Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party?
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Re: Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party?
#2https://archive.ph/854yJ
Their assertion that cURL is used to fetch the web page you're reading seems...misplaced. Browsers almost certainly do not use libcurl to fetch web pages. Though I do agree that libcurl is ubiquitous.
Re: Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party?
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Re: Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party?
#4https://archive.ph/854yJ Their assertion that cURL is used to fetch the web page you're reading seems...misplaced. Browsers almost certainly do not use libcurl to fetch web pages. Though I do agree that libcurl is ubiquitous.
Thanks, learned something.
Re: Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party?
#5> Now, suddenly, it’s completely normal to have to pay $100 or $200 per month in order to do software development
And those prices are still subsidized. OpenAI, Anthropic, etc are nowhere close to generating profits.
Re: Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party?
#6https://archive.ph/854yJ Their assertion that cURL is used to fetch the web page you're reading seems...misplaced. Browsers almost certainly do not use libcurl to fetch web pages. Though I do agree that libcurl is ubiquitous.
Had to over-simplify things a bit on cURL to keep this legible to a general audience, particularly in the first few paragraphs. The idea is that at some point down the stack from your request, libcurl is almost certainly involved (as a dependency, or maybe installed on your internet router, for example), not that your browser is necessarily running libcurl code directly in making the request. But yes, it's slightly hand-wavy in service of the larger point ("this is a thing you use all of the time without realizing it")
Re: Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party?
#7https://archive.ph/854yJ Their assertion that cURL is used to fetch the web page you're reading seems...misplaced. Browsers almost certainly do not use libcurl to fetch web pages. Though I do agree that libcurl is ubiquitous.
Had to over-simplify things a bit on cURL to keep this legible to a general audience, particularly in the first few paragraphs. The idea is that at some point down the stack from your request, libcurl is almost certainly involved (as a dependency, or maybe installed on your internet router, for example), not that your browser is necessarily running libcurl code directly in making the request. But yes, it's slightly h…
Thanks for responding! It is hard to strike the right balance; I wouldn't want to be a writer :)
Re: Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party?
#8In terms of software projects themselves, consulting companies do, the same that now are pushing for AI solutions, which are the trenches I find myself in.
Now for the whole economic chaos, unfortunately the whole society will, but not the big tech folks.
Re: Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party?
#9> Now, suddenly, it’s completely normal to have to pay $100 or $200 per month in order to do software development And those prices are still subsidized. OpenAI, Anthropic, etc are nowhere close to generating profits.
Yes, but:
1) They are investing Loony Toons levels of money and using Loony Toons financing a lot of the time for DC buildout. Those are actual physical buildings that once built out, exist and don’t need to be built again.
2) They are pointedly ignoring FPGA and ASIC. With the current model quality, would it really be so bad to burn Claude irrevocably on a chip and have a non-modifiable, cheap to mass produce, order of magnitude faster Claude-in-a-chip? This is what happened to Bitcoin ultimately, there are huge performance gains we know exist lying on the table just because they don’t exist for training. And even for training, TPUs make the first steps in that direction.
Re: Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party?
#10In terms of software projects themselves, consulting companies do, the same that now are pushing for AI solutions, which are the trenches I find myself in. Now for the whole economic chaos, unfortunately the whole society will, but not the big tech folks.
IT outsourcing was arguably a sort of precursor to vibecoding, and consulting companies are arguably still eating well cleaning up the legendary mess it created.