Th4tGuyII

Well if anyone here had any doubts about Patel being a slimey cunt, this ought to put a nail through them

What a terribly bad faith argument. Not a single bit of that actually matters to the substance of this discussion.

My direct input on this keyboard is what ends up on the screen. My interpretation, my words, my creative decisions (or lack thereof), and my mistakes.

You AI is instructed by you. It takes your words and interprets them according to its own training data. It uses its own words, its creative decisions, and makes its own mistakes.

If you can't see the difference between those two things, and why someone might think a person having done the latter but claiming the former might be seen as insulting, then there's no point in having this discussion.

As I said in my reply directly to you, I don't have an issue with vibe-coding itself.

And I do understand that our interactions of the world are mediated by tools, but those tools are things we use to assist in our direct input.

... And even independent tools like autocompletion requires me to actually type the words I intend to use. I have a direct input on what the autocompletion does, because its completing my words, not typing them for me.

Prompting an AI to do something isn't actually doing the thing, it's managing another entity that does the thing for you. It's a tool, but it's a tool that thinks entirely for itself.

So when vibe-coders say the "coded" something the AI produced, or vibe-artists say they "drew" something an AI generated, it grinds my gears - because its not the same, and will never be.

If you code enough, if you draw enough, you get better at it. If you prompt an AI enough, you don't get better at either of those things - you just get better at prompting the AI.

Yes, because I directly typed on that keyboard. My fingers pressed each and every key to make each and every letter of this text you're reading.

The keyboard is a tool to interface with a computer, in the same way you need a hammer to push a nail, a screwdriver to drive a screw, or a knife cuts through things.

I didn't ask somebody else to go hammer the nail, screw the screw, or cut the thing then take credit for doing the thing I didn't do.

Managing a process isn't the same as doing the process, and in the same way, prompting an AI to make code for you isn't the same as actually making that code, and never will be.

Edit:

I should say I don't actually have anything against Vibe-coding itself, apart from the environmental implications of AI, and for personal projects I imagine it's probably quite useful.

What grinds my gears is when people say "they" coded something, knowing full well they didn't write a single line of code. It's like Vibe-artists saying they "drew" something DALI made.

Its fine to do it, but just admit that's what you did, rather than trying to take credit for a thing you didn't do.

In the nicest way possible, it's extremely naive to expect that the law makers currently benefitting from this wave of facism are going to make laws that actively hinder them from doing so.

You need a much more honest and socialist government before you get anything close to this ideal.

Personally, I think anything more than a couple of decades old is outside of spoiler-warning territory.

I still wouldn't go out of my way to spoil something like that, but I'm also not fretting about whether someone has seen it or not.

Most of the time they will have been aware of its existence, and had more than enough time to see it if they really wanted to.

If only Anthropic and other AI companies were even a little bit caring about the way they abusively scrape and pirate from websites of small creators that have no means to combat them, maybe I'd find it easier to sympathise.

As far as I see it, getting pirated themselves is just karma.

tinkerer built an app to control their own device with a PlayStation controller.

who used Claude Code to reverse engineer the protocol

Did they build it though? Sounds like vibe-coding to me

the problem does not lie in the encryption used by the robot vacuum when communicating with its server, but that all the data is stored in plain text and can easily be read by anyone who gains access to the server.

Having said that, this is atrocious!

What's the point in encrypting user data in transit if you're just gonna leave it unencrypted at rest??

If you're going to store user data, at least have the decency to make sure its protected against malicious actors.

It's very lucky that the person who discovered it was a vibe-coding good Samaritan, rather than somebody willing to exploit it for money

Because then they'd have to eat into their own profits, and they'd rather die than do that.

Easier to pressure the people they're already profitting off of to give them more money then claim "we" donated to so-and-so charity for good PR and a tax deduction.

So per usual, the UK Government incompetently went for the easy solution of treating the symptom rather than the problem, switching to a cheaper (at the time) fuel source rather than enforcing more energy efficient homes, and now the people are literally paying the price for it...

Sounds about right. Why do it the expensive way once, when you can do it the cheap way many times over.

Excluding first setup, if it takes me longer to prep the big screen than the time I'd spend watching on it, then the phone wins. Otherwise, I'll find a bigger screen.

Renting itself isn't a bad concept, but as @craipz@feddit.org it represents a tax on the poor.

Homes are becoming increasingly expensive and harder to buy in the first place, and it is no help when landlords are buying them to rent, or buying the land to build apartments on.

Its worth noting in some cities even renting is getting more difficult, as landlords pivot towards student accommodations - which they can charge a pretty penny per room for.

The modern landlord represents the rich very directly using their money to screw over the poor.