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Asking a software developer why they didn't just vibe-code their project is like asking a LEGO enthusiast why they didn't just buy the finished Millennium Falcon.
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06I build open-source software and make little gadgets.
From a time when email was cool. Hard to distinguish from a good programmer.
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Aged like 5 year old milk:
"You can't become the I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'M DOING dog as a professional identity. Don't embrace being a copy-pasta programmer whose chief skill is looking up shit on the internet."
-- DHH, 2021
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12 months ago, you saw something and wondered if it was AI. Now you see something and just assume it's fake.
Cool timeline, apparently we made reality the uncanny valley.
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Yeah ok, Rust looks ugly, but have you seen a Perl one-liner after someone's been awake for 36 hours?
"This software has such a retro vibe."
"Pixel art?"
"No, it isn't laggy and just works."
I swear I've seen developers with 30 years of experience go from "I can debug a kernel panic blindfolded" to "oh wait, let me ask the AI how to write a for loop" in about 12 months.
It's amazing AI companies can legally bill by usage.
"How much will this cost?"
"No idea."
"What will I get?"
"No idea."
"Can you estimate either?"
"Absolutely not!"
We're one jackpot animation away from calling it a slot machine.
Tech debt is like a gym membership:
You ignore it for years, then one day you try to fix it and realize you're too out of shape to even start.
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We don't have a skills gap. We have a "why would I do that for this salary" gap.
It's only called "Agile" if it comes from the Agile region of France. Otherwise it's just sparkling chaos with a standup meeting.
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The natural evolution of vibe-coding? Frankenware.
You stitch together random pieces of code, skip the architecture, ignore the warnings and forgotten dependencies, apply a little electricity... and then act surprised when it starts screaming.
How to stop time: kiss.
How to travel in time: read.
How to escape time: music.
How to feel time: write.
How to release time: breathe.
-- Matt Haig
A random link in an email? Absolutely not!
An AI agent with shell access, auto-updating extensions, dozens of community packages, and write access to production?
"Yeah, that's just my dev setup, bro."
It's getting really hard to get excited about new open source projects.
First there's the endless flood of announcements. Then comes the real disappointment when you open the repo.
The announcement is polished.
The demo is slick.
The codebase looks like three LLMs got into a knife fight.
Old Reddit now requires a login "for security reasons".
That is such an obvious lie that I almost respect the confidence 🙄
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Relax. This is one of the coldest summers you'll experience for the rest of your life.
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JavaScript has this weird psychological effect on me, where I stop trying to write beautiful code.
Rust: "Let's make this elegant."
Go: "Let's keep this simple."
JavaScript: "Let's just survive somehow."
Every technological breakthrough of the last 30 years eventually reached its final form:
More targeted ads.
The actual question nobody seems to be asking:
Can we create a human & machine readable description of what software is supposed to mean, independently of the implementation that realizes it?
Because if generated code is the future, code stops being the source of truth. A programming language describes the implementation, but it isn't the specification.
The spec needs to become the program and we'll need languages built around that idea.
Programming languages are all like different buildings:
- C++ is an abandoned factory that's somehow still in production.
- Go is an operating room.
- Rust is a nuclear power plant control room.
- Python is a university campus.
- Java is corporate headquarters.
- JavaScript is a bouncy castle. On fire.
Unicode would be considered a terrible standard if it wasn't almost entirely dedicated to cleaning up everyone else's mess.
The silver lining of the Frankenware era is that Linux process sandboxing is finally getting the attention it deserves.
Turns out the fastest way to convince people they need proper isolation is to let an LLM enthusiastically explore every possible way to rm -rf your home directory.
We took a probabilistic autocomplete engine, slapped a REST API on it, invented 14 incompatible ways to call tools, and built a memory layer held together by duct tape, prayers, and malformed JSON.
The result? A modern cathedral of human ingenuity.
Also, a $300B valuation. Please don't look too closely at the load-bearing JSON.
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Everything is open source if you know reverse engineering.
People worry AI will replace programmers.
Lol. Have you seen the code it trains on? Half the internet is one regex away from a national emergency.
"Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface."
-- Doug McIlroy, 1964
My phone overheating and shutting itself off in the 2026 summer heat is actually genius. The climate crisis finally has a user interface.
"Your device is too hot. Please cool down."
Same, Pixel. Same.
Coding agents could be incredible if they respected the workflow of people who actually write software.
"Look! I changed 83 files in 7 minutes!"
Yes. That's the problem.
Holding onto anger is like swallowing poison and expecting someone else to die.
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The cookie banner is what happens when lawyers, advertisers, browser vendors, and regulators all solve the same problem independently.
And somehow I'm the one doing all the work now, clicking ❌ for the 47th time today.
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It's day 3 of the great internet outage of 2026.
I found myself opening the fridge repeatedly, but there were no new notifications.
The cheese has become strangely compelling. I might subscribe to its newsletter.
Codeberg: "No AI-generated code."
Finally, a place for all the bugs I made the old-fashioned way: by hand, with love, and no idea what I'm doing!
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The funniest thing about that post is that nobody even questioned the 2 GB browser tab.
Somewhere along the way we all just accepted that as perfectly normal.
Physical media survived scratched CDs, red rings, and Blu-ray lasers, but It might not survive Sony's corporate strategy.
Looks like the PS5 will be my last ever PlayStation. Call me old-fashioned, but I like owning the games I buy.
We keep saying we're "adding AI to our app".
I fear that'll age about as well as "adding internet support".
We still think in terms of applications because that's the paradigm we grew up with. But perhaps an app was always just a temporary interface between human intent and, uhm, computation?
In suspect in the future, apps become capabilities. The AI becomes the interface layer: dynamically rendering a UI, starting a voice chat, or silently getting things done.
The app was never the product.
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The new tech industry lifecycle:
Embrace - We love open standards!
Extend - We added a few tiny improvements nobody asked for.
Extinguish - Oops, your thing is incompatible now.
Enshitify - Aaaanyway, here's a subscription tier for the features you used to have!
Heads up #ArchLinux users!
The "Atomic Arch" supply chain attack (June 9-12) compromised 400-1,500+ AUR packages with an infostealer & eBPF rootkit targeting credentials, browser data, and CI/CD secrets.
Attackers quietly adopted orphaned AUR packages and slipped in malicious PKGBUILDs. The community is actively cleaning up, but now's the time to act.
See also: https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/aur-general@lists.archlinux.org/thread/FGXPCB3ZVCJIV7FX323SBAX2JHYB7ZS4/
Paying 19 cents per text message was actually peak society. Every message was a meticulously edited, 160-character masterpiece where you weighed the financial cost of a vowel.
cul8r!
I agree, zoo enclosures can be cruel, but have you seen the rental market lately?
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Check out GiveWell. Also, The Internet Archive, The Humane League, EFF, SFC.
Word-wrap is a myth invented by Big Typography.
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Got it. We replaced "Next -> Next -> Finish" with "Add to Cart" for another RAM kit.
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This is coming from someone who's currently working in C++ and has been for the better part of the last three decades.
I know regret when I feel it 😂
Besides that, it's really just a joke. C++ has many issues, but so does every other programming language I've ever used.
I know it's just a joke, but since I checked before I wrote my post and tried to find the author of the quote: it was not Buddha :-)