Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like

Post by simonw » Thu, May 07, 2026, 5:28 PM UTC

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OK, now do that for 369,293 stars, 76,193 forks, 138 releases and 2,133 contributors. I expect there is no number I could bring up here that won't be instantly shot down as telling "precisely nothing". My mistake for bringing up any numbers at all. OpenClaw is a good example of a completely new project written using coding agents that made a significant impression on the world and would not have been built without th…

> OK, now do that for 369,293 stars, 76,193 forks, 138 releases and 2,133 contributors. You're counting forks and stars as code metrics now? Oy. Look, those aren't nothing -- they're a decent enough proxy for popularity -- but they aren't a rebuttal to the original comment. (The other day some LLM dudebro got a bajillion stars on GH for his vibe-coded hot mess of a repo that sets three environment variables. I should…

Post by ilaksh » Thu, May 07, 2026, 5:45 PM UTC

sunrunner wrote: post #273

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30 years down the line a human will wake up in his climate controlled bed in an idyllic large scale people-zoo, think about what information he wants, and immediately his 900TB ferroelectric compute-in-memory exobrain will read his thoughts via his brain-computer-interface, and render a custom 3d visualization of that information floating in front of him. There will be no separate code stage, just neural rendering of…

> custom 3d visualization of that information floating in front of him. Eh, what a waste. Can't we just stimulate the optic nerve? Or better yet, whatever region of the brain is responsible for me being able to 'see' anything? And perhaps we can finally get smell-o-vision too.

Post by addedGone » Thu, May 07, 2026, 5:49 PM UTC

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Or at least, aware that this argument continues to be made with tenuous evidence and anecdotes. And yet, people are being more productive (actually productive) with AI. Release schedules are increasing, bugs are getting fixed faster, security issues identified and patched sooner, so on and so forth. I’m not denying (at all) that unused skills languish. I take issue with AI being characterized as a magic eraser that m…

> this argument continues to be made with tenuous evidence and anecdotes. The linked Wikipedia page has plenty of evidence and studies and you can find plenty more with a basic web search. This is not something someone just made up; if you don’t know there are a multitude of studies on the harms of social media, you haven’t looked at all. Which is fine, it’s our prerogative to not search for information, but don’t tu…

Post by fugalfervor » Thu, May 07, 2026, 5:54 PM UTC

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We do all what we can as individuals, but it's not enough. The obesity crisis is going unabated except GLP-1 drugs to clean up the mess.

we can also apply regulations but they are also not enough, otherwise people wouldn't OD on controlled substances. At one point the individual needs to start taking responsibility for their actions.

Post by themafia » Thu, May 07, 2026, 5:58 PM UTC