Know a guy who tried to use AI to vibe code a simple web server. He wasn’t a programmer and kept insisting to me that programmers were done for.

After weeks of trying to get the thing to work, he had nothing. He showed me the code, and it was the worst I’ve ever seen. Dozens of empty files where the AI had apparently added and then deleted the same code. Also some utter garbage code. Tons of functions copied and pasted instead of being defined once.

I then showed him a web app I had made in that same amount of time. It worked perfectly. Never heard anything more about AI from him.

“no, having a meeting about it won’t help, it will just waste my time that I could be using to figure out the problem.”

This describes literally every python contract job I’ve ever had.

lmao what book is this?

Looks like the kidnapper also stole the null terminator for this string!

Any context on him “trashing his reputation”?

Honestly, you ever tried to look back through a long thread on Discord? It’s impossible. If you want to read the original message that started the thread, good luck, you’ll be scrolling all day and may never get there. How anyone can claim that’s “easy to use” is beyond me.

Discord works for quick discussions happening right now, and that’s it.

Don’t forget to upload them all to crates.io. Add them to the list of useless crates that no one will ever use.

I don’t really get why we need social media elements in GitHub at all

Anyone got a non-paywalled link?

Oh, is this what they meant by “commenting your code”?

Why the heck does it need to be dynamically allocated? Just put that puppy on the stack.

I would argue that in this case the maintainers are in the wrong for not even responding to the issue, not the reporter responding with memes.

I’ve seen this same thing happen with Python’s type hints. Turns out giving an “escape hatch” type for devs who have no clue what the type actually is leads to a lot of useless type hints.

Wow, I’m really disappointed, it’s just full of posts from parody accounts with people in the comments not realizing it isn’t real.

Bet you $50 we later learn this guy was orchestrating a supply chain attack.

Cheaper? Yes, I guess so, depending on how you measure cost. More useful? Absolutely disagree.

Yeah, I don’t see an option for it on Liftoff