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[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 63 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Oooh so clever, call it bubble so when people search ai bubble…

I mean it’ll probably work on some people…

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

jokes on you, google chatbot won't know about it because it was made past cutoff date

[–] nixukty@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 weeks ago

kid named web search tool

[–] Thorry@feddit.org 39 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Oh no! Our AI bot creates terrible code! We are doomed!

But sir, what if we simply don't show the code to users?

Dammit Jenkins, you did it again! You are a genius!

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

Dammit ~~Jenkins~~ Gemini, you did it again! You are a genius!

Fixed that for you.

[–] toynbee@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

Like serverless applications ...

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 28 points 3 weeks ago

you might think that there's a bubble

[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Ok, I am old and not a techy person… I thought “vibe code” was a bad thing? So, is this ad saying “shitty code without the code?” So it’s just shitty? Or is my understanding of “vibe coding” wrong and it’s a good thing?

[–] scutiger@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Vibe coding typically needs to be double-checked to make sure that it does what it's actually supposed to because LLMs are notoriously prone to hallucinations. This ad suggests that their AI is better and you don't need to double check it.

But what's probably more likely is that they're just trying to break searches for "ai bubble."

[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I see, thank you for explaining. So, shitty AI company making shitty ads about probably a shitty product.

[–] laz@pawb.social 4 points 3 weeks ago

So business as usual :')

[–] SirActionSack@aussie.zone 5 points 3 weeks ago

LLMs are notoriously prone to hallucinations

It's all hallucinations. Sometimes the hallucinations are close enough to reality to be useful.

[–] SatyrSack@quokk.au 9 points 3 weeks ago

Before current AI/LLM shenanigans, there were a lot of "no code" visual programming solutions aimed at allowing novices to write software without using any code. Software like Microsoft Power Automate, which provides users with a list of predefined commands which they can drag-and-drop onto a flowchart. When a user clicks the play button, the commands in the flowchart execute in order.

This sort of system is great for novices, allowing people who do not have experience programming (people like you, apparently) to create simple programs that do useful things. But they are not great for experienced developers. As a project grows in complexity, so does the need to get into the code itself and tinker around to fix the nitty gritty details. But these visual programming solutions do not offer the ability to fix the nitty gritty. You are stuck only refining the high-level details, which is often not enough to solve your problem.

Traditional vibe coding with languages like JavaScript, C++, etc. can potentially work because an LLM spits out actual programming code that ostensibly does something. And if a developer needs to tweak that code to work a little differently, they hypothetically can.

So, "vibe code without the code" probably means to speak to an LLM and have it spit out one of those minorly-editable flowcharts. You get the benefits of vibe coding and the detriments of visual programming. You don't know what to do to fix it, and you can't fix it anyway because the tools don't let you.

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It's probably some app engine that lets product teams enter prompts without even giving the option to view the code.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 19 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Calling it bubble is really tempting fate.

[–] green_goglin@thelemmy.club 3 points 3 weeks ago

We’ve officially jumped the shark.

[–] blackjam_alex@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I'm yoinking this image

[–] plutopos@lemmy.zip 18 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Imagine getting doxxed because someone recognized the subway tiles

[–] Sergio@piefed.social 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

When I was in Boston they had screen ads like that and the tiles look familiar. Might be NYC? Not many other options in the US, idk about other countries. I don't think you can dox someone just knowing that they're white and they ride the T.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

NGL I was gonna say this looks like a T-Stop. Maybe Kendall or South Station?

[–] misterbngo@awful.systems 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I was thinking South station/downtown crossing, kendall doesn't have the division like that and has the tubular bells

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

Didn't they just redo kendall outbound tho?

It's been a while...I work in that area but wfh 99% of the time and drive in like 0.75%. I don't recall if new Kendall outbound has the bells still.

[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

good luck doxxing someone in NYC lol

this looks like MTA but I'm not completely sure. the stations can look really wildly different from each other because they're maintained by 3 former train companies in a trenchcoat, with severely asymmetrical priorities

[–] schmorpel@slrpnk.net 15 points 3 weeks ago

Slop - new recipe now with more slop! Buy one AI and get a tulip bulb for free!

[–] Luisp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 weeks ago

It's like buying a memecoin called ponzi

[–] Swaus01@piefed.social 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Vibe code without the code? So... vibe everything? Hell no

Edit: "Hey bubble, how do i wipe my own ass?"

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 4 points 3 weeks ago

Pay us $100 more per month for ass wiping subscription

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

Wow the $549/month version gives access to 20 days of server logs, how generous

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I was just recently reading that the NYC subway is awash in vague weird B2B AI ads directed at nobody and they're calling it "subway slop".

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh yeah there's a lot of them and they're terrible.

I like that someone edited one so instead of saying "one click: job done" it said "one click: job gone"

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 3 weeks ago

I swear the people who deface subway ads in New York are some of the cleverest funniest sonsofbitches around.

Shipping code without anyone ever looking at it, WCGW?

[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 6 points 3 weeks ago

I first thought this was an ad for a bobba shop, and thought it was clever.

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 weeks ago

vibe code without the code

We call that vibing.

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 4 points 3 weeks ago

I miss when vibing was just taking ecstacy at raves

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 2 points 3 weeks ago

tbh most if not all ads are terrible, i actually kinda like how this one doesn't feature shitty ai generated slop images

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 1 points 3 weeks ago

Duct tape is cheap.

[–] mynameisbob@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

so stupid hahah