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@valigo the problem is that maybe 0.01% of AI users check every line, let alone rigorously ensure that it's up to a standard. AI usage and being rigorous is an oxymoron.

Vibecoding is when you let LLMs generate code and you accept it as long as the end result appears to be working. You don't even review the code, you don't care. When you rigorously ensure that generated code is up to a standard, it's not vibecoding anymore. It's programming.

@yooomamaa123 @clashreport 1) built for surveillance. 2) that ship has sailed, can't do moon landing which was done 60 years ago. 3) due to sanctions on russia 4) money printer requires gambling

@clashreport Objectively, the USA is more powerful than it was in 2015. People who think this watch cable TV. 1) leading the globe in AI infrastructure and global compute 2) leading the world in space (starlink etc) 3) world’s largest energy exporter 4) world’s deepest capital market

Francis Fukuyama on the U.S. as a declining power: American decline is a direct product of Trump's rise since 2016. It is as if Trump had decided to do everything in his power to weaken the United States vis-à-vis China. He has polarized an already polarized country, cut funding for basic scientific research, and attacked American universities which are the best in the world. He and his colleagues have openly stated that their domestic opponents — the Democrats — are a far greater threat to the future of the United States than either China or Russia. There is agreement among America's friends and rivals that the United States has become something of a rogue state that is contributing to global instability and disorder — as well as something of a laughingstock.

@satory_ua @rtroar Nono, you don't understand. It beats every other program on ALL the metrics

@rtroar 100% agent written c++ is a recipe for disaster

My acoustics project is 100% agent written c++. It’s also beating every current industry leader on every metric I’m measuring: memory use, cpu use, binary size, perceptual performance, developer ergonomics. Not being able to vibe code c++ is a skill issue.

@transfigure_me @durov At least he's not advertising encrypted messages by default which can be read by anyone at his company. Good job shilling for zuck the cuck

@durov Buddy, your encryption is not enabled by default and all your messages are sent through centralized servers. Please refrain from providing us with advice.

WhatsApp encryption is a giant fraud. The state of Texas just sued WhatsApp for lying to users about privacy — because WhatsApp employees have access to “virtually all” private messages. Now we know what WhatsApp’s founder meant when he said he “sold his users’ privacy.”

@steipete "If you refuse to use my vibe coded slop, you are radical leftist anti technologist"

This seems more ideological than technical.

@varrogep @LundukeJournal @dhh If your release is 30k lines of new code, it is definitely not "smart use", just like 99.9% of ai usage

@LundukeJournal @dhh Vibecoding means that you scream at the agent when it won't compile but otherwise don't even look at the code. "AI use" is a spectrum and there are smart ways and dumb ways of doing it.

Everywhere you turn in Linux, major projects are going AI / Vibe coded. According to @DHH, the next release of Omarchy Linux is “30,000 lines of new code. The majority of it was written by GPT5.5”.

@TheFl0orIsLaVa @durov on a salary of 100k gross, you get 58k netto in germany - that's 42%. What are the actual numbers if not around 50%? "Full-time employees in Germany face a net average tax and social security rate of approximately 38% to 48% of their gross wage"

@durov The "Europe pays 50% tax" crowd would never survive a conversation with actual numbers.

🇦🇪 Dubai is full of traffic and crowds again. Already missing the Iranian fireworks — they helped clear the city of the easily impressed. The UAE’s air defenses proved excellent under fire. For 0% tax, we get better protection than Europeans paying 50%.

@CDisillusion Fuck off, you inbred bot

Ok, Imma explain the admiral neck shadow thing. (Spoilers: it's not a rubber mask, ya weirdos)... 🧵

@witter_dude @bryanrbeal @curmudgeon_x Burgers are coping with the fact they're living in a drug-infested shithole.

They are not. It’s a bogus diagram built on different measures. US figures are from clinically established heat strokes while European figures are based on a statistically estimated excess deaths during heat waves. It means that people in Europe dying from e.g. cardiovascular diseases but where heat stress is a factor will be counted in.

The craziest statistic you will hear all year: more Europeans die from summer heat than Americans die from guns

@jkrajewski @Jonathan_Blow Or maybe it lets you write shit code full of bugs, which is why we're seeing all popular software falling apart?

@Jonathan_Blow Have you used recent versions for coding? It lets you write code faster and often better, but there are many layers between that and an up-tick in consumer sentiment that are unaffected by faster written code.

If LLMs really made workers more productive in a general way, as is claimed, and this had been going on for a couple of years, as is claimed, wouldn’t we expect to see a boost to the economy and an uptick in consumer sentiment, rather than like, historic lows?

@SaadInCyber And these retards are always eating the shittiest, most nutrient-void pieces of meat. Every shitty meal is chicken breast or brisket smoked for 2 days, disgusting

All you need to know about the great power competition bw US and China is that working age adult Americans are competing on who can eat most like a medieval peasant while China is essentially serving the equivalent of a 3 course meal to every middle school kid.

@lukOlejnik "here some random shit about why you shouldn't use this app through which we can't spy you. Remember, you should only use soy-approved apps like signal or whatsapp so glow can look at all your messages."

DO NOT use Telegram in sensitive applications. Telegram does not need to have its message encryption broken for users to be tracked at the network layer. Telegram sends MTProto over unencrypted TCP, exposing auth_key_id - a long-lived identifier tied to the client’s authorisation key. An ISP, hotel WiFi operator, mobile carrier, transit provider, or surveillance system on the network path can see that identifier if they can observe the traffic. It can remain stable across app restarts, IP changes, VPN use, network switches, and location changes. Secret Chats protect message content, but this leak is below that layer. That makes the attack passive. The risk is in retroactive correlation. Think a journalist using Telegram from different networks for months, then joining hotel or corporate WiFi under a real name. That one identity anchor could make old logs searchable for the same auth_key_id. The fix is simple - mandatory transport encryption for all MTProto connections, with no unencrypted fallback. Telegram chose not to do this. Source: @kaepora symbolic.software/pdf/gnmx-01.pdf

@tiagozip_ @hd_nvim are you retarded? no one in their right minding is taking a dependency on million lines of untested, unchecked slop.

@hd_nvim really sad to see them dropping support for a great and perfectly fine runtime because of pure speculation

yt-dlp plans to drop support for Bun Reason: it is vibe-coded

@vxunderground you don't need a CS degree to recognize a malware, dijkstra

This is a really interesting thread. Based on this post, the quoted-post, comments, subsequent posts, and sub-threads, gamers seem to not to understand: - What Direct Memory Access (DMA) means - What "kernel-mode" means - What an anti-cheat really does - What a computer is

I don't want to be Balkan, Central European, Eastern European, Mediterranean or whatever I want to physically move the entire landmass of inner and outer Croatia to the Pacific

@jeremybernier Thanks for sharing, good to know fb should be avoided. Fuck the boomers gaslighting you by saying you are dishonest and should be thanking the company which just fired you.

Meta was easily the most toxic company I've worked for. There's a reason the Chinese call it "Squid Game". Others refer to it as "Hunger Games" or "Lord of the Flies". I think they're all accurate. The company culture is basically every man/woman for themselves. The performance review process (PSC) not only doesn't incentivize helping others, if anything it actually discourages it since everyone is stack ranked against each other. Imagine working on a team where every 6 months, one of you is going to get axed. Of course it's going to become toxic. "Bottoms up" culture is a complete farce - it's just a way for leadership to offload accountability. The Tech Leads (TLs) have all the power - owning the relationships and tribal knowledge to gatekeep projects to their buddies. Managers are "people managers" with limited technical understanding, who basically aggregate TL feedback and create performance review packets to calibrate with other managers and IC7+. The takeaway is that your destiny is in the hands of the TLs, and TLs unlike managers have no responsibility for your career. There are no repercussions for unethical behavior. I've seen managers and TLs throw others under the bus and get away with it. The only mission bonding the company together is individual self-preservation. Save your own ass to survive for another stock vesting, and throw someone else under the bus if you need to. That's why layoffs rarely impact directors/VPs or tenured IC7+ despite the fact that they're paid by far the most. Even this recent mass layoff that was supposed to "flatten" managers layers barely affected directors/VPs/IC7+, and fell predominantly on M1s - the lowest rung of the management chain. The culture is extremely performative and focused on box ticking and optics. Everything is about PSC (the performance review system) and perception. This means tons of meetings, useless AI slop posts, and top-down initiatives that don't benefit anyone but maybe help tick off the impact box of some go-getter at the top. Impact is not enough - it has to have sufficient complexity. So complexity is added for complexity's sake. The org I was in (Facebook ads) is 90% Chinese, and the entire leadership chain up to the VP level is Chinese. Mandarin is the primary language at the office, except in official meetings with non-speakers. Chinese work culture is very different from American work culture, with 996 (9am-9pm, 6 days/week), top-down nature, emphasis on saving face (eg. don't question your superiors), and toxicity being quite common. Naturally when an org is completely dominated by a single ethnicity that's notorious for not integrating, elements from their work culture seep in. Of the layoffs I witnessed in this org, 3/4 were not Chinese (just to be clear, most Chinese are very kind so don't take this as an attack. But it is a reality that I think most people outside this company are completely unaware of, and I question if leadership is even aware despite the fact that we're talking about the company HQ) I had the most toxic manager of my life here. I watched him deliberately set up a new hire to fail, driving them to needing to see a psychiatrist for anxiety + depression, and getting them fired. Then he suddenly disappeared for 8 months, before leaving the company. I could go on and on, but this is already pretty long and I think you get the point. Yes there are a lot of great, kind people here. I managed to transfer out of my first team into a new team with a great manager where everyone was very smart, supportive, and hardworking. But the company has its Squid Game reputation for a reason. Company culture comes from the top. It seems leadership is either too removed to notice, or maybe don't really care anymore because I guess they already made their billions and us plebs are expendable these days.

@owickstrom Whenever I give it a shot, it just produces shit. Then I try to start clean from another branch and then it does the same but in a different way. Some things are good on branch A, some on branch B, but I use so much time to merge the good stuff, might as well do it myself.

Maybe I'm dating and deprecating myself in a single stroke, but I genuinely struggle seeing a productivity increase from agentic coding. I try, I retry, like every 2-3 weeks. I always end up tired and slow, either from hand-holding in real time or spending hours undoing the slop.

@mlajtos_mu @0xglitchbyte Dude got roasted by Dijkstra and turned salty

@0xglitchbyte “Arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.” — Alan Kay (the Californian from the original quote)

Wise words

@MarshallsFolly @jimstewartson "With nothing but the problem statement". Nothing, apart from training on all existing attempts and solutions of this problem, and world class mathematicians doing the prompting.

@jimstewartson I think this argument held water until an OpenAI model solved an open problem in mathematics with a novel approach with nothing but the problem statement, in a counterintuitive way.

It’s upsetting to watch so many people be led to believe a software feature created from human exhaust is an alien intelligence. It’s a psyop. LLMs are a clever way to compress and search large databases with patterns. They have now inhaled effectively all of human knowledge. From this point, there will be spikes of improvement in narrow areas, but the big models are already collapsing from inhaling their own exhaust. The core technology is at least 40 years old. Neural networks are nothing new. We’re just attaching obscene amounts of computing and data to them. The physical nature of an LLM is literally just a database of tokens (word parts) and weights (relationships) that can be queried. It is not magic. It can be made deterministic by setting the entropy aka temperature to zero. It is a clever way to store an immense amount of data and retrieve it through token predicting. “Agents” are just LLMs being queried in a loop. They take exponentially more energy and suffer the same problems as chatbots—hallucinations and sycophancy—but exponentially more complicated to solve. In reality, it’s all a category error. It’s a mirage created by the desire of a small group of elites to build a technological and financial moat around themselves. “AGI” is the McGuffin, the plot device, to serve as the messiah that will deliver people from the toils of everyday life. The broligarchs are trying to sell us our own replacements. According to them, we won’t have to drive, or work, or think anymore. The robots and AI will all do it for us. It’s the oldest con there is: magic beans. Your chatbot is not your Jesus or your girlfriend. Your Claude instance is not intelligent. It’s a search engine for human knowledge stolen from the internet and the destruction of physical books. So please understand. You are witnessing the biggest financial bubble in all of human history based on deceptive marketing, astroturfing, and cult dynamics. You are not witnessing the birth of a new intelligence. Unfortunately, that’s a battle we’re losing.

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