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clanker crusades
I'm mostly crusading against the endless stream of bullshit.
I could sense that the vibing scene has amassed huge amounts of bad quality code output
Yes. And it's tricky to spot for the human eye, but also for vanilla bots. For example, you ask Claude to do a full security review on some vibed crap it will tell you it's great - some minor issues (it will literally flag shit as minor.) But if you actually spec out a quality expectation (that is not even too crazy, like things you would put in a definition of done in a regular commercial software business and that's already super-low-bar) then suddenly there are more issues than the bot is trained to enumerate (really annoying thing they taught these bots to do: limit lists of issues.)
competent people (such as you are)
I guess that depends on who you ask, I'm generally synonymous with rectal pain, lol.
now everyone thinks real graphic design is obsolete
This is exactly the bullshit I'm seeing all around me and it comes directly from the labs pumping their own bags. All the US labs do it and people believe it - even overseas people - because they are dependent on some sociopath giving them hope. It bothers me deeply and endlessly how vulnerable humanity is to bullshit. This is the real issue. LLMs are just tools - poorly developed tools but it's early days - the people blindly repeating false narratives thought up by greedy folks is what makes it dangerous. Very dangerous.
If compute stopped being so heavily subsidized
It'll end only when inflation and salaries catch up to the insane valuations of startups we see, or the hype dies. Not counting SpaceX because that is a conglomerate so it's hard to estimate which of its products will hold, but let's see what happens post-IPO with Anthropic and OpenAI. If these hold the valuations ascribed to them now, subsidized compute will end when overall salaries did a 10x and you pay $50 for a dozen eggs. Then we'll also see if Bitcoin truly is an inflation hedge.
then my guess is the more meaningful applications would become more apparent.
We'll have to see. I do know that there is still good stuff out there, and effort is not gone. It does sadden me to see some formerly okay-ish products become unusable. Especially in nostr this is now prominent, which sucks.
I appreciate the detailed testimony. You know, I have followed along on your clanker crusades for a little bit now, getting sparse detailes here and there, and I could sense that the vibing scene has amassed huge amounts of bad quality code output that make competent the jobs of competent people (such as you are) harder. There's a shadow of this on the meat space cronyism that I'm more familiar with, which is, as I alluded to above, a false sense of competency. Bad logos, wall-art, signage etc. is everywhere because now everyone thinks real graphic design is obselete. Badly thought out emails with way too much text are sent more often. On net, we get lower quality ....everywhere. And increasingly, fewer and fewer people seem to notice or care.
If compute stopped being so heavily subsidized, and the cost of using it were higher, then my guess is the more meaningful applications would become more apparent.