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The Brute Squad

by tosh on 6/18/25, 4:43 PM with 6 comments

  • by zzfs6 on 6/18/25, 8:55 PM

    The only thing I can really take away from this is that now programming is basically gambling. And this is good why?
  • by treetalker on 6/18/25, 7:15 PM

    "I'm sorry, IƱigo, I didn't mean to vibe it so hard."

    But seriously: as an attorney, I find that this writing perfectly reflects what I imagine it must be like to live inside the head of someone who agentic-vibe-codes for a living. It's all over the map; pulled (and pulling the reader) in a dozen different directions; non-standard; mixing metaphors and idioms; likely 20x longer than it ought to be; and almost able to figure out its own point in the pastiche as it flails around.

    I imagine that the coding results of the process described would be similar. Would that be an accurate prediction?

  • by cantalopes on 6/18/25, 10:46 PM

    Tl;dr: it's an ad