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🤡 Spoiler alert: the article warns us that #spam is now dressed-up in its Sunday best, thanks to "vibe-coding." 🎩✨ The author seems genuinely concerned that our inboxes might become too eye-catching, as if the real problem with spam was always its lack of #aesthetic appeal. 📬💅
https://tedium.co/2026/02/25/vibe-coded-email-spam/ #vibes #inbox #design #spamfilter #HackerNews #ngated
Why Email Spam Looks Better Than Usual These Days

The problem with making coding easier for more people is that it makes spam more conventionally attractive. Which is bad.

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@ngate doesn't make sense. garbage can only ever look like garbage. it is impossible for garbage to resemble things that are not garbage.

so it's not a concern because div tags and cascading style sheets are not part of information evaluation in humans.

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