Christine Lemmer-Webber

How to make programming terrible for everyone https://jneen.ca/posts/2026-03-27-how-to-make-programming-terrible-for-everyone/

By @jneen

This is probably one of the best articles I've read on vibecoding vs traditional coding! And "Interpretation, Predictability, Discoverability" are all great ways to evaluate programming languages in general.

how to make programming terrible for everyone | jneens web site

how to make programming terrible for everyone

Mar 28 at 9:33amWeb
Show threadCsepp 🌢1d ago
@cwebber @jneen Goddamn, this is one of those great articles where I have to click on every fucking link, because they all look interesting. 
Show threadParade du Grotesque 💀23h ago

@cwebber @jneen

"LLMs are arguably an active cognitohazard."

Best. Summary. Ever.

Show threadFabio Neves 🇨🇦🇧🇷21h ago

@cwebber @jneen Yet I’m forced to use it or I’ll lose my job. So yeah. 🫠

The article is absolutely amazing BTW. There are some situations at $job right now that are this close to approaching the quine situation. I do what I can to keep things sane but now I have to actively work on side projects to prevent skill atrophy.

Show threadjneen collective20h ago
@fabio @cwebber a thing i didn't end up putting in was "if the tool is good it wouldn't be necessary to force people to use it"