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Vibe coding mixes up a description of the UI with a description of the system itself, resulting in a prototype based on changing assumptions rather than a clear, solid model .
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The pitfall of vibe coding is that it encourages us to express our intent in the most ambiguous way possible: by having a conversation.
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Intent Prototyping: The Allure And Danger Of Pure Vibe Coding In Enterprise UX (Part 1) — Smashing Magazine
Some of that power has to do with the dynamics of MAGAism, which demand perfect fealty to Trump, but some of it, too, is facilitated by the Democrats’ persistence that we do still live in a time of symmetrical politics: the belief, for instance, that all legislative action should be achieved through bi-partisanship, or that it’s in bad taste to... See more
The Reaction is Asymmetrical
"There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Remember this. Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that
... See more“I gotta hand it to the e/accs: “decel” is a beautiful turn of phrase. It effortlessly links “decelerationist” to the reviled “incel,” making it a perfect all-purpose slur for anyone advocating more than zero tech regulations or who’s unwilling to raze a neighborhood in service of a new chip factory.
“Doomer” has even made it into Trump admin
... See more“I was assigned, at some point, a piece about a spree of killings and land thefts carried out with impunity in the West Bank since October 7th. The piece mostly focused on a single settlement where a man who had gone to pick olives on his land one Saturday was shot by an off-duty Israeli soldier. His execution had been captured on video. The story
... See more“At the same time, the megapopular internet platform of my generation turned my peers and even our parents into screen junkies who spend their waking hours scrolling an infinite feed of slop and marketing that gets crappier and less useful by the day. What’s worrisome about Roblox is that the appeal of its universe — where slop and commerce and
... See more“In Roblox, advertisers have access to not just a gazillion eyeballs but a population for whom corporations are just another parasocial relationship. These young consumers can barely distinguish advertising from anything else. “When we ask them, ‘Have you ever seen advertising in Roblox?,’ the young people in our focus groups were like, ‘Well, no,
... See more“By September, Christine and Julia had found a company house in the Financial District, Kylin and Bhavy were establishing a house in Hayes Valley, and Pat was adding 40 new rooms to welcome a new cohort of founders. The children poised to flood a lonely world with simulacra huddled together, day and night, keeping close track of one another, a
... See moreA tech cult story, a sort of Pied Piper situation of a hacker house filled with 19-20 year olds.
Hacker house “wars”?
Detail: a kid who put a 5 min timer in socializing with house mates before continuing with his work, and older former prof with an absurd nickname, people with their ai audio and video recorders, shitting on the idea of working for
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