The hidden beauty of vibe coding

"It passed all the unit tests, the shape of the code looks right," he said. It's 3.7x more lines of code that performs 2,000 times worse than the actual SQLite. Two thousand times worse for a database is a non-viable product. It's a dumpster fire. Throw it away. All that money you spent on it is worthless."

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/17/ai_businesses_faking_it_reckoning_coming_codestrap/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/116252836013163221

Über das Surfen ohne Ad-Blocker und den traurigen Zustand von Zeitungs-Websites:

„It’s like going to a restaurant, ordering a cheeseburger, and they send a marching band to your table to play trumpets right in your ear and squirt you with a water pistol while trying to sell you towels.“

RE: https://mastodon.social/@eff/116257452882605463

Best way to re-write history is to erase it first.

In 2013 Aaron Swartz committed suicide for facing 35 years in prison for mass downloading scientific articles.

13 years later, Meta is almost getting away with an infraction orders of magnitude larger.

The law didn't change.

https://torrentfreak.com/uploading-pirated-books-via-bittorrent-qualifies-as-fair-use-meta/

"It writes boilerplate faster."

Is that all we aspire to now? Not abstraction or templating or better language design, just... output boilerplate faster.

It's depressing.

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