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New comment by slopinthebag in "App Store sees 84% surge in new apps as AI coding tools take off"

slopinthebag — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:08:50 +0000

No, building on top of other peoples work is fine. Taking credit for work you didn't do is not the same.

New comment by slopinthebag in "App Store sees 84% surge in new apps as AI coding tools take off"

slopinthebag — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:08:07 +0000

Nah, but you have to actually put the work in to get the credit. Lazily vibe coding slop and then passing it off as your work is like claiming you cooked a microwave meal.

New comment by slopinthebag in "App Store sees 84% surge in new apps as AI coding tools take off"

slopinthebag — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:06:58 +0000

I do, and plenty of other people. It's fine if you don't, but people will justifiably let you know how they feel about that :)

New comment by slopinthebag in "App Store sees 84% surge in new apps as AI coding tools take off"

slopinthebag — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:24:47 +0000

To me this is fair. If you vibe code something and try to pass it off as your own work people will be angry about the deception.

New comment by slopinthebag in "ML promises to be profoundly weird"

slopinthebag — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:17:18 +0000

> A large amount of code is likely just idiosynchratic information processing, because we don’t agree on data models and meaning of terms and structure of protocols.

Yes this is a big part of what I'm talking about!

> Also we repeatedly choose easy and popular over alternatives that would require design and scrutiny.

Agreed!

But I'm also thinking of UI. We had stuff like winforms and Delphi ~3 decades ago and I yearn for the wysisyg. It's so incredibly stupid we keep reinventing the wheel on UI, and I say this as someone who has written UI code professionally for the last decade. I usually just "vibe code" it now, not because it's necessarily faster, but because I just can't be arsed to keep writing the same shit over and over again. It's all self inflicted, yes UI can be complicated, but we make it at least two orders of magnitude more complicated than it needs to be.

I'm working on my own tools for building UI's in a visual way, which is crucial for doing anything artistic. Insane that the best we have right now is stuff like Wix and Wordpress...

New comment by slopinthebag in "The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess"

slopinthebag — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:11:56 +0000

I think over time we will find better usage patterns for these machines. Even putting a model in a position to gaslight the user seems like a complete failure in the usage model. Not critiquing you at all on this, it's how these models are marketed and what all the tooling is built around. But they are incredibly useful and I think once we figure out how to use them better we can minimise these downsides and make ourselves much more productive without all the failures.

Of course that won't happen until the bubble pops - companies are racing to make themselves indispensable and to completely corner certain markets and to do so they need autonomous agents to replace people.

New comment by slopinthebag in "The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess"

slopinthebag — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:08:42 +0000

I think it says more about the amount of automation we left on the table in the last few decades. So much of the code LLM's can generate are stuff that we should have completely abstracted away by now.

New comment by slopinthebag in "The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess"

slopinthebag — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:06:52 +0000

I sort of agree. In this context "bullshit" means "speech intended to persuade without regard for truth", and while it's true that LLM output is without regard for truth, it's not an entity capable of the agency to persuade, although functionally that is what it can appear like.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit

New comment by slopinthebag in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

slopinthebag — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:51:25 +0000

Thats pretty funny actually, but I'm not the one going around telling everyone they're cooked if they don't adopt my expensive workflow which disenfranchises myself from my work and makes me more replaceable.

New comment by slopinthebag in "ML promises to be profoundly weird"

slopinthebag — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:49:51 +0000

Great series of articles, thank you. It's exhausting reading a deluge of (often AI generated) comments from people claiming wild things about LLM's, and it's nice to hear some sanity enter the conversation.

New comment by slopinthebag in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

slopinthebag — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:07:02 +0000

Whatever helps you sleep at night kiddo

New comment by slopinthebag in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

slopinthebag — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 04:47:44 +0000

The only people who are "cooked" are those who rely on SOTA models to function in their jobs, and companies who are desperate to regulate open / local models to maintain their marketshare.

New comment by slopinthebag in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

slopinthebag — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 04:45:11 +0000

Yep, this is exactly it. Open source models and especially ones that run locally are catching up and it's literally an existential threat to these companies. Local models are now quite useful (Qwen, Gemma) and open weight models running on cheaper clouds are perfectly sufficient for use by responsible software engineers to use for building software. You can take your pick of Kimi 2.5, GLM 5.1, and the soon to be released Deepseek 4 which might end up above Opus levels as it stands for a fifth of the cost. Anthropic is particularly vulnerable here, since their entire marketshare rests on the developer market. There is a reason why Google for example, is not so concerned with this and is perfectly happy releasing open models which cut into their own marketshare, and to a lesser extend, same with OpenAI. Anthropic has bet the house on software development which is why we see increasing desperation to both lobby for regulation on open/local models and to wall off their coding harness and subscription plans.

New comment by slopinthebag in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

slopinthebag — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 04:30:10 +0000

Says the marketing department of the company who is apparently still working on these AI models and will 100% release them to the public when their competitive advantage slips.

New comment by slopinthebag in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

slopinthebag — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 04:28:34 +0000

It's incredible how when you have experienced and knowledgable software engineers analyse these marketing claims, they turn out to be full of holes. Yet at the same time, apparently "AI" will be writing all the code in the next 3-6 months.

New comment by slopinthebag in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

slopinthebag — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:25:14 +0000

The fact that this reads as deranged fantasy and yet I can believe is 100% real is insane lol

New comment by slopinthebag in "Why the majority of vibe coded projects fail"

slopinthebag — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 04:52:34 +0000

Debatable if those would have existed regardless, since their creators were already experts and uber talented. They often wrote their own engines anyways or used lower level libraries like Monogame.

New comment by slopinthebag in "Why the majority of vibe coded projects fail"

slopinthebag — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 04:21:42 +0000

Are you wondering if in the future AI will take a spec in natural language and convert it into thousands or millions of lines of code every time a bug is surfaced?

New comment by slopinthebag in "Why the majority of vibe coded projects fail"

slopinthebag — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 04:20:14 +0000

This is true, but people also seem to think that means we're going to be getting more worthwhile software, yet that is never really the case. Look at how commercially available game engines made publishing A and AA games more accessible, the expectation is a flood of amazing indie games but it's actually just a flood of slop and cash grabs and asset flips. And now the same thing is happening again in the game industry, like it is with the software industry.

New comment by slopinthebag in "France pulls last gold held in US"

slopinthebag — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:17:43 +0000

That's an oversimplification. Demand-side deflation can be bad for the economy, but it's also because our modern economies are basically reliant on inflation to manage our insane debts. Typically, critique of inflationary principles is coupled with a broader critique of MMT and how our economies are run. Deflation is fine or even beneficial when it comes from increased productivity (supply-side). Heck, we have deflation in some sectors of our economy (eg. technology) and consumers greatly benefit from it. Unfortunately the good type of deflation we see in our economies is overshadowed by the money printer going brrrrrrr.

Deflation is bad for the elites and politicians, and good for consumers. When the former are running the show, of course they will claim that deflation is the worst thing ever, despite the immense harm inflation inflicts on the average person. And if you spend like 5 minutes pondering the justification for why that is, you'll see it's mostly BS.