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@emilyyoung@tech.lgbt the idea to fact check with sources that were never meant to contain and serve facts is bad in general. Like searching Tiktok or asking your taxi driver. Sure, the info you get *might* be good, but you shouldn't rely on it.

@kaito02@mastodon.social @Tutanota@mastodon.social for the most part yes. But it's also about tech in countries that have laws that are actually enforced, and for the most part don't celebrate oligarchy.

@aral six months ago I would have agreed completely. And I still do for anything that goes into production, or is to be used by anyone but myself. But single use little apps has become my best friend... I work a lot with databases at the moment, and one of the most hellish things is to switch modes (mentally) between automatic sorting using regex and whatnot, manual tweaking to things that don't get caught by regex and others scripts, different data views to see what's going on where, etc. By vibe coding small Textual apps, using code I could never write or maintain myself, I can read from a live database, and write to a live database. The app can do any changes I want, using any keyboard shortcuts I want. So when I inspect entries in a database, and "oh crap there are a hundred mangled replicas of the same entry here, but no columns are the same!!" - instead of spending 20 minutes figuring out how a script can detect duplicate content across different columns, I can spend 3 minutes vibing a new version of my app, that is basically just Tinder for databases. Right arrow = keep, left arrow = discard, up arrow = good data. I can now sort 100 entries in less than a minute. I would never claim the app is good, I would never sell it, heck I probably wouldn't even give it to anyone because it would as you rightly say be hell (or impossible) to maintain or improve. It crashes sometimes, but it doesn't matter because it writes directly to db, so all changes are saved. There *are* things AI can be used for, that involve a clueless monkey just asking it to do things. Like write good SEO metadata for a website. Like looking through a complicated repo and giving me different sorts of maps and flowcharts depending on what I need to look for and understand. Like reading a 40mb plain text file and finding out what sort of CSV it originally was supposed to be, before someone gabled it through 15 different encodings. In that last example, I would never of course use LLMs to recreate the data structure (slow, unnecessary use of energy, lots and lots of errors, etc). But having a machine tell me the structure, visually in a TUI, so I can get the regex right the fourteenth time instead of the 140th time, dude I'm here for it.

@jaypeach53 @aral ok, then write me a textual app that does the 15 different thing my stupid little apps do, if you mean you can do it more efficiently. It took me 15 minutes to vibe the first one, and about 3 minutes to adjust the secondary iterations = ~60 minutes. If it does the job, it does the job. What you're basically saying is that no one should use a non-stick pan, because if you know how to do it properly, all pans are non stick.

@jaypeach53 @aral Lol you also think I'm an incompetent coder. I am not a coder. I suppose you're one of those people who have their heads so far up their own ego that there are no other competences than their own.

@rbreich@masto.ai And they push out AI slop to make sure they pay themselves instead of other people.

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