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Welcome to the Wasteland: A Thousand Gas Towns

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Re: Welcome to the Wasteland: A Thousand Gas Towns

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Post by npilk »

With LLM-based tools that inherently rely so much on the semantics of language, I wonder if there will be differences in code generated for the "wanted board" in the "Wasteland", compared to the "task list" in the "public square" or the "wish list" in the "Utopia".

Re: Welcome to the Wasteland: A Thousand Gas Towns

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Post by avaer »

hardwaregeek wrote: post #6

I really want to host a vibe coding competition and see what can actually be made with these systems. Like if we’re doing insane token spends, it better be in service of creating amazing stuff. Can we make an entirely new programming language? Can we make an OS?

This sounds like a great idea, but I think two questions need to be asked for this to make sense:

  1) Who is organizing/arbitrating?
  2) Who is paying for the tokens? Is there some sort of funding or prize?
I wish we could get to UBI so we don't have to ask those questions.

Re: Welcome to the Wasteland: A Thousand Gas Towns

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Post by Etheryte »

avaer wrote: post #36
hardwaregeek wrote: post #6

I really want to host a vibe coding competition and see what can actually be made with these systems. Like if we’re doing insane token spends, it better be in service of creating amazing stuff. Can we make an entirely new programming language? Can we make an OS?

This sounds like a great idea, but I think two questions need to be asked for this to make sense: 1) Who is organizing/arbitrating? 2) Who is paying for the tokens? Is there some sort of funding or prize? I wish we could get to UBI so we don't have to ask those questions.

In all honesty, if you scoped this well, one of the big players in the LLM space could definitely host a big marketing event on this spin. Get together a bunch of well known industry folks, have them vibe code a working in a given time constraint, presentations and prizes, lots of marketing.

Re: Welcome to the Wasteland: A Thousand Gas Towns

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Post by ramesh31 »

hardwaregeek wrote: post #6

I really want to host a vibe coding competition and see what can actually be made with these systems. Like if we’re doing insane token spends, it better be in service of creating amazing stuff. Can we make an entirely new programming language? Can we make an OS?

>Can we make an entirely new programming language?

This is trivial in a few hours with Claude Code

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