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Jeroen Ubbink
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GM! And now i have "Eye of the Tiger" stuck in my head for the rest of the day.. 😂

Well about a year ago vibe coding was not even a thing so let's give it a few years.

I can't deny that assistive llm's have made code production a lot faster, if not yet accessible for everyone.

The biggest concern that i have are the fundamentals of the llm's being really complex and totally not accessible to 99,999% of the population. Here is where innovation and improvement is needed the most. If you want big improvements you need people that can tinker in their basement with simple parts.

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Vibe coding could be as transformative as steam power, and it's unleashing a gold rush where the space of prospecting is ideas.

Let's talk about idea men. An "idea man" is a pejorative, implying someone who only has ideas, they never get off the ground, they're stuck dreaming, and even living in those dreams without caring enough to bring them to fruition. Imagine you're someone in the 1800s who dreams of running a large textile factory but there just isn't the power nearby to run the mill. No powerful rivers, no steady winds. Steam power comes in to the picture and turns a power problem into a much smaller more manageable people problem.

Vibe coding lowers the cost of coding which is a lot like increasing humanity's coding power. Now idea men who couldn't see coding their own prototype from scratch or hiring a bunch of devs and pitching the venture capital can literally type their idea into a tool like Shakespeare. They can go through revisions in hours rather than weeks and months. They now have the power to address market needs in a day..

Often I've felt like an idea man. I keep a lot of them around and always come up with new ones, but I've had too many interests to give each idea the time it needed in the pre-vibe-coding era. A few days with Shakespeare is like installing a big new steam power plant. Now each idea isn't a burden, it's an opportunity. Which leads me to ask the community....

What do you want to see? If idea people are now empowered, bring out your best armchair coding ideas and let's talk about them. Doesn't take more than a motion and a second to try an idea out. Everyone has used better and worse apps. What is something in an app, any app that you use now that could take a better form that you saw before?

I'm posting this on Nostr and Nostr only but if this is such a transformative force then we should think bigger. There are billions out there dying to use what we come up with here, and by instilling out values of decentralization, freedom, and self-sovereignty we can do more with our apps than 1,000 protests and campaigns. What do you say? #vibestr

I think it's a bit early to call this as transformative as a steam engine. For starters a steam engine is, compared to vibe coding a significantly simpler concept, where you only need few parts that are available plenty.

You can explain the steam engine concept in a school and students can easily grasp this, building this yourself requires mediocre knowledge, materials and resources (money).

I think the comparison here should be the output required by the end product of the steam engine (kinetic energy) vs vibecoding. Yes most people can use the kinetic energy just like they can use the output of llm's (one of them being vibecoding), but building a steam engine is significantly easier, simpler and more scalable then producing an infrastructure that enables vibecoding.

Building a vibecoding infrastructure from scratch requires massive amounts of resources, only available to big companies. Building your own is too expensive and complex, so since there are only a handful of people (large companies) able to do this i see much less innovation on that end and much faster stagnation.

I don't disagree that it is great to quickly churn out apps (or PoC's at least) but it will mostly benefit the companies offering the infrastructure and much less humanity as a whole.

I think it's a nice PoC but i do not expect to ever be able to chat with any of my neighbors, but it would be great if we could abstract the mesh network and turn it into an open source lib that people could integrate into their apps with so much ease that it would be wasteful to not use it. That way you can maybe build pretty decent mesh networks that specifically in dense areas could stretch to loads of people.

I understand the appeal is very small because internet so far has proven to be too resilient to justify any of this. I have often thought about mesh networking with my friends over wifi when i was younger but getting tlos was mostly an jssue and well, we could already communicate over the regular lines that were in place which are in most cases actually faster as well.

I think in most cases where this would be useful it will always be too late because you would need an internet connection to obtain an app that would integrate you on a mesh network and no normie will ever install it until that moment arrives.

Talk about upside down clown world. If they don't want their citizens to do something with my "services" they can deal with it themselves. Even talking about it is actually a waste of time. Blunt ignorance seems the best approach to me. You are not helping any UK citizen either by doing this. Taking away their options to screw their government will only make them North Korea.

Thanks. It was mostly a well-timed shot in the right direction, but we do have great spots in our city and it's pretty filled with lush nature.

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nostr:npub19zscu28djwhapecs3hh9qj5kr89hahq6mlx50dsqf72x8xxqv06q8xzyhq stopping corn subsidies, might reduce the blight of high fructose corn syrup in half of US “food products” and reduce fertilizer runoff, which will help MAHA. This should make America less obese and sick.

Internal combustion engines will also last longer without the centrally planner ethanol mix, which is more environmentally positive than having to purchase an entire new vehicle a few years sooner. Again, more funds and success for MAHA.

On one end this is great, but on the other it's really stupid that so many people have to rely on a government stepping in to ensure people stop becoming or being obese. This gives even more power to them.

People need to learn to read labels and be informed that there are companies trying to profit of their health and addictive behaviours. We need way more nutritionists explaining simple metabolism. We need doctors to stop saying you are obese because you eat too much fat and your bloodlevels are too high because you eat too much salt and red meat causes cancer.

I still think this is better than any governmen has ever done for the health of its people in maybe the last 50 years, but it's still an issue that people turn into sheep because the government controls their lives way too much and it involes blind trust.

No just a stroll around my city, or village, from a non-european perspective most likely.

Good so far but i did a lot of housekeeping and other stuff so far.

Gonna chill out this afternoon with my homey, watch Reinier de Ridder fuck up Robert Whittaker and some other UFC matches.

Enjoy your Sunday!

GM!

Had a great time and great pizza with my sister and hubby yesterday. They make great pizza for sure. Broke my carnivore for it.

Unfortunately my body protests. Slept bad, and my colons are going crazy. Thinking about trying to run or cycle it out or do something that might speed up the digestion a bit.

This cannot possibly be serious.