@siriusfox I found some local art with a similar vibe to the quilt show you went to:
fundamental
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Car driver: "They really should have closed this street .... I'm a local"
Then they continued to slowly drive into a street packed with hundreds of people. 🤔
Then they continued to slowly drive into a street packed with hundreds of people. 🤔
After a short conversation sparked by forgetting I was wearing corporate/educational swag the grocery store cashier said:
> No more code. No more code.
Interesting times we find ourselves in.
Daisy LeighGenuinely one of the worst things for me about the vibe coding apocalypse is that it is steadily eroding my patience in code review.
It used to be that if you identified issues with someone’s code, you could explain why, and help your coworker learn and grow as a professional. And sometimes they’d respond by explaining why they did it that way, and then you get to learn and grow as well.
Now a lot of the time when I do code review, I feel like I’m not actually investing my time in learning, just giving them something to copy paste into an AI chatbot without engaging with either the code or the feedback.
I really shouldn't be surprised that my local blacksmith doesn't like to use modern technology, but somehow I end up surprised every time I interact with their website.
Some people might talk about writing spaghetti code, but this research team took it to a whole extra (awesome) level:
skCAD
If you have a chance to see it in theater or a local film fest I strongly recommend seeing 'A Useful Ghost'.
If I do eventually need one for commuting one of the nice things is my current daily rider is ~16kg before adding any of my panniers, so its entirely possible if I target the right bike I could have a lighter ebike including the needed batteries.
I've been thinking about the possibility of having a bike commute in the future and Brompton's offerings seem quite interesting as a way of keeping a nicer bike off the street everyday. It is a shame with their newer ebike offering that they shrank the gear options from a 12-speed system down to a 4-speed. I'm sure pretty regularly I'd want to pedal under my own power and with the smaller diameter tires I'd expect having more gears would be ideal.
After seeing a number of users in the wild I'm honestly concerned that several of these coding assistant workflows have addition like properties for regular users. They present a 'magic' to the users which convinces them that they're always the right tool for the job and the interactivity pulls users further in.
I'm not going to hold the view that they can't speed up certain tasks, but for simpler tasks I'm pretty sure at this stage that they impair users over time and limit growth in expertise. It's really concerning to watch as most users haven't really been exposed to these tools for that long at this point and I have to expect that the long term exposure is going to lead to accumulated risk factors.
It's also generally sad to be in a position reviewing output that comes purely from these tools. IMO using the tooling as search+autocomplete keeps the user in a fine position (i.e. for very small fragments getting a wrong API call from a lossy text embedder isn't _that_ far off from getting it from a dodgy stack overflow answer), but full generation means you can't discuss any 'work' submitted by a colleague/contributor/etc as they are either wholly unaware of the content or have not thought over the content being pushed along at a level of detail needed for healthy conversation.