Posts by PMs claiming they can now contribute complete features by vibe coding is the scariest shit ever. Not as an engineer but as an inhabitant of this world.
I understand Dunning-Kruger is not a thing but we NEED a term for this kind of ignorance-based overconfidence.
@lechimp And that usage has held on for a long time; here's the commercial for the original Dumb & Dumber, where the narrator reads the eugenic definition of "idiot" to you
Nobody seemed to notice the eugenics connection, or care
@clayote there also is some scientific essay called „The survival of ancient Greek social type terms in the German language“ referenced in that wikipedia page. so maybe there actually is some difference in terms here, although the same word is used.
anyway, i do not want to invoke any reference to eugenics, so i will definitely be more careful with that word in english language contexts (and probably in german as well…)
@hynek I think we have the same person in mind, and came to the same conclusion.
My dude, if I, a principal-level engineer (allowing a moment of non-humility here) with 15 years of industry experience cannot prompt the best coding model well enough to produce code that's commitable without significant changes I very much doubt a PM can. Or was everyone just pushing garbage to prod all this time and I was unaware?
@hynek Third-Person Thinking.
I think I heard this on bsky, where it was attributed to some middle schoolers a teacher knew
@jimgar @hynek First person thinking is whenever "I think" something. When you want to have thought something, but you don't want to think it, you might ask an AI what it "thinks".
Of course, you're the one reading any meaning into the text, but you're pretending it's somebody else -- the grammatical "third person".
You could generalize this to the type of person who leans on "common knowledge" all the time, which, come to think of it, is something awful project managers do, too
Maybe 'Vibemaxxing'? Or perhaps 'code wrongling'?
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