- Yeah. I've got some EE coworkers that are vibe coding their way through everything and nothing in the codebase is understandable.
We're going to have to go through another quality hangover I suspect.
But since people that have never coded are now coding and think it's the best thing ever the only way out is through.
- Yeah. I unfortunately moved to an APU where code size isn't an issue so I never got the chance to see how well that analysis translated to the work I do.
Provocative talk though, it upends one of the pillars of deeply embedded programming, at least from a size perspective.
- This feels a lot like trying to sanitize database inputs instead of using prepared statements.
- It only ends up in the DNA if it helps reproductive success in aggregate (at the population level) and is something that can be encoded in DNA.
Your comparison is nonsensical and simultaneously manages to ignore the billion or so years of evolution starting from the first proto-cell with the first proto-DNA or RNA.
- You're communicating ideas across unknown thousands of miles with a stranger in near realtime and are able to comprehend each other, for one.
No cat or dog has managed that feat yet.
No cat or dog has managed to reproduce fire to the degree that evolution has changed their gut to adapt to the increase in available calories.
The big brain comes with down sides, but one thing it does have is utility.
Germ theory of disease has made it so a scratch isn't fatal anymore. Why, after all, do cats play with their prey? To tire it out so there's less chance of injury when they go in for the kill.
We just figure out how to farm it instead and mold it to our needs.
- That's still ignoring the impact on bicyclists, pedestrians, and cars it can't detect because it's not a spherical cow on a uniform plane.
Look at the output of a car from 10 years ago, 20 years ago, and 30 years ago compared to today.
Each is progressively dimmer with their low beams. Modern low beams are brighter than the high-beams of yesteryear!
- It's solving the wrong problem, and doesn't help the typical situation of being on hills, pedestrians, bicyclists, etc.
Just turn the damn maximum output down.
- The difference is THEY DID IT.
Photoshop is not real.
This was real.
This was recorded.
The value is in the authenticity and execution of a cool idea no one else has done before.
- DNG isn't exactly rarely used, it's Adobe's open raw format and lots of image processing programs read and write it.
It's not a codec made for one game back in 1994, it's still in very active use today if you're using such a rare and uncommon program as Photoshop.
- Old reddit is unfortunately just a rounding error. I weep for the day they decide to kill it.
- Seriously.
Binary search is one of the first things you learn in algorithms, and in a well-managed branch the commit tree is already a sorted straight line, so it's just obvious as hell, whether or not you use your VCS to run the bisect or you do it by hand yourself.
"Hey guys, check it out! Water is wet!"
- No, I still want the option of sticking with the old version if I decide that I'm done for now and for it to continue working.
I want to own my software, not rent it.
- I paid for v1 and v2, and would have happily paid for v3.
The reason I’m not using Adobe is to avoid their onerous subscription.
If Affinity has moved to a subscription model then why bother not using the incumbent?
- Attractive to look at and information dense for an expert are two very different things that I think modern UI design has forgotten about.
Everything is simplified down to a stupid hamburger menu if you want to do anything off the happy path.
- Yeah, my experience is that when they do work they'll get the job done but the design is going to be unmaintainable garbage unless I force my own design on it.
- It's tiny and inhospitable, but it's beautiful like the inhospitable beauty of the high desert--but with snow. The pop of color of the houses against the the bedrock they're built on, the orange spray of lichen on the granite, the site of brightly colored red sails on tourist boats radiant as the sun punches through the fog, the incredible glaciers and density of snow and ice as it exits the mouth of the fjord, the site of an iceberg tipping over as it melts...
It's not somewhere you go if you want to enjoy architectural masterpieces, but the harsh beauty of a place like that can't be understated.
- "little choice"
- How many of those jobs are for people with 0 experience?
- It’s a nice idea, but evidence needed. We’re still plains apes underneath it all, and that has implications about our ability to plan long term, cooperate in groups larger than 1000, and especially cooperate with groups that are not part of what we perceive to be our in-group.
As witnessed by worldwide developments over the last 15 years.
Or all of human history if I’m taking a broader scope.
That has not been my experience when using Codex, Composer, Claude, or ChatGPT.
Things have just gotten to the point over the last year that the undefined behavior, memory safety, and thread safety violations are subtler and not as blindingly obvious to the person auditing the code.
But I guess that's my problem, because I'm not fully vibing it out.