The worst part about colleagues who vibe-code is that you can't ask them whether some particularly distorted pile of code vomit was generated because it might just that they've tried to do their jobs for once and that was truly all they could manage.
You know, this might be like Asimov's first galactic empire in decline, barely anyone knows how to build anything worth a damn anymore.
I believe it's fairly safe to say that the world is now fully meschugge.
I know you bitcoiners don't like Libertarians but here, I think this is pretty comprehensive:
When people refer to 4-letter-words having been used, I imagine a slightly upset 1950s man in a suit saying: "Holy drum roll, Bill, call Dave, fast!"
The most difficult part of designing any sort of democratic system is to uphold the illusion of participation and agency while ensuring that power lies firmly in the hands of those who wish to acquire resources without giving anything in return and who have no intention of changing said system in a way that doesn't benefit them.
Fortunately, that particular problem has already been solved several generations ago, with resounding success.
I just realized that when out intern told us that his AI friend told him that we couldn't build some feature because it went against some pointless regulation, that was actually the first I heard an unironic version of "Computer says no" in real life.
I think you really failed the whole state and propaganda game if it becomes controversial or even criminal to sing a government's "national anthem".
Of course I'm thinking of former East Germany and the People's State of Canada.
Thanks to excessive government intervention, we have evolved into an entirely new species - the Homo Restrictus
