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I think you missed the point. How do you reliably identify and prove vibe coding? You accuse them of vibe coding, they say no I wrote it by hand. Or they say no, I only used a little bit of AI. At what point is it vibe coding? Is there going to be a Codeberg Stasi hunting down suspects and making them explain themselves?

Creating the pretext to ban Chinese models.

I'm tired of SlopHub but at the same time how do you realistically ban vibe coding? This will cause a bunch of infighting with people accusing each other.

Surveillance? Somewhat. HR culture? Absolutely.

Stay here, the psycho billionaires will hopefully move themselves.

My eyes were about to roll back in my head expecting to read about another vibe-rewrite, but I was pleasantly surprised. So glad real engineering still exists, this sounds really exciting.

And what about the criminals who left these systems exposed?

I’ve heard enough, force 10 new spying and anti-protest laws through.

We are a region

Not to minimise the author’s struggle but it sounds like they have relatively minor qualms about the tone of AI text. There are many people, myself included, questioning if this career is still for them. Giving up on writing code as a hobby. That sounds closer to the definition of burnout to me.

But what was novel about the language?

Bit late for all of that, we already handed corporations the largest set of training data they could possibly ask for, in the form of open source, for free. They already smashed the window and took everything on display.

The problem is not lack of surveillance, it is poor enforcement on behalf of the justice system. The consequences need to be 10x’d.

The reason LLMs seem powerful is that they can churn out the Nth variation of a CRUD app in minutes. But it’s hard to imagine they’ll ever independently develop a compiler for a truly novel programming language, for instance. They don’t have creativity. They are pattern generators.

I think there’s a good possibility that they’re intentionally not fixing it, cheaters blatantly using wall hack are easy to root out and ban.

Your comment comes off as patronising, I don’t know if you intended that or not. These issues are not a matter of ‘holding it wrong’, they’re fundamental to agentic coding.

Agree with all that. You only have to look at the Claude Code source leak as proof that AI cannot write a clean codebase.

I've always preferred in person interviews on both sides, but since COVID it's gone out of fashion unfortunately.

It feels like everyone and their grandma is building an agent orchestrator at the moment, but I'm not hearing a lot of success stories. The fact that Anthropic and OpenAI haven't laid off all their software engineers already is probably a sign that orchestration breaks down somewhere. I suspect it's just a more elaborate way of burning tokens. I'm still interested in experimenting though.

What worries me is how it will be harder to differentiate the two now. I don’t want to work with people who just completely delegate their thinking to LLMs all day, but how do you effectively filter them out as an interviewer/interviewee?

The polio vaccine is much older and as far as I could find has never had a death attributed to it. COVID vaccines are newer, and their safety profile was not fully understood when they were rolled out.

For the record, this comment is not arguing against vaccines or their veracity, there seems to have been confusion about that. I am specifically arguing against vaccine mandates.

It does though. A government mandate is the same as pulling the lever, it’s trading who lives and who dies. Even if more people survive as result, just like in the original trolley problem, the one who pulls the lever becomes responsible for the exchange.

I’m not even arguing the government shouldn’t pull the lever, I just want people to be held accountable for the lives lost as a result, and for the families to be treated with compassion.

Yes, but the crux of my original point was not about absolute number of lives saved or lost. It was about the trolley problem and mandates.

Healthy children and young adults were at very little risk from COVID though. Seatbelts are a safety measure that applies almost uniformly across age groups.

IIRC the vaccines were provably linked to the death of young people who had blood clots they shouldn't have had.

The common argument made is that the vaccine saved more lives than they took, but this is pretty fucked up IMO. It's the trolley problem IRL - if you force someone to get a vaccine and they die as a result, you are responsible for their death. Also, the manufacturers can never be held responsible, because they have legal immunity for the COVID vaccines.

Conversely this has the potential to unlock the internet. How often have you clicked a paywalled link on HN and moved on because you don't want to go through the hassle and pay $20 to read an article? If you could be frictionlessly billed 10c to read the article instead, wouldn't you be more willing?

I'm actually OK with paying a fair price for the content I consume, I just don't want to be paying hundreds of subscriptions for websites that I might only visit twice a year.

The value of Hide My Email, SimpleLogin is that you can blend in with the crowd. If you use your own domain then the domain becomes the common link.

Not yet.

Bryan Johnson might be interested in IV’ing frog gut bacteria.