A software developer found out that the failing company they’re at, which was winding down for business reasons, decided to try becoming a zombie company by replacing its software stack (and employees) with a vibe-coded SaaS piece of garbage that’s broken in dozens of ways.

You misread what I wrote. I didn’t say it couldn’t fool me, I said I’ll never pay for it. I’m not interested in fabricated emotional connections to fake art, even if it’s faked well enough to trick me. All this means is that I’m going to be researching the bands and artists I listen to, which I already do anyways.

There really isn’t anything unique anyway in human made content

100% pure, unadulterated bullshit.

Hard disagree. I will never pay a single penny for any form of LLM-generated “art,” because the whole point of art is to share in something meaningful to the creator. There is no creator with generated slop. It’s all just unthinking and unfeeling mass plagiarism.

Actually, that account is quite good at trolling, because people keep responding to it.

Stop. Downvote it, report it to the mods, block it, and move on. Don’t feed trolls.

Not really. I’m using Copilot for my job because I’m required to, but I limit it to creating basic scripts that accomplish very specific tasks, which it’s okay at. I never let it touch my actual codebase.

Every experiment I’ve run to test how it does with real code from a large, production application has failed miserably. It introduces mocks, it duplicates stuff everywhere, it fakes shit when real APIs are available… I have no fucking idea how these “AI” companies have managed to convince so many businesses that producing catastrophically shitty code very quickly is a good thing.

There is exactly one situation in which it sort of makes sense: Copilot integrated with VS Code, running repo-specific commands like yarn build, with direct human oversight.

That’s it. That’s the only situation.

mind horse blowing.

It was right there.

You do know you can use AD with Linux, don’t you?

Welp, there went any urge I might have had to fly anywhere in the continental United States.

Assuming we survive this fascist shit as a country, one of the first things we need to do is a constitutional amendment removing the pardon power from the president and putting it into the hands of a committee with appointees from all three branches.

No. Is no okay with you, USDA? How about with a side order of fuck you?

I call bullshit. A large language model does nothing until you interact with it. You set tasks for it, it does those tasks, and when it’s done, it just waits for the next task. If you don’t give it one, it can’t act autonomously - no, not even the misnamed “autonomous agents.”

Alternate headline: Bannon tells GOP they’ve been doing just an absolute fuckton of crimes.

For people who didn’t read the whole article, you really should. It touches on the fact that Derek Huffman ended up sent to the front lines in the war against Ukraine, and for a while there were rumors he’d died there.

It also talks about another family that did the same thing and immediately got swindled out of everything, with Russia’s famously corrupt law enforcement doing nothing to help them against the swindler.

Sadly, getting sued is exactly what these hate-filled pieces of shit want. They want it to go to SCOTUS, which will merrily say, “fuck precedent, let’s make the gays stop marrying. Get back in the closet!”

Throw the actual ICE “agents” who did that into prison for kidnapping and human trafficking. There have to be consequences for shit like this.

Have some sympathy for them. After all, what other choice do they have? They spent the entire campaign and all of the Biden administration lying continuously about how many undocumented immigrants there are in the country, how frequently they cross the border, how many are dangerous… basically, their entire campaign was built on obvious, blatant lies for stupid people.

So now they don’t have any other option but to layer on additional lies about how effective ICE is and to “deport” people here legally - sometimes to countries they’ve never been in.

Have some sympathy. Being this psychotically evil is hard work!

Living up to the username, I see.

The thing is, it really won’t. The context window isn’t large enough, especially for a decently-sized application, and that seems to be a fundamental limitation. Make the context window too large, and the LLM gets massively offtrack very easily, because there’s too much in it to distract it.

And LLMs don’t remember anything. The next time you interact with it and put the whole codebase into its context window again, it won’t know what it did before, even if the last session was ten minutes ago. That’s why they so frequently create bloat.

Well, if I’m not, then neither is an LLM.

But for most projects built with modern tooling, the documentation is fine, and they mostly have simple CLIs for scaffolding a new application.