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New comment by nbaugh1 in "Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software"

nbaugh1 — Sun, 31 May 2026 11:52:42 +0000

This doesn’t even 100% mean that the code was generated using Claude, only really means the commit message was.

Write some code and then ask Claude to diff your changes and write a commit message. Now the internet hates you

New comment by nbaugh1 in "Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software"

nbaugh1 — Sun, 31 May 2026 11:42:15 +0000

I think a lot of people have a sort of “slot machine” experience with it at some point. You just start firing off prompts on some new project, wait a few seconds, see what prize you got. Then you start doing that over and over just letting the LLM code and code and not even review what it’s doing. It really is like getting hooked on gambling. You’re getting a thrill from anticipation, not the actual results.

This is what I personally consider “vibe coding”, not simply using LLMs or agents or whatever in your workflow

New comment by nbaugh1 in "Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software"

nbaugh1 — Sun, 31 May 2026 11:28:54 +0000

It really is an odd feeling to be in between the 2 extremes

New comment by nbaugh1 in "Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen"

nbaugh1 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:33:20 +0000

Like I just mentioned in another comment, they're also a way to get you back to work ASAP. Just about everyone NOT working a comfy white collar office job needs to be working in order to make money. Time off is less income, people can't afford that so they do what they need to do to get back to work.

Sprained ankle? Injured back? Headache? Broken bone? All things that people work through everyday with some NSAIDs because calling out sick means losing income

New comment by nbaugh1 in "Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen"

nbaugh1 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:29:10 +0000

Well for one thing, in America, you gotta get back to work.

Work a manual labor job or one where you're on your feet all day and sprained your ankle? Would you rather miss a week of pay (or worse lose your job) or take some pain killers and work through it?

New comment by nbaugh1 in "X blames users for Grok-generated CSAM; no fixes announced"

nbaugh1 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 20:30:36 +0000

The new engagement bait technique is "vague posting" so that people need to click into the comments and ask for specifics, its terrible

New comment by nbaugh1 in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

nbaugh1 — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 15:32:04 +0000

So is the internet, computers even

New comment by nbaugh1 in "Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work"

nbaugh1 — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 15:26:15 +0000

We don't, that's why we do review it. We also do things like communicate with teammates, have expectations of not wasting other people's time, and try to uphold standards and meet SLAs. Maybe people should worry about why their teams are so dysfunctional rather than how the code was produced

New comment by nbaugh1 in "Building an AI agent inside a 7-year-old Rails monolith"

nbaugh1 — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 15:17:10 +0000

And yet, you clicked the link

New comment by nbaugh1 in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

nbaugh1 — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 14:49:55 +0000

I think the response would be something about the value of enjoying art and "supporting the film industry" when streaming vs what that person sees as a totally worthless, if not degrading, activity. I'm more pro-AI than anti-AI, but I keep my opinions to myself IRL currently. The economics of the situation have really tainted being interested in the technology

New comment by nbaugh1 in "Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work"

nbaugh1 — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 17:05:38 +0000

Not at all. Submitting untested PRs is a wildly outside of my experience. Having tests written to cover your code is a pre-requisite for having your PR reviewed on our team. "Does it work" aka passing manual testing, is literally the bare minimum before submitting a PR

New comment by nbaugh1 in "AI World Clocks"

nbaugh1 — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 19:37:13 +0000

It is really interesting to watch them for a while. QWEN keeps outputting some really abstract interpretations of a clock, KIMI is consistently very good, GPT5's results line up exactly with my experience with its code output (overly complex and never working correctly)

New comment by nbaugh1 in "Laptops with Stickers"

nbaugh1 — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 14:10:54 +0000

"Besides nobody gives a shit about your stupid political opinions or the software stack you use."

But sure, tell everyone about your feelings on tattoos and stickers

New comment by nbaugh1 in "Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division"

nbaugh1 — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 13:29:21 +0000

Just missing the social programs that redistribute the wealth to the working class

The system/ideology you're looking for starts with an "F" and ends with "ascism"

New comment by nbaugh1 in "AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore"

nbaugh1 — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 12:05:52 +0000

Greenfield development of small web apps. I’m familiar enough with everything that I can get something up and running on my own, but I don’t do it regularly so I need to read a lot of docs to be up to date. I can describe the basic design and requirements of an app and have something like Claude Code spit out a prototype in a couple of hours

New comment by nbaugh1 in "AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore"

nbaugh1 — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 12:01:27 +0000

For me, on small personal projects, I can get a project to a point in about 4 hours where previous to new AI tools it would’ve taken about 40. At work, there is a huge difference due to the complexity of the code base and services. Using agents to code for me in these cases as 100% been the loop of iterating on something so often, I would’ve been better off with a more hands on approach, essentially just reviewing PRs written by AI.

New comment by nbaugh1 in "AI is killing the web – can anything save it?"

nbaugh1 — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 13:34:00 +0000

TBH I hate this version of the web, I have no problem with it being remade

New comment by nbaugh1 in "AI is killing the web – can anything save it?"

nbaugh1 — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 13:31:32 +0000

Or developers will have more free time to solve novel problems instead of wasting hours digging through Google results and StackOverflow threads to find answers to already solved problems

New comment by nbaugh1 in "Merlin Bird ID"

nbaugh1 — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 13:26:20 +0000

Yeah I use it almost everyday. I've gotten to where I frequently recognize new birds. I don't talk about it much because I haven't fully come to terms with entering a bird watching phase of my life, but occasionally I'll say something like "Oh that Northern Flicker is back" and my wife will be totally confused. We live in Brooklyn near Prospect Park and have a backyard so we get a pretty wide range of birds.

New comment by nbaugh1 in "Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March"

nbaugh1 — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 13:25:24 +0000

A lot of people do immigrate by flying in and not leaving when their visa expires. It doesn't make for very spectacular news footage though. Not sure what the numbers are, but I used to work in restaurants with lots of people who were "undocumented" and they all came to the US via flight. The people crossing the border on foot are absolutely destitute and easy targets of animosity