Alt. Profile @Th4tGuyII
All of this is fairly obvious to someone not wearing a MAGA hat.
Productivity per person has increased since the 80’s, but wages have not followed - rather they have remained largely stagnant.
As such, the increased profits are instead going into an increasingly small amount of very rich people’s pockets
In its current state, no… Saying its terrible for the environment and wider economy is an understatement, and the tech industry is so desperate to recoup their money on AI that they’ve allowed it to work its way into everything - often enshittifying things in the process.
When this bubble eventually reaches its limit and bursts, I imagine these AI tools will be forced to recede into their actually useful and profitable niches - and that’s when they’ll start being justifiable to me at least.
How did we manage to move almost completely away from Pseudo-random password generation, only to come straight back to it via LLMs again.
People will really just shove these things into anything like they’re a bloody panacea, when really they’re just extremely well-trained parrots.
Honest a case of “Well Duh”.
Proton is for data privacy, not true anonymity. They’ll keep your data safe from data collectors and the like, but they still have to comply with the law if they want to continue being a business.
So ofc if you pay for your Proton account by conventional means tied to your identity, then your details are tied to your account. Proton says as much on their website.
The only way around that is to use a service like Posteo that accepts posted cash or cryptocurrency - where they physically can’t know who you are. But even then you’re busted if you ever access that account without a VPN… which you would also have to pay for with cash or cryptocurrency, and hope to god they have a robust no-logs policy.
What a terribly bad faith argument. Not a single bit of that actually matters to the substance of this discussion.
My direct input on this keyboard is what ends up on the screen. My interpretation, my words, my creative decisions (or lack thereof), and my mistakes.
You AI is instructed by you. It takes your words and interprets them according to its own training data. It uses its own words, its creative decisions, and makes its own mistakes.
If you can’t see the difference between those two things, and why someone might think a person having done the latter but claiming the former might be seen as insulting, then there’s no point in having this discussion.
As I said in my reply directly to you, I don’t have an issue with vibe-coding itself.
And I do understand that our interactions of the world are mediated by tools, but those tools are things we use to assist in our direct input.
… And even independent tools like autocompletion requires me to actually type the words I intend to use. I have a direct input on what the autocompletion does, because its completing my words, not typing them for me.
Prompting an AI to do something isn’t actually doing the thing, it’s managing another entity that does the thing for you. It’s a tool, but it’s a tool that thinks entirely for itself.
So when vibe-coders say the “coded” something the AI produced, or vibe-artists say they “drew” something an AI generated, it grinds my gears - because its not the same, and will never be.
If you code enough, if you draw enough, you get better at it. If you prompt an AI enough, you don’t get better at either of those things - you just get better at prompting the AI.
Yes, because I directly typed on that keyboard. My fingers pressed each and every key to make each and every letter of this text you’re reading.
The keyboard is a tool to interface with a computer, in the same way you need a hammer to push a nail, a screwdriver to drive a screw, or a knife cuts through things.
I didn’t ask somebody else to go hammer the nail, screw the screw, or cut the thing then take credit for doing the thing I didn’t do.
Managing a process isn’t the same as doing the process, and in the same way, prompting an AI to make code for you isn’t the same as actually making that code, and never will be.
Edit:
I should say I don’t actually have anything against Vibe-coding itself, apart from the environmental implications of AI, and for personal projects I imagine it’s probably quite useful.
What grinds my gears is when people say “they” coded something, knowing full well they didn’t write a single line of code. It’s like Vibe-artists saying they “drew” something DALI made.
Its fine to do it, but just admit that’s what you did, rather than trying to take credit for a thing you didn’t do.
tinkerer built an app to control their own device with a PlayStation controller.
who used Claude Code to reverse engineer the protocol
Did they build it though? Sounds like vibe-coding to me
the problem does not lie in the encryption used by the robot vacuum when communicating with its server, but that all the data is stored in plain text and can easily be read by anyone who gains access to the server.
Having said that, this is atrocious!
What’s the point in encrypting user data in transit if you’re just gonna leave it unencrypted at rest??
If you’re going to store user data, at least have the decency to make sure its protected against malicious actors.
It’s very lucky that the person who discovered it was a vibe-coding good Samaritan, rather than somebody willing to exploit it for money
Watched the clip, and its absolutely him. Same voice, same jokes, same meandering.
How anyone could think it’s not him is a mystery
Excluding first setup, if it takes me longer to prep the big screen than the time I’d spend watching on it, then the phone wins. Otherwise, I’ll find a bigger screen.
Man, not a good look for a company who boasts about the repairability of their phones to hide key software repair tools behind an arbitrary paywall - especially when required because of their own faulty update via their official channels.
This is why I never recommend updating devices straight away. Give time for the dust to settle and major faults/vulnerabilities to be ironed out first.
If anything in the stupid rumour-mill that is modern mainstream news can be true, can it please be that this AI bubble bursts in spectacular .COM style
Because it is much less mentally taxing to believe that the world is meritocratic and fair, than to realise that your outcome in life is oftentimes just as dependent on where you’re from, who you know, and pure dumb luck.
“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life.” - Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek.