Part of me hates having scruples ...

I need to find a third party service that can make Facebook posts on a burner account so I don't have to login to lick the boot personally but I also don't miss out on the 3 points the trivia host gives out weekly for responding to their thirsty online post (missed out on them 6 weeks in a row now)

@mattmaison my guess(?) is it's at least somewhat due to Google ruining "good" search over the last several years

It's now so downright miserable and they've added so much friction to get basic information that most people are willing to now accept "usually fact adjacent" information simply to keep from having to waste 20x time to dig through pages of ads and even less useful AI generated web static content 🤷

When friends brag about using ChatGPT and other AI LLMs to find "quick answers" I gently remind them it's still ass and unreliable compared to how amazingly good Google used to be at this exact task

@madcollector exactly - it's like an earth scorching, environment killing intellisense on steroids.

I don't have many mock up uses like yesterday, but it did well for that

But my "real work" job it's on by default in Databricks more to humor myself and it's "auto fill and tab to accept* shit it guesses are wildly inaccurate when it comes down to coding anything logically; I'll accept less than 30% of what it recommends.. maybe saves me 5%.. maybe loses me 5%? Not getting any real lift there.

@madcollector

I had a couple of guys that know their shit hype it and I felt like I had to give it at least an honest attempt to respond fairly

In this very controlled test to do boring, basic low-impact and low-level, well defined tasks it sadly worked well.

I'd never do very detailed or production level coding via "vibing". And while I agree the overall humanity cost of the lemon definitely ain't nearly worth the 1.2x squeeze I realized, it appears it can make basic lemonade.

I'm not proud of myself, but I used ChatGPT to try and "vibe code" a few things today:

A repetitive reformatting of lists of elements

Mocks up of a couple responsive webpage from a screenshot with instructions

Honestly saved me at least an hour..

..I feel like I need a shower... 😑

Death, taxes, and an unending loop of Showtime squeezing every drop of juice out of their Dexter franchise are about the only things guaranteed in this world

Today's young men are coming of age listening to Joe Rogan instead of Rage Against the Machine and it shows

The only mention of crypto I want to see in my timeline from this point forward doesn't even start with the letter C and stars in the new Superman movie

The irony is not lost on me that some of the biggest tech leaders that pounded the "rigid departmental coding standards" drum for decades were the fastest to embrace the "lulz let AI just vibe code it now" mindset solely to keep the taste of corporate boot as prevalent on their tongues as possible

The best part about writing shit for yourself as a coder is you can shit all over "agreed upon best conventions" that were championed by organizations primarily to make coders interchangeable pieces and instead rely upon your 30+ years of coding experience to write shit efficiently and affordably

There is absolutely a non-zero number of LinkedIn thought leaders that would autofellaciate to their nightly wet-dream of AI causing 90% unemployment if they had the physical capability to do so

Wealthy New Yorkers will be about fleeing to Florida until the first hurricane hits and their property insurance spikes and they run to Texas..

..until the power grid shits the bed for 3 days straight and they run off to Tennessee..

..whose idea of infrastructure is just sign that says "LULZ"

During extended periods of heat, please set your home's AC to 78F/25.5C degrees or higher to avoid rolling blackouts and ensure your local crypto degen has enough energy to properly cool his server farm to continue mining at "kill an entire forest daily" capacity 24/7

The absolute dumbest people on Facebook I wouldn't trust to boil water have suddenly become experts on foreign affairs... again ...

Thank the baby jebus some people can't live forever....

If the last few days have taught me anything about Bluesky, it's that people with no profile picture are usually very, very angry and the majority of them have really poor takes

Guess who low key snuck a $1.25 Starscream Transformer toy into the Dollar Tree basket right under the wife's nose without getting caught while buying supplies to help move his adult daughter into a new home?

Debbie Harry doesn't get the historical credit she deserves.. that chick rocks my dudes...