putting SI as a alternate name in apparent support for trump's dumb shit is just the cherry on top of the shitcake
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No one would have ever called it 'vibe coding' if they wanted it to be taken seriously, and/or respected.
eyes closed coding
brain nope coding
crap coding
slop coding
douche coding
hands free butt plug coding
stupor intelligence coding (sic for short)
derp coding
not coding
bro coding
kardashian koding
aihole coding...
Unrelated to his stance on AI, unironically using the term “SI” completely lost my trust in HIBP.
a feeling that those weaponising the term have now accepted
That's an interesting approach, to declare that everyone who says it "doesn't really mean it"
Linus Torvalds
Linus' take was more nuanced, I'm not sure I agree, but at the same time he was talking up AI, he also expressed that he saw it as useful for onboarding, review, and throwaway efforts in fields you don't get. Also he made the caveat that he doesn't really code the kernel so much anymore, so he explicitly stated he had lost some perspective. Also that it wasn't suitable for full-on "vibing" maintainable code. However AI bros have gone all in on feeling vindicated and feeling like Linus said the kernel should be vibe coded now.
However AI bros have gone all in on feeling vindicated and feeling like Linus said the kernel should be vibe coded now.
What I saw was mainly AI haters that couldn't form a well thought out take, saying that Linus has gone full slop and the kernel is now slop-first.
The debate was killed before even starting because one side can't express anything other than "slop", and refuse to hear the full arguments presented.
While it is a fair observation that critics also failed to recognize nuance in Torvald's take, it is a bit wild to assert that it was 'mainly AI haters' that didn't get the nuance in a post specifically about someone so pro-AI they declare that everyone agrees with their take, and even people who claim otherwise don't mean it and secretly agree with him, and that Torvalds gave an unequivocal thumbs up to full on vibe coding.
No, the anti-AI side gave plenty of well constructed arguments and rebutals about the societal effects, the limits of LLMs, the way it exploits artists, why agentic coding is unsustainable and bad, the blatant attempts at cutting income to people who are struggling like artists and designers, the complete and utter lack of care displayed by corporations and the sheer lack of respect displayed by everyone drinking the AI kool aid.
The pro-AI response has endlessly been repeating "its just a tool and its inevitable and if you dont like it you're a Luddite who's never tried or researched AI" (Even as the people who draw "anti-AI" conclusions or point out the negatives and limits of this technology turn out to have done extensive research and experimentation on machine learning and LLMs and realized that this was a dead end that was going to reach mediocrity at best) and now this narrative that the anti-AI side is disrespectful and bigoted (fucking rich coming from proponents lf a technology that has been shown to be biased against minorities from the very beginning; image recognition STILL keeps mistaking black men for apes and gemini tends to assume trans women are predators, not to mention the utter insanity that is to pretend locking everything behind models that require strong, modern computers is somehow giving power to poor countries, also the fact that most of the people behind this push are besties with Thiel, you know, the guy that is the absolute worst of all these tendencies)
We're fucking sick of the endless disrespect and self-victimization that slop makers constantly peddle and the gall to call us the ones that are delusional and disrespectful. Anyone who has seen the arguments and debates and hasnt come out with an unbridled hatred for this piece of shit that has made life in this planet worse for everyone with no benefit for anyone that isnt a corpo fuck is worthless and can go fuck themselves
Thanks for taking the time to write a complete response. I'm not pro AI but I couldn't help but see all the responses (including to my comment) that limit the thought process to AI=slop, which completely destroys any hope of civic discourse on the subject. There are many kneejerk reactions to anything AI and thought terminating cliché that makes discussing this topic highly toxic.
I see that the topic is highly sensitive for many here, and it is best to leave this community fester on its own hatred.
Is there an argument to be made other than slop? All i have seen as far as arguments for is: "this other thing is slop, so why can't I slop here?", "what if it's only a little bit of slop" or "what if I serve you slop anyway and you don't notice". I don't care if you only put a thimbleful of dogshit in your soup, it's still shit soup.
Nah there's opinionated idiots on both sides, one is organically ignorant and the other is parroting corporate published ignorance
Yeah, he's been like this for a while, here's a choice quote of his from back in April.
Demanding to “speak to a human” solely because the bot is an AI may constitute robophobic exclusionary behaviour and will not be tolerated.
So his brain melted?
He thinks the LLM has personhood? Or feelings?
Fucking moron
robophobic exclusionary behaviour
good punk band name
I would love to live in a world where robophibia is a legitimate issue we need to overcome, but that's not anytime soon.
I've been waiting my whole life to stand in the living room drunkenly yelling "No daughter of mine is going to marry this... fucking roomba!"
And she'd be all crying like 'That's why I couldn't you tell you I was robosexual, dad. You're a hypocritical bigot! Mom would roll over in her grave if she knew what you and that Bimbo4000 subscription on your desktop were doing!"
Then I'd punch a hole in the wall, which would be easy because all public housing would just be refrigerator cardboard boxes and yell "Why can't you be normal like your transmasc ace furry brother??"
Then she'd run out of the house crying and jump into her lover/Electric VTO transport that also plays in a band and burn thruster donuts in the front yard.
But nooo, we get this stupid shit going on here.
I feel like you intentionally left out some context there:
This is so "peak 2026" - writing an equality policy to ensure people treat our AI bot with the same respect as they do their human counterparts. It's intentionally a bit tongue-in-cheek, but it's there for a purpose: we simply don't have the capacity to deal with every request we get, and we need Bruce to be the coalface of support.
LOL, no.
Vibe coding is still 100% a derogatory term. Go use MS Teams for a day if you think vibe coding produces anything useful. There are new bugs every single day that we have to work around, as MS apparently vibe codes this shit AND no longer properly tests their work product before releasing it.
You're not wrong.
Jfc ms teams still sucks? How? It's been in active development for about a decade now.
I feel like I'm watching the collapse of society in real time. Even Linus fell to AI bullshittery recently.
Linus also said competent, which means it’s being tested before it’s committed, etc. This person is just fulfilling his bias. The AI cuck coders won’t be testing because they’re tired of testing AI’s fuck ups.
I wonder what’ll happen after the crash. Will people like Hunt stay in this weird mindplace where reality is bent until it breaks, or will they come back to the real world?
Talking about robophobic exclusionary behaviour and SI seems like he's developed serious mental issues.
Offtopic, but how do you get the content from a blocked embed?
usually you would click on the little shield to the left of the url bar and it would say something like "allow content from twitter".
It's a Firefox feature. It blocks external calls to social media that might track you, then adds a summary below. I'm not sure how it works. I have the "AI kill switch" thing enabled and still get the summaries, so I assume it's not using AI. At least not locally. My guess is some proxy server requests the content, summarizes it (probably with AI), then adds it to the page.
Yes I use Floorp but have never seen the summarization.
Not sure if there's any difference in Floorp. I think you need to have enhanced tracking set to strict or custom though. I have my ETP set to custom with the settings shown here, and the summary is shown automatically. (I don't need to click anything, it's just there when the page loads.) 
No shade to Troy, but he’s in the business of promotion and tech evangelism. He’s going to be on this train.
handing things over to a computer without knowing what it’s doing
So, it's very easy to understand different levels of abstractions and how the lower level abstractions fit into higher level ones.
Like the simplest adder circuit can be expressed in a series of nand gates, a nand gate can be implemented in various ways on the silicon. In the other direction, you have a group of circuits than can be driven by a clock to demarc discrete states, and the collective you have becomes memory, CPU, FPGA etc.
The "software" is similar, truth tables, machine state etc whatever it is on to the highest level software.
The act of vibe coding abdicates understanding the abstraction by the programmer, and if they take up that abdication they cease to be a programmer, or a professional in general.
Edit fixed grammer but this looks worse
you can use AI to write code, but you still have to check behind it.
And this is, in large part, why AI is an unprofitable, useless product. So much of the promised productivity is crap, because if you have to validate and test anyway, it takes less time in the end to do the work yourself. If you're building a tech product, you also need to understand how it works because you need to be able to service it properly, and frequent AI use dulls that ability too.
Every single person who uses AI, by now, has seen it hallucinate bug out often enough that it's demonstrably not something which produces trustworthy output.
Linux is not vibe coded but for some reason claim it is but macOS isn't. I see no basis for either assertion.
If Linus Torvalds' post isn't enough, I'm not sure what your criteria is for a basis, but I thought it was pretty clear.
Microsoft has also said they are using Copilot to code Windows.
There's been no claim I've seen that macOS is. If the claim is they're using Siri to do it, that's a lie right there, "Apple Intelligence" will change a "to" to a "too" and then later flag it as a grammatical error. So which is it?
Yeah, the allowance of ai use whatsoever is not "vibecoding" and it's a lie to pretend it is. His latest comment was that they had to put something in place to guard against ai aided PRs becoming too numerous. I know you've seen the backlash against the lie you're spreading, you cannot miss it here. You've just chosen to believe what you want to.
It's not likely apple has banned ai, that's just wishful thinking on your behalf. Your basis is "they didn't admit to using it" which is laughable.
If you continue to spread this misinformation here I will be forced to ban you
The genie is out of the bottle unfortunately. Ain't no putting it back. It's here to stay one way or another.
^ Non-believer in regulatory power.
Regulate it away from the poor filthy masses and let only the rich have access to the machine god!
-you
It's a hype cycle like any other. Some changes will last, others won't.
preferably as open source models no one cares about that are seen as the useless slop makers they are
They all will eventually. AI is going to own everything we have ever known. Get very used to it.
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