Seriously. It's just gross.

SI as an acronym is already very widely used globally, so it annoys me that it's encroaching on a more useful acronym also.

Great way to have people tell on themselves, however.

A red flag doesn't even describe it. It's more like a jolly roger or a hazmat placard. They are announcing their tacit support for an idiot fascist.

Spreadsheet Impersonator?

So his brain melted?

He thinks the LLM has personhood? Or feelings?

Fucking moron

robophobic exclusionary behaviour

good punk band name

oh god he's lost in the sauce.

Yikes

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 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.

Sans Intelligence.

Its been shitty before vibecoding

Heck, go use GitHub for a day

He was always dubious tbh

Edit: I love Linux but it's really only great because it's unix based and it's really the only other option

Vibe coding is, by definition, not coding. It is the exclusive authorship of code by AI, specifically by a lazy developer. Yolo coding would be a better term, in hindsight

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.

The web crashed.

Look at it now.

It's just the whole dam breaking, really. First the support then everything else, until there is nothing anymore.

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.

Sure in principle you could check all the output the AI shits out to see if it's right and then spend time correcting it either by hand or by prompting some more. And in doing so, one might be able to do more in a given amount of time, or less. Recent studies have shown it might have felt like programmers were able to do more, but in reality did less in the same time. But that might vary from person to person and the given tasks.

However that skips over other issues:

Reading and understanding code is so much harder than writing code. This has been known for decades. So instead of doing the easier task of writing the code yourself, you are left with reviewing and understanding the generated code. This add a lot of extra cognitive load, which can lead to fatigue quickly. This fatigue feeds into another issue, where it's so much easier to just hit approve on everything and skip out on the really in depth stuff. People tend to slack and just glance at the code, which is a huge trap, because LLMs are very good at writing code that looks right, regardless of if it is right.

Then there's the issue where writing the code is a small part of the task usually. There's also understanding the task and figuring out edge cases. It's hard to do that all up-front and at least for me, while writing the code I think of edge cases or get a deeper understanding of the task. By flying through the writing part, the deeper understanding gets skipped as well.

And the issue of bias, where it's often a lot better to think about an open question instead of a multiple choice question. With vibe coding it's very easy to be lead down a path by the LLM, where it suggests a path which seems logical, but might actually be wrong. Then breaking out of that path can be hard. This might be an actual wrong path, or it might just stifle creativity. A common complaint is all AI generated stuff "feels" very samey, which makes sense because LLMs are designed to see common patterns in a lot of the data. The more common a pattern is, the more likely the LLM is to suggest it.

Another very common issue with LLMs is they tend to touch stuff they shouldn't. This is because of how they work is by processing everything as a stream of text. So let's say I want to expand a template with a new part, it has no choice but to read the entire template and then output the entire template as well. It's supposed to just add the new part, but often it makes other changes as well. And this happens on a multiple-file base as well.

One big issue I've noticed is the regression of skills for people who use AI for their work (coding or other). It's so tempting to just press the big green EASY button on just about any task. But then when the AI isn't able to do the task right, people are stumped and are no longer able to do the things they used to be able to do for decades before. Especially with coding, it isn't like riding a bicycle where once you know how, you are able to do it forever. It's a lot more like a muscle you need to keep excising and if you don't it's going to lose power and capabilities.

And we're not even touching other issues with LLMs in general, like concentration of power, vendor lock-in, obfuscated pricing, resource usage, (un)fair use of source data, hallucinations, manipulation, destruction of the internet etc.

So for me the people who say: "It's just a new tool, you wouldn't go back to hand punching paper tape right!??!!?" are being very disingenuous about the actual issues. Sure it's just a new tool, but one with real consequences to using it. As with every tool we need to weigh the pros and cons and just because it's available, doesn't mean we have to automatically use it. We still see people enjoying a command line or text-based interface, even though most people use graphical interfaces. And I personally code without any form of autocomplete, because I find it annoying and distracting. Just because tools exist, doesn't mean we should all use them and it certainly doesn't mean we should be blind to the downsides attached to certain tools.

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.

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

No he doesn't.

Linux is not vibe coded but for some reason claim it is but macOS isn't. I see no basis for either assertion.

Has anyone noticed how AI boosters sound like rapists?

so are those of us who reject it.

preferably as open source models no one cares about that are seen as the useless slop makers they are

^ Non-believer in regulatory power.

It's a hype cycle like any other. Some changes will last, others won't.

- Refrigerant manufacturers in the 1980s