Did you catch the part where it crossed over into a crypto pump-and-dump scam, with Yegge's approval? And then the guy behind the "Ralph" vibe coding thing endorsed the same scam, despite being a former crypto critic who should absolutely know better?
I mean, if I, as a crypto critic, saw an opportunity to suddenly make hundreds of thousands or millions on a fully legal but shady crypto scheme - purely by piggybacking on some other loudmouth (Yegge) - I'd be very hard pressed not to take it.
Perhaps, I can't say with 100% certainty that I wouldn't if offered 50k+ just for writing a blog post. But in doing so I would also have to accept being labeled a "crypto shill" instead of "crypto critic" for the rest of my life.
Brought to you by the creators (abstractly) of vibe coding, ralph and yolo mode. Either a conspiracy to deconstruct our view of reality, or just a tendency to invent funny words for novelty
I believe agentic coding could eventually be a paradigm shift, if and only if the agents become self-conscious of design decisions and their implications on the system and its surrounding systems as a whole.
If that doesn’t happen, the entire workflow devolves into specifying system states and behavior in natural language, which is something humans are exceedingly bad at.
Coincidently, that is why we have invented programming languages: to be able to express program state and behavior unambiguously.
I’m not bullish on a future where I have to write specifications on all explicit and implicit corner and edge cases just to have an agent make software design choices which don’t feel batshit insane to humans.
We already have software corporations which produce that kind of code simply because the people doing the specifying don’t know the system or the domain it operates in, and the people doing the implementing of those specifications don’t necessarily know any of that either.
Did you catch the part where it crossed over into a crypto pump-and-dump scam, with Yegge's approval? And then the guy behind the "Ralph" vibe coding thing endorsed the same scam, despite being a former crypto critic who should absolutely know better?
Is anybody surprised all the AI influencers are doing the same thing all the crypto influencers are doing?
I mean, if I, as a crypto critic, saw an opportunity to suddenly make hundreds of thousands or millions on a fully legal but shady crypto scheme - purely by piggybacking on some other loudmouth (Yegge) - I'd be very hard pressed not to take it.
Perhaps, I can't say with 100% certainty that I wouldn't if offered 50k+ just for writing a blog post. But in doing so I would also have to accept being labeled a "crypto shill" instead of "crypto critic" for the rest of my life.
Brought to you by the creators (abstractly) of vibe coding, ralph and yolo mode. Either a conspiracy to deconstruct our view of reality, or just a tendency to invent funny words for novelty
It’s brainrot, that’s what it is.
I believe agentic coding could eventually be a paradigm shift, if and only if the agents become self-conscious of design decisions and their implications on the system and its surrounding systems as a whole.
If that doesn’t happen, the entire workflow devolves into specifying system states and behavior in natural language, which is something humans are exceedingly bad at.
Coincidently, that is why we have invented programming languages: to be able to express program state and behavior unambiguously.
I’m not bullish on a future where I have to write specifications on all explicit and implicit corner and edge cases just to have an agent make software design choices which don’t feel batshit insane to humans.
We already have software corporations which produce that kind of code simply because the people doing the specifying don’t know the system or the domain it operates in, and the people doing the implementing of those specifications don’t necessarily know any of that either.
We have programming languages because people don’t want to only write assembly.