samvines

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[–] samvines@awful.systems 8 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Misaligned incentives. You read the news to be informed. Journalists write "news* to generate clicks and "try to go viral"

I agree though, It would be great if they didn't provide oxygen to these flaming idiots

 

I thought this was worthy of it's own post rather than a sneery comment. Astral make UV which at this point is a load bearing part of the python software ecosystem. This could have a huge knock on effect on the open source community.

I for one can't wait for non-deterministic package management

"You're absolutely right, I did install the wrong package and infect your system with malware. I will try much harder next time"

[–] samvines@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

5 Tools You Can Vibe Code For Your Business In Under An Hour exactly the sort of slop from someone with a hard-on for AI, no understanding of the risks of vibe coding core parts of your business' infrastructure and guest writes for Forbes would produce.

Starts with a sickening intro that leans into "pilled" to be "down with the kids"

If you haven't joined the Claudepilled crowd, open an account and play.

Bright ideas include "copy and paste the source code from your home page into Claude" but overlooks the how to actually get those changes deployed part.

Wanna see my cool website. It's at http://localhost:1234/ take that web developers!

Then she describes building a custom internal dashboard...

Open Claude Code and describe your business. List every software tool you use. Ask it to suggest the key metrics you'd want to see from each one. Go back and forth until the list feels right. Then give it your brand guidelines and ask it to build a dashboard that displays everything. Ask for it to be password protected.

Yes that sounds like a great idea and not a car crash waiting to happen

She also describes building a customer facing onboarding site

Build a custom client-facing dashboard instead. Tell Claude Code what your onboarding process looks like step by step. Describe what information you need to collect and what your clients need to access. Ask it to build a secure portal they can log into, with automations that send them what they need and follow up to collect what you need. This is a branded, professional experience that scales without you. The emotional design matters here too: you want clients to feel held, not herded. Tell Claude that.

Yes vibe coded customer facing tools are a fantastic idea and definitely not a vector for cyber attacks nuh-uh. I'm sure it will be fine if you ask for it to be "secure" right?

FML are we in the twilight zone here?

[–] samvines@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago

Stupid sexy suicide coach

still of Homer Simpson thinking about Flanders in his sexy ski suit

[–] samvines@awful.systems 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Interestingly this 404s now. I wonder if he withdrew

[–] samvines@awful.systems 6 points 2 weeks ago

I hate the framing here "the risks outweigh.the benefits" is critihype. The survey maker shouldn't be reinforcing the general population's assumption that spicy autocomplete means that AGI is nigh.

[–] samvines@awful.systems 8 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

They're not vibe-coding mission-critical AWS modules.

  1. Yes they are

and

  1. It's worse than that, they're vibe coding critical operating system components
[–] samvines@awful.systems 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You're an AI addict who has been one shotted and you are deeply in denial about the technology. DGerard is calling your favourite drug "a bad thing"

[–] samvines@awful.systems 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Different UV! Libuv is the event loop/scheduler that powers node.js. could be a funky new way to compromise a whole bunch of node applications

Edit: typo - although "nose applications" being compromised sounds bad too.

[–] samvines@awful.systems 6 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

It turns out we didn't need that list of AI-corrupted open source projects after all...

At this rate it's actually going to be easier to make a list of projects that don't have AI...

Systemd and libuv now on the slop hype train

[–] samvines@awful.systems 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Silicon Valley is buzzing about this new idea: AI compute as compensation

These people are genuinely unhinged.

As the recent harpers article says:

"...people who should be in The Hague are giving [startups] twenty million dollars. Something bad is gonna happen here, something really fucking bad is gonna happen...”

[–] samvines@awful.systems 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I somewhat agree although when the "other shoe drops" and these things start impacting the money men they may start to realise AI isn't the magic cure they thought it was (he says kind of hopefully)

6 hours of downtime for Amazon shopping. A very simple back of a napkin calculation. They made $213.4bn in sales in q4 2025. So divide that by 90 days and then 24 hours and multiply by 6... We are talking a $0.26bn loss for 6 hours downtime... That is not an insignificant amount of money. I imagine most bosses would be screaming for heads having lost that much money in sane non-hyper-scaled businesses.

[–] samvines@awful.systems 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The prickly prince has been around for a few years and is now completely one shotted. He is exactly the sort of talentless middle manager that probably could be replaced by AI and thus believes that it really is "that good"

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