And I don't watch TV so it won't help either.

After posting my first comment I actually did asked, first at work and later to friends/family ; the only positive answer was from someone who listen to France Inter daily. Otherwise they said they never heard of the guy.

Actually it's an interesting topic because it's far from the first time that I see some journalist talking about "someone famous", and yet I never heard of them.

It seems that there's actually no real "mainstream medias" like it used to be when I grew up, where the vast majority of people were watching the 20h everyday. Talking to adults in their 20s is quite illuminating. Things we could consider "mainstream" are unknown to them. They don't even know they exists.

If his supposed popularity is coming from a spot on France Culture, I understand why I'm not familiar with him or his work

Never heard of him

They shifted right (VPS-1 2026 is now VPS-2 2027) and increased prices.

Crazy stuff

I wasn't involved, but I heard last year they tried to vibedeploy, provisioning an AWS account in their own name with their own credit card. I let you imagine what happened and why they haven't retried this since.

I started digging a few times, but, I prefer the "magic".

It could be okay if it wasn't for the fact that they have a high esteem of themselves and don't learn shit.

The first POC they vibecoded and managed to sell was a pile of trash that we couldn't realistically deploy as it.

So we spent two weeks to make it something decent enough to have the minimum confidence of the thing being reliable and safe enough to reach staging. Two weeks during they told us daily how we were slowing everything down.

After that we spent an hour explaining them how making something works on their computer, without tests, without thinking about edge cases... was not the same thing as deploying it and releasing it to actual users.

We agreed on, next time, asking us for an estimate on how much it would take to move the POC to something that could be released, before signing on any engagement with a customer.

Well, last week they came with a new deal they just signed on a completely new POC. Customer was expecting it for yesterday. To make it work, we have to setup a VPN between our infra and customer infra. Their internal process make it impossible to have this under a month.

Now, my guy and the customer, are mad at me because I can't deliver.

And the first POC? Customer wants new features. My guy don't want to deal with it because it's not their job.

And with the kSuite, you have everything: file storage, chat, emails...

I have no involvement with the company, except as a happy customer for many years

A bit disappointed by the name

Forcing people to create a MS account to log in their Windows computer, that's because of backward compatibility?

Pushing Copilot absolutely everywhere, that's because of backward compatibility?

GitHub being down almost daily, that's because of backward compatibility?

But if you still want ChatGPT/Claude, then you simply create a custom bang and associate it with something like `https://chatgpt.com/?q=%s`

So now in your address bar you type "how to center a div !gpt" and it will start a session with your query

Their friend are probably the kind of people conflating Chrome/Google with "The Internet"

And I think on Android its even less clear the distinction between the browser app and "Google"

I used to be deep into photography in the 00s, until I came to the conclusion that I was spending lots of money, spending hours trying to take the perfect picture and then hours reworking them on the computer... for what?

Sure, I had fun while doing all of this, but to me art is about sharing. And given the sheer amount of pictures that were published daily on Flickr at the time, I basically had to spend more time in trying to reach out to people to share with them, than in creating something, which was my initial goal.

Or I could strong-harm my relatives, but I myself hate people that are forcing me to watch at their kids/holidays pictures, so...

And looking at the figures on your pictures, taking them at absolute value (not considering what personal value you can give them), it seems that your art is not seen by many. Contrary to thousands of random pictures of take-away than can reach thousands of eyes in a mater of hours.

Which is, to me, depressing. You put your soul in something and it has almost no reach, while random snapshots got millions of views.

And I see how the same thing will apply to software: flood of vibecoded trash that can be used by many, while deeply thought after software will be used by a few.

The good news for me here is that I never thought software as art but only a tool. I can vibecode the hell out of an issue, and the code will live on my private repos. Don't care. Sometimes I put stuff on Github but I don't care if someone (or something) uses it. I'm focussed on solving my issues.