still low on energy these days, so I should acknowledge that I am probably not supposed to feel like a museum piece by the comment about Before Times… but I don’t remember ever having a thought in the shape of “this app should exist” myself, so yeah, I probably do feel like a museum piece now
as for the more-likely-intended genuine interest about my closest examples I can think of how I deal with these kinds of situations:
if I randomly visit a friend and they are cooking dinner and they ask me if I want some, I say yes (..as a stereotypical cis man when it comes to free food)
in a recent PR, in the code slop from @mruwnik, I can see what was the tradeoff that the imperative DOM shit was simpler for the team at the time to do and that the code could have been improved “later” if needed for more complex features .. and now @Olivier Coutu with the help of coding assistants will need to parse my comment about potential memory leaks—is that situation better with coding assistants or would it have been better if the current team was forced to pay some human developer if they wanted new features to be developed? (although the “average” humans would probably produce slop code too)
if I have a dispute with my husband, we argue in person
if I have a dispute with my ex, we tend to have difficult conversations over whatsapp
is whatsapp a dispute app for me? no.
if I am interested to continue a conversation about how exactly we seem to misunderstand each other in a comment section of a lesswrong post, I write one more comment
is lesswrong a dispute app for me? maybe.
if someone could benefit from a vibe-coded dispute app even though I am clearly not the target audience myself, does that sound like a good thing to happen in the world?
yes
is vibecoding going to be a net benefit for the vibecoders and for humanity?
I’ve set up a calendar reminder for 1 year from now to ask @sarahconstantin that here .. no idea myself, just a big fat bias towards “oh god no”
Oi! I take issue with you calling my code slop! That was good old fashioned the least rubbish option available, which then grew out of hand! Also known as not knowing how to do frontend properly...
still low on energy these days, so I should acknowledge that I am probably not supposed to feel like a museum piece by the comment about Before Times… but I don’t remember ever having a thought in the shape of “this app should exist” myself, so yeah, I probably do feel like a museum piece now
as for the more-likely-intended genuine interest about my closest examples I can think of how I deal with these kinds of situations:
if I spot a bug in software I am using and I have energy to report it with repro steps, I try to do that—not exactly asking a “buddy” but whatever, e.g. https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/41707
if I randomly visit a friend and they are cooking dinner and they ask me if I want some, I say yes (..as a stereotypical cis man when it comes to free food)
when I visit a website a lot and their dark mode has big eye-piercing white button, I go ahead and add a style for myself using https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/styl-us/ to make that button dark:
when I wanted to see a spreadsheet of buildings in a game, I made one .. and why not open source it too even if probably no one else will ever use it .. https://peter.hozak.info/urbek/#?c0=Desert,c37=\+,
or long time ago when I joined https://github.com/odegroot/Anno-2070-data-extraction so that I could make the optimized layout shown as the first table row on https://anno2070.fandom.com/wiki/Eco_%26_Tycoon_Housing_Layouts#Without_Monument
in a recent PR, in the code slop from @mruwnik, I can see what was the tradeoff that the imperative DOM shit was simpler for the team at the time to do and that the code could have been improved “later” if needed for more complex features .. and now @Olivier Coutu with the help of coding assistants will need to parse my comment about potential memory leaks—is that situation better with coding assistants or would it have been better if the current team was forced to pay some human developer if they wanted new features to be developed? (although the “average” humans would probably produce slop code too)
if I have a dispute with my husband, we argue in person
if I have a dispute with my ex, we tend to have difficult conversations over whatsapp
is whatsapp a dispute app for me? no.
if I am interested to continue a conversation about how exactly we seem to misunderstand each other in a comment section of a lesswrong post, I write one more comment
is lesswrong a dispute app for me? maybe.
if someone could benefit from a vibe-coded dispute app even though I am clearly not the target audience myself, does that sound like a good thing to happen in the world?
yes
is vibecoding going to be a net benefit for the vibecoders and for humanity?
I’ve set up a calendar reminder for 1 year from now to ask @sarahconstantin that here .. no idea myself, just a big fat bias towards “oh god no”
Oi! I take issue with you calling my code slop! That was good old fashioned the least rubbish option available, which then grew out of hand! Also known as not knowing how to do frontend properly...