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Re: Software Pump and Dump

#22

Post by kshri24 »

What worries me even more is tens of thousands (or even magnitudes higher) half-baked, over-hyped, vibe-coded spaghetti "open-source projects" released publicly for clout or to attract investment.

It is like all the garbage papers you find in academia that you need to sift through until you find that one good paper. Needle in a haystack.

2026 will be the year of vibe-code driven enshittification. Github will be the casualty.

Re: Software Pump and Dump

#23

Post by Craighead »

IMTDb wrote: post #20

> The initial software Pump and Dump event could be considered when Cursor burned through millions of dollars to build a barely working browser. Naturally there was no way to finish such a monstrous heap of software into a working product and why would anybody use a vibe coded browser anyway? The "dump" on their end was to use this as marketing bait and a way to inflate their valuation. Let me introduce you to the wo…

This is a stunning false equivalency and is an irresponsible comparison.

Re: Software Pump and Dump

#24

Post by tyingq »

kshri24 wrote: post #22

What worries me even more is tens of thousands (or even magnitudes higher) half-baked, over-hyped, vibe-coded spaghetti "open-source projects" released publicly for clout or to attract investment. It is like all the garbage papers you find in academia that you need to sift through until you find that one good paper. Needle in a haystack. 2026 will be the year of vibe-code driven enshittification. Github will be the c…

It will be interesting to watch how they decide what new data to train on if most of it is low quality.

Re: Software Pump and Dump

#25

Post by a2128 »

IMTDb wrote: post #20

> The initial software Pump and Dump event could be considered when Cursor burned through millions of dollars to build a barely working browser. Naturally there was no way to finish such a monstrous heap of software into a working product and why would anybody use a vibe coded browser anyway? The "dump" on their end was to use this as marketing bait and a way to inflate their valuation. Let me introduce you to the wo…

It was only through external review that the problems with the project were discovered, and the blog post was clearly written for marketing as it hardly shared any actual details about the result other than an unexplained video they called a screenshot. Good faith research would have pointed out the limitations of their system

Re: Software Pump and Dump

#27

Post by falcor84 »

Craighead wrote: post #23
IMTDb wrote: post #20

> The initial software Pump and Dump event could be considered when Cursor burned through millions of dollars to build a barely working browser. Naturally there was no way to finish such a monstrous heap of software into a working product and why would anybody use a vibe coded browser anyway? The "dump" on their end was to use this as marketing bait and a way to inflate their valuation. Let me introduce you to the wo…

This is a stunning false equivalency and is an irresponsible comparison.

If you want to contribute something to the discussion, do that, rather than just saying that you don't like the parent's argument, that's what the down button is for.

Re: Software Pump and Dump

#28

Post by quantummagic »

Craighead wrote: post #23
IMTDb wrote: post #20

> The initial software Pump and Dump event could be considered when Cursor burned through millions of dollars to build a barely working browser. Naturally there was no way to finish such a monstrous heap of software into a working product and why would anybody use a vibe coded browser anyway? The "dump" on their end was to use this as marketing bait and a way to inflate their valuation. Let me introduce you to the wo…

This is a stunning false equivalency and is an irresponsible comparison.

You've made an emotional declaration, without an argument to justify it. For instance, it would be helpful to understand why you think it's a false equivalency, and in what way it is irresponsible.

Re: Software Pump and Dump

#29

Post by lifetimerubyist »

IMTDb wrote: post #20

> The initial software Pump and Dump event could be considered when Cursor burned through millions of dollars to build a barely working browser. Naturally there was no way to finish such a monstrous heap of software into a working product and why would anybody use a vibe coded browser anyway? The "dump" on their end was to use this as marketing bait and a way to inflate their valuation. Let me introduce you to the wo…

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Re: Software Pump and Dump

#30

Post by postalcoder »

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