Holy crap. If you're thinking you really want to know every possible technical detail of the submersibles owned by a redacted person who may or may not have directed 'Titanic', now's your chance!
Struggling with vibe coding? You just need to get better at prompting. Here is a six video series "course" to teach you how to write the most effective AI prompts and get the most out of vibe coding!
(Do you ever wonder what it would be like if there were some special language for giving commands to computers... a kind of prompting language so they would do *exactly* what you wanted? Maybe someone should invent that.)
prompt: variables: - variable: variable-name: prompt-text variable-value: "write a valid yaml-configuration for a CI/CD-pipeline for deploying a lambda service for verifying yaml-code" enabled: value: true
Yeah! Like a language where each statement works in a predictable way. You could even use concepts from math like "and" and "or" to speed up the process and remove ambiguity.
Maybe this is just a dream... anyways back to the vibes!
Took a course in ATDD once, which covered Cucumber. It's a concept worth revisiting, as it bridges the gap between human and machine languages, by producing specifications which can be programmatically turned to working code.
@purrperl TBH I think vibe coding is cool for getting almost what you want in random quality. And To Be equally H (TBeH 😉), often this is good enough. You use Llama for writing the code, you read up on what it actually means at Stack Overflow and the real documentation and you have your bit of code that aggregates some data in the right way or your one-trick-pony app with 1 user installed on 1 phone. Beyond that, quality control is just bound to be troublesome.
@muellerwhh 1) Use AI generated code as scaffolding. Hand polish the result, the look & feel, the usability, the human touch, the quirk, the flourish.
2) For the love of God, is QA a Lost Art? QA does not care who wrote the code (🧑 🤖 👽 ) Don't tell the QA department you fired all the programmers and replaced them with AI.
Feels like that would never take, but I guess with the properly presented proprietary APIs and IDEs, companies might be willing to toss it a couple of billion.
After reading this post, I've decided to flesh out the ideas a little. And I think I may have conceptualised the future of vibe coding!
First, the problem of inconsistencies in how AIs respond to prompts.
We need better predictability!
So let's create a standard syntax for prompts, so when you enter a given prompt in a particular way, the machine will always respond in a standard way.
We'll call these next-gen prompts "commands".
As long as you know this simple "language" of commands, the machine will always do what you want!
Now, on to the problem of needing complex prompts for complex vibe coding jobs.
Let's take away the guesswork.
Instead of trying to precisely enter one complicated long prompt, let's instead have a series of simpler commands that get executed one after the other.
A "program" of commands, if you will.
So you don't have to re-enter your program on prompts, let's invent a physical media for storing and loading these programs.
Now, the next big elephant in the AI room is resource use.
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After reading this post, I've decided to flesh out the ideas a little. And I think I may have conceptualised the future of vibe coding!
First, the problem of inconsistencies in how AIs respond to prompts.
We need better predictability!
So let's create a standard syntax for prompts, so when you enter a given prompt in a particular way, the machine will always respond in a standard way.
We'll call these next-gen prompts "commands".
As long as you know this simple "language" of commands, the machine will always do what you want!
Now, on to the problem of needing complex prompts for complex vibe coding jobs.
Let's take away the guesswork.
Instead of trying to precisely enter one complicated long prompt, let's instead have a series of simpler commands that get executed one after the other.
A "program" of commands, if you will.
So you don't have to re-enter your program on prompts, let's invent a physical media for storing and loading these programs.
Now, the next big elephant in the AI room is resource use.
Let's solve this issue so that the command interpreter "AI" software runs with very few resources. I know this is a stretch goal, but perhaps even an 8-bit microcomputer with just 64K of RAM?
And to really make this catch on, let's make this AI vibe command programming language so simple, even an 8-year-old can understand it.
A "basic" programming language, if you will.
Now I know this "Basic" programming language AI vibe coding system sounds extraordinary.
But I promise you that for just $10 billion in VC funding and total indemnity against copyright infringement, I will happily deliver a 64K 8-bit microcomputer with the BASIC programming language preinstalled!
This is the future of AI folks! Feel the singularity approaching!
Remember when we were all worried that Huawei had filled our telecoms infrastructure with listening devices and killswitches? It sure would be dangerous if a corporation beholden to a brutal autocrat became structurally essential to your country's continued operations, huh?
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In other, unrelated news, earlier this month, Trump's DoJ ordered Apple and Google to remove apps that allowed users to report ICE's roving gangs of masked thugs, who have kidnapped thousands of our neighbors and sent them to black sites:
Apple and Google capitulated. Apple also capitulated to Trump by removing apps that collect hand-verified, double-checked videos of ICE violence. Apple declared ICE's thugs to be a "protected class" that may not be disparaged in apps available to Apple's customers:
Of course, iPhones can (technically) run apps that Apple doesn't want you to run. All you have to do is "jailbreak" your phone and install an independent app store.
Tech giants Apple and Google have been quietly removing ways for citizens to document The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s activities. On this week’s On the Media, ...
Just one problem: the US Trade Rep bullied every country in the world into banning jailbreaking, meaning that if Trump (a man who never met a grievance that was too petty to pursue) orders Tim Cook (a man who never found a boot he wouldn't lick) to remove apps from your country's app store, you won't be able to get those apps from anyone else:
Now, you *could* get your government to order Apple to open up its platform to third-party app stores, but they will not comply - instead, they'll drown your country in spurious legal threats:
Of course, Google's no better. Not only do they capitulate to every demand from Trump, but they're also locking down Android so that you'll no longer be allowed to install apps unless Google approves of them (meaning that Trump now has a *de facto* veto over your Android apps):
For decades, China hawks have accused Chinese tech giants of being puppeteered by the Chinese state, vehicles for projecting Chinese state power around the world.
When it comes to US foreign policy, every accusation is a confession. Snowden showed us how the US tech giants were being used to wiretap virtually every person alive for the US government.
More than a decade later, Microsoft has been forced to admit that they will *still* allow Trump's lackeys to plunder Europeans' data, *even if that data is stored on servers in the EU*:
When Trump denounced Karim Khan, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, for indicting Netanyahu for genocide, Microsoft obliged by nuking Khan's email, documents, calendar and contacts:
But it's worse than that. The very worst-case speculative scenario for Huawei-as-Chinese-Trojan-horse is infinitely better than the non-speculative, real ways in which the US has killswitched and bugged the world's devices.
Take CALEA, a Clinton-era law that requires all network switches to be equipped with law-enforcement back-doors that allow anyone who holds the right credential to take over the switch and listen in, block, or spoof its data.
Virtually every network switch manufactured is CALEA-compliant, which is how the NSA was able to listen in on the Greek Prime Minister's phone calls to gain competitive advantage for the competign Salt Lake City Olympic bid:
Nominally, CALEA backdoors are under US control, but the reality is that *lots* of hackers exploit CALEA to attack governments and corporations, inside the US and abroad. Remember Salt Typhoon, the worst-ever hacking attack on US government agencies and large corporations? The Salt Typhoon hackers used CALEA as their entry point into those networks:
Take John Deere, the ag-tech monopolist that supplies the majority of the world's tractors. By design, those tractors do not allow the farmers who own them to alter their software. That's so John Deere can force farmers to use Deere's own technicians for repairs, and so that Deere can extract soil data from farmers' tractors to sell into the global futures market.
A tractor is a networked computer in a fancy, expensive case filled with whirling blades, and at any time, Deere can reach into any tractor and permanently immobilize it. Remember when Russian looters stole those Ukrainian tractors and took them to Chechnya, only to have Deere remotely brick their loot, turning the tractors into multi-ton paperweights?
Many of us cheered the high-tech comeuppance, but when you consider that Trump could order Deere to do this to *all* tractors, on his whim, this gets a lot more sinister:
Any government thinking about the future of geopolitics in an era of Trump's mad king fascism should be thinking about how to flash those tractors - and phones, and games consoles, and medical implants, and ventilators - with free and open software that is under its owner's control.
The problem is that every country in the world has signed up to America's ban on jailbreaking.
In the EU, it's Article 6 of the Copyright Directive. In Mexico, it's the IP chapter of the USMCA. If Central America, it's via CAFTA. In Australia, it's the US-Australia Free Trade Agreement.
In Canada, it's 2012's Bill C-11, which bans Canadian farmers from fixing their own tractors, Canadian drivers from taking their cars to a mechanic of their choosing, and Canadian iPhone and games console owners from choosing to buy their software from a Canadian store:
These anti-jailbreaking laws were designed as a tool of economic extraction, a way to protect American tech companies' sky-high fees and rampant privacy invasions by making it illegal, everywhere, for anyone to alter how these devices work without the manufacturer's permission.
But today, these laws have created clusters of deep-seated infrastructural vulnerabilities that reach into all our digital devices and services, including the digital devices that harvest our crops, supply oxygen to our lungs, or tell us when Trump's masked shock-troops are hunting people in our vicinity.
It's well past time for a post-American internet. Every device and every service should be designed so that the people who use them have the final say over how they work.
Manufacturers' back doors and digital locks that prevent us from updating our devices with software of our choosing were never a good idea. Today, they're a catastrophe.
The world signed up to these laws because the US threatened them with tariffs if they didn't do as they were told. Well, happy Liberation Day, everyone. The US told the world to pass America's tech laws or face American tariffs.
When someone threatens to burn down your house unless you do as you're told, *and then they burn your house down anyway*, you don't have to keep doing what they told you.
When Putin invaded Ukraine, he inadvertently pushed the EU to accelerate its solarization efforts, to escape their reliance on Russian gas, and now Europe is a decade ahead of schedule in meeting its zero-emissions goals:
Today, another mad dictator is threatening the world's infrastructure. For the rest of the world to escape dictators' demands, they will have to accelerate their independence from American tech - not just Russian gas. A post-American internet starts with abandoning the laws that give US companies - and therefore Trump - a veto over how your technology works.
As scary as all that is, and it's very scary, thoughts on how existing geopolitical power structures could be disrupted by widespread availability of energy that's an order of magnitude cheaper than today?
(Acknowledging the real possibility that the existing power structures take action to either kill this baby in the crib or coopt it and restrict deployment.)
So... I like to audit the devices on my network for unexpected Ethernet packets. I tried searching for CALEA exploits and how they work and didn't see how to protect myself. Is it a stream of bytes and port knocking that activates it?
I do remember back in the late 1990's a particular stream of bytes through my ISP's network would shut down their T3 line for the entire state, which required a manual reboot to restore service. And it was reproducible. With a UseNet News binary of a mp3... Ooops... That CALEA?
You WILL (for now...) be able to sideload unaproved apps by the ADB debug (USB) bridge, but that requires having a real computer.
Question then becomes this: if an Android ICEblock app requires ADB sideloading what percentage of intended users would be up to teaching themselves to use ADB from the command line?
Remember, making every computer boot to a command prompt like Windows 3.1 did, most people would treat that as an outage.
Absent blocking entire websites where such apps would reside, there's no way I'm aware of for an OS to prevent using an "app" residing on a web server.
If we get to the point where the government is forcing blocking of websites, we've got far bigger problems.
@joeinwynnewood Texass now wants to block not only non-age verifying porn sites but VPNs as well. They probably cannot make that work for technical reasons: the money for a Great Firewall of Texas won't be available
No National Cloud should be hosted outside that nation.
No national Cloud should be designed or maintained by companies with ties to foreign governments-that way lies espionage and kill-switch-fuelled blackmail.
nice writeup about the dangers of politicians getting control of information technology. I read this book some years ago, and Trump is using the levers like AT&T and others have been used before. amazon.com/Master-Switch-Rise-…
MTG recently started making statements that don't sound completely insane. Possible explanations: 1) A handler has recently shoved their hand up her ass. 2) A new handler has their hand up her ass. 3) She recently escaped her handler.
Some notes for the "UX" people out there designing user interfaces:
1) Don't mix menu options and gestures in the same workflow. 2) Don't mix menu options and gestures in the same workflow. 3) Don't mix menu options and gestures in the same workflow. 4) For pity's fucking sake, don't mix menu options and gestures in the same workflow!
When everyone uses a developers library a developer thinks 'Great they all love my work!'. When someone does something similar in UI/UX the UI/UX design expert screams 'plagiarism, how dare they!'
UI/UX design experts are different breed. I believe the only one that really give a sh@t about them are other UI/UX designers. They are really the outcasts of the development community. By their own choice.
Even if you are sure you don't need extra security, you need extra security. Change messengers! The people keeping you "secure" are farming you like pigs, and the slaughter is a-comin'!
In 2023, Signal was the first mainstream messenger to enable post-quantum cryptography. We’re still ahead of the (elliptical) curve, implementing a new hybrid PQ ratchet ensuring Forward Secrecy & Post-Compromise Security even in a post-quantum world. signal.org/blog/spqr/
We are excited to announce a significant advancement in the security of the Signal Protocol: the introduction of the Sparse Post Quantum Ratchet (SPQR).
In case you were wondering if ICE had transitioned to full-on Gestapo, they are now literally using "Papers please!" as an excuse for fucking up your whole day and squeezing a few more dollars out of you!
In 2023, Signal was the first mainstream messenger to enable post-quantum cryptography. We’re still ahead of the (elliptical) curve, implementing a new hybrid PQ ratchet ensuring Forward Secrecy & Post-Compromise Security even in a post-quantum world. signal.org/blog/spqr/
We are excited to announce a significant advancement in the security of the Signal Protocol: the introduction of the Sparse Post Quantum Ratchet (SPQR).
@benroyce @erikcats For the record, we do not have quantum computers yet, nor do we know when or even if we'll have them for any outside-the-lab purposes.
Whether you saw a quantum computer featured in a tech news blog post, or that Black Mirror episode "Joan is Awful", the chandelier-like look may have inspire...
Breaking the Enigma wasn't really smooth sailing. It had its ups and downs during the most critical years, but those can't be summarized in 100 words. Also the Germans helped by overestimating the strength of the Enigma and thus neglecting some measures that would have been in their interest.
The Venona project is also instructive. It achieved a lot and yet decrypted a small part of all intercepted messages.
@vnikolov @jwcph @erikcats the great weakness of all fascists is their arrogance and hubris. when they surround themselves with yes men and push lies over truth, they fall for their own bullshit about "superiority"
Also, I would even avoid saying that, if actually made feasible, quantum computers will make hard mathematical problems "easy"; rather, I would say that they would solve them quickly, and much more so than currently imaginable with classic computer architecture. The difference in terminology has to do with how one actually counts the operations that need to be performed in order to solve the problem. Additionally, there is the problem of errors, but let's not get to technical (yet).
@benroyce @jwcph @erikcats well, one of the problems is making sure the errors stay within certain limits of acceptability (stay "bounded", as we say). There are also other issues, such as hardware scalability, but these will become less important as technology progresses. Just think how much computers have advanced in the last 40 years!
There's also the fact that every time so far that some company has claimed "quantum supremacy" and boasted of having "solved" a certain precisely-chosen problem multiple orders of magnitude faster than possible with a classical computer, a different set of researchers have looked at that problem, reframed it, and come up with a way to solve it in comparable time using a classical computer.
For most purposes, the best you can realistically hope to do is make it enough trouble to discourage the casual thief, because the next target along is easier.
As mentioned elsewhere, we don't have quantum computing but one big issue is that some people are banking on it existing in the future and are hoovering up encrypted data that they will later be able to crack if they are correct so switching to post-quantum cryptography early protects against that possibility.
@benroyce @erikcats Michael Chrichton wrote about this (Prey? maybe). One of the (fictional) points he made was that brute force had been pushed to high levels using quantum computing. But the Gov't continued to push the idea that they couldn't decode high level encryption so that 'bad players' would continue to use encryption that had been compromised.
@mkj @benroyce @erikcats well, one other problem is that of the immense number of continuous parameters needed to describe the state of an actual quantum computer. And then along come papers such as this one journals.aps.org/prresearch/ab…
This is really cool! And the way I see it, it has the potential to address the problem above by providing a general way to discretize quantum systems. So I guess we'll have to wait and see how things work out.
Personally, I'm quite sceptical about the whole quantum hype, but I'm keeping an open mind.
@benroyce @zakalwe @hotelzululima @jwcph @erikcats true story: a while ago, I briefly worked on a tetrazole compound. The goal was to better understand a certain molecular mechanism in plants. The compound was synthesised by a student, who is one of the best chemists I've met (think Walter White sans drugs). He did it during a weekend because, in his own words, "if something messed up, it would have blown up the university, and at least it would have been empty."
My co-author on one of my books once attended a weekend party at which they were, among other things, using liquid nitrogen to make ice cream.
After a while, the liquid nitrogen ran out.
Sometime AFTER that point, one of the attendees showed up with a freshly-made batch of ice cream, inviting people to try it. Those who KNEW the nitrogen had run out immediately called a stop and said, "Wait, wait, what exactly did you use to make this?"
@benroyce @rhempel @mkj @erikcats 4K computers were the mid/late 70s. For micro computers at least, like the Altair 8800/Commodore PET. For minicomputers that's 60s level, and for mainframes 50s.
Bitcoin takes a finite quantum of entropy defined by difficulty scaling the nonce space and through proof-of-work transforms it into conserved thermodynamic memory: satoshis, a quantum of structure and value. The result is a computed quantum of time: the block.
It is the most literal definition of “quantum” and of “computing.” Energy beneath the physical mirage reduces to discrete quanta at the scale of Planck time. Bitcoin instantiates that process at human scale.
A quantum without absolute scarcity is unintelligible. Physics drifts when it defines quanta without bounds. Measurement is not a convention, it must be tied to a scarce denominator. No such scarce denominator existed before Bitcoin, thus no true measurement existed before Bitcoin.
“A measure of any kind, of any thing, is not a thing at all, nor is a measure found in nature. A measure is an agreed-upon standard of measure.” Except Bitcoin’s measurement is not an agreement. It is a thing. It is conserved energy, crystallized into memory. It’s not just an
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Bitcoin takes a finite quantum of entropy defined by difficulty scaling the nonce space and through proof-of-work transforms it into conserved thermodynamic memory: satoshis, a quantum of structure and value. The result is a computed quantum of time: the block.
It is the most literal definition of “quantum” and of “computing.” Energy beneath the physical mirage reduces to discrete quanta at the scale of Planck time. Bitcoin instantiates that process at human scale.
A quantum without absolute scarcity is unintelligible. Physics drifts when it defines quanta without bounds. Measurement is not a convention, it must be tied to a scarce denominator. No such scarce denominator existed before Bitcoin, thus no true measurement existed before Bitcoin.
“A measure of any kind, of any thing, is not a thing at all, nor is a measure found in nature. A measure is an agreed-upon standard of measure.” Except Bitcoin’s measurement is not an agreement. It is a thing. It is conserved energy, crystallized into memory. It’s not just an “agreement”, because truth does not care about your opinion.
Bitcoin is the only system to prove that a quantum of entropy can resolve into a conserved quantum of structure: auditable, irreversible, and true.
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I-told-you-sos are considered to be preening, so how do you make people remember what you said and see the proof so they change their minds without doing it? This was all predictable, and predicted....
We’ve been on a death march toward the complete disintegration of every principle that ostensibly animates our democratic republic for decades. Both sides have helped keep us on the path.
Lol, I actually switched to GNU/Linux when Windows was just a MS/DOS application. Windows 3.11 had just released when I began using tutorials on usenet to build my own GNU/Linux installation. X Server was another story. It took literally weeks to download all the code successfully and For a very small while I used a bare bones X Server with no DE or WM. Boot magazine (now Wired) distributed a stripped down copy of Debian on their complimentary CD on one Issue and I finally got to try out Gnome and KDE which were both in their infancy. At first KDE had my attention, then as both matured, as I pretend I did as well, I learned to love the elegancy of simplicity and now I favor Gnome.
So when Israel is finished killing all the AmalekitePalestinian men, women, and children, is the plan to keep going and kill all the camels and donkeys?
Can't sell electric motorcycles to "real" bikers? Put a whole-ass extra non-working IC motor on the electric motor's output so e-bikers can throw away 50% of their charge on making everyone think they're just as selfish and obnoxious as regular bikers!
Yamaha is developing a special unit for electric motorcycles that is designed to generate the typical noises and vibrations of combustion engines. The new patent aims to transfer the classic riding experience to electric vehicles.
In Greek mythology, the priestess Cassandra was cursed by Apollo to see completely accurate visions of the future, but never to be believed by anyone she revealed them to.
My desperately-flailing-for-relevance corporate masters have decided that we need to be using an entirely new "GenAI" platform. This morning, in a meeting, I accidentally let slip what I was calling it in my head: "HAL 2.OhGod"
The reception was *shockingly* warm...
Did I mention I've got a new job-title again? Or that they never bothered to inform me?
So... I guess we won't be sending our warriors to places because someone stands to make money any more? You know, so you won't be sending them to die for the selfish benefit of a corrupt dictatorial government?
We officially live in a dictatorship. This illegal, unconstitutional bullshit will let them use anything you've *ever* said that could be construed as being a negative statement on Christianity, our government, or capitalism is now their tool to watchlist you and use it to punitively exclude you from air/train/bus travel, banking, credit, government benefits, education, etc...
Just in case you find yourself naming a database or other system, don't call it "QS" if there will be anyone from the deep south trying to pronounce it. Unless, that is, you want to spend a meeting listening to people snort and mute themselves after every reference to the "Cute-ass" database....
With our representatives calling themselves our leaders and the revolving door they have with Big Everything(Trillion and Billion dollar incorporations) between being a politician or a lobbyist it really does not matter what flavor you are. They are all politicians, hence they are all less than desirable human beings. Though I will continue to treat them as human beings even though they refuse to behave like one. I do not due this because I feel they have earned it or are entitled to it. I do it because I will not compromise my own ethics due to their lack of any.
This satirical blog post really illustrates the problem with a lot of technical writing. Amazing technical writing is so good and then everything else reads like this
“Hello! I am a developer. Here is my relevant experience: I code in Hoobijag and sometimes jabbernocks and of course ABCDE++++ (but never ABCDE+/^+ are you kidding? ha!) and I like working with Shoobababoo and occasionally kleptomitrons.
I used to be a technical author (I have a CS degree and I'm now a full-time novelist) and this EXACTLY reflects the state of technical writing today, i.e., it's mostly written grudgingly by people who flunked English in high school and would prefer to monologue at a webcam for YouTube.
(Writing a tutorial for on-boarding new users is deathly difficult: you can't reliably reconstruct their state of naivety in your own head if you've been using the product for >1 year.)
@cstross we had a semi retired colleague with a long history in tech before it was tech. He'd written manuals for nuclear devices, that sort of thing. So we'd hand him the draft and the laptop and say "Nick, setup the robot will you?". Always eye-opening.
@grumpydad I just want a Linux distro (or UNIX-oid OS—looking at you, macOS!) that refuses to use any software that doesn't have a properly formatted well-written man(1) page to Brian Kernighan or Dennis Ritchie's standards.
@cstross @dahukanna For my GitHub repos I ask Claude to write a human testing guide that shows step by step how to run it, including the expected output. It usually finds a few bugs and things in wrong directories.
@MitchW @skinnylatte Oh, I ran into Robert Sheckley in 1996 when I was visiting a tech startup in London. He was working as an author there. (Admittedly it was TDV, which was owned by one Douglas Adams ...)
We literally saw/heard him say, "We can do this the easy way or the hard way," ("Nice station you have there. It would be a shame if something was to ... happen to it...") and that Disney must "take action" on Kimmel "or there's going to be additional work for the FCC ahead."
FCC chairman unconvincingly claims he never threatened ABC station licenses Brendan Carr would like you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
Given what I *really* do all day as an engineer, an uninformed observer could be forgiven for concluding that I have a degree in Numbering and Naming Things...
"Investigators have reason to believe that the majority of funds came from criminal sources."
Oh, really? what's the reason?
"This type of platform, which doesn’t require users to identify themselves to make an account, hides the source of funds. This is a common tactic used by criminal organizations"
So your reason to believe the funds are illegal is that private citizens don't want you to know their business?
"The transaction data obtained from the platform will be analyzed and charges may follow. The investigation is ongoing."
So you had *nothing*, and decided to go on a fishing expedition? Got it. I guess cops everywhere are fascist assholes, not just here in the US.
So I've been posting about these new cars and their "secure" door handles, and how they're killing people. Everyone has pooh-poohed me. They *had* to save the world by buying Teslas. Well:
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Oh I love this game! It's like musical chairs, right?
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Yes, and the people not getting the chair are probably pension funds, who are currently starting to invest in "AI startups".
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Yeah! Like a language where each statement works in a predictable way. You could even use concepts from math like "and" and "or" to speed up the process and remove ambiguity.
Maybe this is just a dream... anyways back to the vibes!
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Took a course in ATDD once, which covered Cucumber.
It's a concept worth revisiting, as it bridges the gap between human and machine languages, by producing specifications which can be programmatically turned to working code.
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Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Wolfgang Müller (DE:er/EN:he)
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1) Use AI generated code as scaffolding. Hand polish the result, the look & feel, the usability, the human touch, the quirk, the flourish.
2) For the love of God, is QA a Lost Art? QA does not care who wrote the code (🧑 🤖 👽 ) Don't tell the QA department you fired all the programmers and replaced them with AI.
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Random Geek
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in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •> Struggling with vibe coding?
Don't
^_^J
AJ Sadauskas
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •After reading this post, I've decided to flesh out the ideas a little. And I think I may have conceptualised the future of vibe coding!
First, the problem of inconsistencies in how AIs respond to prompts.
We need better predictability!
So let's create a standard syntax for prompts, so when you enter a given prompt in a particular way, the machine will always respond in a standard way.
We'll call these next-gen prompts "commands".
As long as you know this simple "language" of commands, the machine will always do what you want!
Now, on to the problem of needing complex prompts for complex vibe coding jobs.
Let's take away the guesswork.
Instead of trying to precisely enter one complicated long prompt, let's instead have a series of simpler commands that get executed one after the other.
A "program" of commands, if you will.
So you don't have to re-enter your program on prompts, let's invent a physical media for storing and loading these programs.
Now, the next big elephant in the AI room is resource use.
Let's s
... show moreAfter reading this post, I've decided to flesh out the ideas a little. And I think I may have conceptualised the future of vibe coding!
First, the problem of inconsistencies in how AIs respond to prompts.
We need better predictability!
So let's create a standard syntax for prompts, so when you enter a given prompt in a particular way, the machine will always respond in a standard way.
We'll call these next-gen prompts "commands".
As long as you know this simple "language" of commands, the machine will always do what you want!
Now, on to the problem of needing complex prompts for complex vibe coding jobs.
Let's take away the guesswork.
Instead of trying to precisely enter one complicated long prompt, let's instead have a series of simpler commands that get executed one after the other.
A "program" of commands, if you will.
So you don't have to re-enter your program on prompts, let's invent a physical media for storing and loading these programs.
Now, the next big elephant in the AI room is resource use.
Let's solve this issue so that the command interpreter "AI" software runs with very few resources. I know this is a stretch goal, but perhaps even an 8-bit microcomputer with just 64K of RAM?
And to really make this catch on, let's make this AI vibe command programming language so simple, even an 8-year-old can understand it.
A "basic" programming language, if you will.
Now I know this "Basic" programming language AI vibe coding system sounds extraordinary.
But I promise you that for just $10 billion in VC funding and total indemnity against copyright infringement, I will happily deliver a 64K 8-bit microcomputer with the BASIC programming language preinstalled!
This is the future of AI folks! Feel the singularity approaching!
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David August ❌👑
in reply to AJ Sadauskas • • •@aj this is so crazy. It just might work.
Can we call this AI creation an Intelligence Done Easily system, like an IDE?
HighlandLawyer
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