Every time I see a vibe coder say something along the lines of "if you haven't used these tools over the past five minutes, you don't know what they're capable of, because everything's different now!" I get a little bit perplexed.
You do know that we can see the output without using it ourselves, right? Some of us are still reviewing pull requests and reading through code repositories, y’know?
Replying to @baldur@toot.cafe
@baldur "If you haven't tried it, how can you know" is one of those takes that make me reconsider the sanity of the humanity.
Deducing something is bad before trying is one of the main purposes of the brain.
Replying to @petrikas@mastodon.online
I found myself agreeing, but then I had to stop me, because I think the difference is in the consequences and the cost.
Because in the case of LLMs, it's at worst just a rather cheap waste of time, which is bad, but (in moderate doses) fine, if that means one can end up verdict that is not just based on expectation but actual data collected in an open trial.
Of course, the people referenced here do not mean in that way. They mean it in a dismissive way. But just because they're weak, doesn't mean that we should also counter in weak dismissive ways.
Especially given that an extensive list of all the bullshit one has personally seen the clanker do is an excellent tool to hit tech bros over the head with.
Replying to @petrikas@mastodon.online
Look man, I'm just saying that to win over people that aren't already aligned, one needs these stacks of empirical data. And especially empirical data that matters to them.
I can also just not reply if that is more wanted, but it showed up in my timeline and I thought there would be some actual interest in doing something about the state of the world being bad.
Replying to @Hypfer@social.tchncs.de
I mean look at these guys:
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jamesponddotco 4 minutes ago | root | parent | next [–]
I gave Claude several pieces of writing from myself, from notes to code comments to iMessage messages with my wife[1], and asked it to write skills that match my voice. I also incorporated the humanizer[2] skill into it.
Worked like a charm. This is the prompt I used[3] to write a version for the company I own with my wife, if it helps anyone. The personal version, which lead to the `jamenizer` skill, is very similar, but has some personal details in it.
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I doubt one can reach them by talking about.. idk the environment or whatever.
If they are even real people at all and not just ghoulish caricatures.
Anyway, I'll leave you alone now
