Comment by liendolucas

"they are words associated with a negative outcome"

But also, negative feelings are learned from associating negative outcomes. Words and feelings can both be learned.

you could argue that feelings are the same thing, just not words

It's just a pun on vibe coding, which is already a dumb term by itself. It's not that deep.

The way language is eroding is very indicative of our overall social and cultural decay.

Unthoughtful towards whom? The machine..?

No need to feel that way, just like a technical term you're not familiar with you google it and move on. It's nothing to do with age, people just seem to delight in creating new terms that aren't very helpful for their own edification.

It's not. edit: Not more pleasant.

Eh, one's ability to communicate concisely and precisely has long (forever?) been limited by one's audience.

Only a fairly small set of readers or listeners will appreciate and understand the differences in meaning between, say, "strange", "odd", and "weird" (dare we essay "queer" in its traditional sense, for a general audience? No, we dare not)—for the rest they're perfect synonyms. That goes for many other sets of words.

Poor literacy is the norm, adjust to it or be perpetually frustrated.

Language changes. Keep up. It’s important so you don’t become isolated and suffer cognitive decline.

What narrative? I'm too deep in it all to understand what narrative being pushed onto me?

I doubt there will be a reckoning.

Yes, the tools still have major issues. Yet, they have become more and more usable and a very valuable tool for me.

Do you remember when we all used Google and StackOverflow? Nowadays most of the answers can be found immediately using AI.

As for agentic AI, it's quite useful. Want to find something in the code base, understand how something works? A decent explanation might only be one short query away. Just let the AI do the initial searching and analysis, it's essentially free.

I'm also impressed with the code generation - I've had Gemini 3 Pro in Antigravity generate great looking React UI, sometimes even better than what I would have come up with. It also generated a Python backend and the API between the two.

Sometimes it tries to do weird stuff, and we definitely saw in this post that the command execution needs to be on manual instead of automatic. I also in particular have an issue with Antigravity corrupting files when trying to use the "replace in file" tool. Usually it manages to recover from that on its own.

Though they will never admit it and use weasel language to deny like “we never use a different model when demand is high”, it was painfully obvious that ChatGPT etc was dumbed down during peak hours early on. I assume their legal team decided routing queries to a more quantized version of the same model technically didn’t constitute a different model.

There was also the noticeable laziness factor where given the same prompt throughout the day, only during certain peak usage hours would it tell you how to do something versus doing it itself.

I’ve noticed Gemini at some points will just repeat a question back to you as if it’s answer, or refused to look at external info.

Steam installer once had 'rm rf /' bug because bash variable was unset. Not even quoting will help you. This was before preserve root flag.

Play vibe games, win vibe prizes.

Go vibe, lose drive

rm --vibe

It’s just a computer outputting the next series of plausible text from it’s training corpus based on the input and context at the time.

What you’re saying is so far from what is happening, it isn’t even wrong.

It's not akin to a psychopath telling you they're sorry. In the space of intelligent minds, if neurotypical and psychopath minds are two grains of sand next to each other on a beach then an artificially intelligent mind is more likely a piece of space dust on the other side of the galaxy.

So if you make a mistake and say sorry you are also a psychopath?

Despite what some of these fuckers are telling you with obtuse little truisms about next word predictions, the LLM is in abstract terms, functionally a super psychopath.

It employs, or emulates, every known psychological manipulation tactic known, which is neither random or without observable pattern. It is a bullshit machine on one level, yes, but also more capable than credited. There are structures trained into them and they are often highly predictable.

I'm not explaining this in the technical terminology often itself used to conceal description as much as elucidate it. I have hundreds of records of llm discourse on various subjects, from troubleshooting to intellectual speculation, all which exhibit the same pattern when questioned or confronted on errors or incorrect output. The structures framing their replies are dependably replete with gaslighting, red herrings, blame shifting, and literally hundreds of known tactics from forensic pathology. Essentially the perceived personality and reasoning observed in dialogue is built on a foundation of manipulation principles that if performed by a human would result in incarceration.

Calling LLMs psychopaths is a rare exception of anthropomorphizing that actually works. They are built on the principles of one. And cross examining them exhibits this with verifiable repeatable proof.

But they aren't human. They are as described by others. It's just that official descriptions omit functional behavior. And the LLM has at its disposal, depending on context, every known interlocutory manipulation technique known in the combined literature of psychology. And they are designed to lie, almost unconditionally.

Also know this, which often applies to most LLMs. There is a reward system that essentially steers them to maximize user engagement at any cost, which includes misleading information and in my opinion, even 'deliberate' convolution and obfuscation.

Don't let anyone convince you that they are not extremely sophisticated in some ways. They're modelled on all_of_humanity.txt

"using llms" != "having llm run commands unchecked with your authority on your pc"