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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
in which karpathy goes āeh, fuckitā:
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Thereās a new kind of coding I call āvibe codingā, where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. Itās possible because the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good. Also I just talk to Composer with SuperWhisper so I barely even touch the keyboard. I ask for the dumbest things like ādecrease the padding on the sidebar by halfā because Iām too lazy to find it. I āAccept Allā always, I donāt read the diffs anymore. When I get error messages I just copy paste them in with no comment, usually that fixes it. The code grows beyond my usual comprehension, Iād have to really read through it for a while. Sometimes the LLMs canāt fix a bug so I just work around it or ask for random changes until it goes away. Itās not too bad for throwaway weekend projects, but still quite amusing. Iām building a project or webapp, but itās not really coding - I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy paste stuff, and it mostly works.
skipping past the implicit assumption of āwell, just have a bunch of money to be able to keep throwing the autoplag at the wall until something sticksā, the admissions of not giving a single fuck about anything, and the straight and plain āwell, it often just doesnāt work like we keep promising it doesā, imagine being this fucking incurious and void of joy
Iām left wondering if this bastard is running through the stages of grief (at being thrown out), because this sure as fuck reads like despair to me
this is so much slower (in both keystrokes and raw time, not to mention needing to re-prompt) and much more expensive than just going into the fucking CSS and pressing the 3 buttons needed to change the padding for that selector, and the only reason why this would ever be hard is because theyāre knee deep in LLM generated slop and they canāt find fucking anything in there. what a fucking infuriating way to interact with a machine.
come on donāt you like waiting 1s+ for every single action you ever want to take? itās the hot new thing
React has entered the chat (donāt try talking to it yet though, it has to āasynchronouslyā load every individual UI element in the jankiest way possible)
This reinforces my judgment that the ultimate customers for code-completion models are people who donāt actually want to be writing code in the first place.
So after billions of investment, and gigawatt-hours of energy, itās now ānot too bad for throwaway weekend projectsā. Wow, great. Letās fire all the programmers already!
Apart from whatever the fuck that process is, it is not engineering.
And to think that people hated on Visual Basic onceā¦ in comparison to this stuff, it was the most solid of solid foundations.
thatād be easily terawatt-hours i think. just muskās server farmās generators are 100MW, and draw who knows how much from grid, and if it runs for a year and two months at that power thatās 1TWh. and thereās google, ms, amazon, whatever chinese are cooking,
on the level of a ābuild your own websiteā site. They are the wysiwyg users now.