Yates Buckley

A new study just blew up the entire "vibe coding" movement. Researchers from UC San Diego and Cornell tracked 112 experienced software developers using AI agents in their actual jobs. The finding is the opposite of every viral demo on your timeline. Professional developers don't vibe code. They control. Here's what they actually found. The researchers ran two studies. 13 developers were observed live as they coded with agents in real production work. 99 more answered a deep qualitative survey. Every participant had at least 3 years of professional experience. Some had 25. The viral pitch of agentic coding goes like this. Hand the agent a vague prompt. Don't read the diff. Forget the code even exists. Trust the vibes. Andrej Karpathy coined the term. Tens of thousands of developers on X claim to run "dozens of agents at once" building entire production systems hands-off. The data says almost nobody serious actually works that way. Here is what experienced developers do instead. → They plan before they prompt. They write out the architecture, the constraints, and the edge cases first, then hand the agent a tightly scoped task. → They review every diff. Not because they're paranoid. Because they've seen what happens when you don't. → They constrain the agent's blast radius. Small, well-defined tasks only. The moment a problem touches multiple systems or has unclear requirements, they take over. → They treat the agent like a fast junior dev that needs supervision, not a senior engineer that can be trusted alone. The researchers also found something darker buried in the data. A separate randomized trial they cite showed that experienced open source maintainers were 19% slower when allowed to use AI. A different agentic system deployed in a real issue tracker had only 8% of its invocations result in a merged pull request. 92% failure rate in production. 19% productivity drop for senior devs. The viral demos lied to you. The paper's biggest insight is in one sentence: experienced developers feel positive about AI agents only when they remain in control. The moment they let go, quality collapses, and they know it. This matches what every serious shop has quietly figured out. The developers shipping the most with AI right now aren't the ones vibing. They're the ones with the strictest review processes, the tightest task scoping, and the clearest mental model of what the agent can and cannot do. Vibe coding makes for great Twitter videos. It does not make great software. The next time someone tells you they let Claude build their entire SaaS in a weekend, ask them how much of that code they've actually read. The honest answer separates real engineers from the demo crowd.

Is COVlD going away or... Are we about to get slammed by the BA.3.2 variant? 🔥🔥🔥

Summer hasn't even started yet and we already see 50°C.

Anthropic just pulled Claude Code from the Pro plan. Pro users wanting it need Max now. $100/month minimum. 5x jump. I'm on Max 20x so I'm fine. Flagging for anyone on Pro who's about to find out. No announcement. Just a pricing page edit.

When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.

a masterclass in coding agents from the head of anthropic. there’s still a tonne of leverage in knowing how to use these systems optimally and this is the best i’ve seen. make sure to bookmark so you can watch again and again chat

This phenomenon of delayed deaths from post-infection sequelae is not new. We also saw it following the 1918 flu pandemic, as this Australian data shows. Just as deaths from most other causes plummeted due to medical advances, deaths from heart disease exploded after 1918. 👇🏻

non-survivable conditions are occurring during present-day heat events, all of which are below 35oC wet-bulb temperature. Of concern is regular exceedances of deadly thresholds for older people directly exposed across all events. Moreover, extremely hot yet dry conditions are found to be just as deadly as hot and humid conditions. For future climatological assessments, we emphasise the importance of employing increasingly accurate physiology-derived methods to assess the risk of potentially deadly heat stress.

Mark Zuckerberg just described the death of human connection on the internet and no one flinched. One sentence. Fifteen years of erosion in twelve words. Mark Zuckerberg: “Social media started out as people primarily interacting with their friends. And now… at least half of the content is basically people interacting with creators.” You used to open your phone to see what your friends were doing. Now you open it to watch strangers. You did not choose this. The algorithm chose it for you. It tested your friends against optimized strangers. Your friends lost. Every time. A stranger with better lighting, better timing, and a better hook held your attention three seconds longer than someone who loves you. So the algorithm buried your best friend’s wedding photos under a cooking video from someone in Dubai you have never met. And you watched the cooking video. That was the first replacement. Friends for strangers. You barely noticed. The second one is already underway. If the algorithm already proved strangers outperform your real relationships, and AI can now build a stranger more engaging than any human alive, the math finishes itself. The AI does not have a bad week. It does not post something careless and lose the algorithm’s favor. It does not burn out. Every word calibrated. Every frame tuned. Every pause placed at the exact interval that keeps your thumb from moving. A human creator competing against that is carving stone tablets in a world that just built the printing press. The economics are not even close. A person needs rent, sleep, and motivation. The machine needs electricity. When the cost of generating perfect content hits zero, the feed fills with faces that do not exist. Voices that feel familiar. Opinions that mirror yours just enough to feel like trust. Personalities built from scratch to feel like someone you have known for years. You will not know when the switch happens. That is the point. The feed does not care whether the thing holding your attention has a pulse. It cares whether you stay. And a machine that knows your patterns better than you know yourself will always keep you longer than a person ever could. This is not a warning. Half of it already happened. You lost your friends to strangers and did not notice. You will lose the strangers to machines and call them friends. Somewhere in a different app, in a different tab, in a room you are sitting in right now, someone who actually knows you is living a moment you will never see. Not because they stopped sharing it. Because you stopped being where it was.