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There's hundreds of gameboy emulators available on Github they've been trained on. It's quite literally the simplest piece of emulation you could do. The fact that they couldn't do it before is an indictment of how shit they were, but a gameboy emulator should be a weekend project for anyone even ever so slightly qualified. Your benchmark was awful to begin with.

Your expectations are wild. Most software engineers could not write a game boy emulator - and now you need zero programming skills whatsoever to write one.

Also take something into account: absolutely _none_ of the vibe coding influencer bros make anything more complicated than a single-feature, already implemented 50 times webapp. They've never built anything complicated either, or maintained something for more than a few years with all the warts that it entails. Literally, from his bio on his website:

> For 12 years, I led data and analytics at Indeed - creating company-wide success metrics used in board meetings, scaling SMB products 6x, managing organizations of 70+ people.

He's a manager that made graphs on Power BI.

They're not here because they want to build things, they're here to shit a product out and make money. By the time Claude has stopped being able to pipe together ffmpeg commands or glue together 3 JS libraries, they've gone on to another project and whoever bought it is a sucker.

It's not that much different from the companies of the 2000s promising a 5th generation language with a UI builder that would fix everything.

And then, as a very last warning: the author of this piece sells AI consulting services. It's in his interest to make you believe everything he has to say about AI, because by God is there going to be suckers buying his time at indecently high prices to get shit advice. This sucker is most likely your boss, by the way.


No true programmer would vibecode an app, eh?

Oh no, they would. I would.

I'd have the decency to know and tell people that it's a steaming pile of shit and that I have no idea how it works though, and would not have the shamelessness to sell a course on how to put out LLM vomit in public though.

Engineering implies respect for your profession. Act like it.


But invoking No True Scotsman would imply that the focus is on gatekeeping the profession of programming. I don’t think the above poster is really concerned with the prestige aspect of whether vibe bros should be considered true programmers. They’re more saying that if you’re a regular programmer worried about becoming obsolete, you shouldn’t be fooled by the bluster. Vibe bros’ output is not serious enough to endanger your job, so don’t fret.

Most people running it are normies that saw it on linkedin and ran the funny "brew install" command they saw linked because "it automates their life" said the AI influencer.

Absolutely nobody in any meaningful amount is running this sandboxed.


It's funny because now you're sounding like you're blaming the school/the city for the situation.

Things are what they are. Driving situations are never perfect and that's why we adapt. The Waymo was speeding in a school zone. Did a dangerously fast overtake of a double parked car. It's engineering safety failure over engineering safety failure from Waymo's part, on nobody else.


> The Waymo was speeding in a school zone

Source? The article doesn't list a speed limit, but highways.dot.gov suggests to me that the speed limit would be 25mph in the school zone, in which case the waymo was going significantly under the speed limit.


It is 15mph at this school with kids present. So percentage wise kind of high, but in absolute terms not much.

The person you're responding to isn't a journalist, they're a mouthpiece. Pushing means they don't get these interviews anymore.

The quality of whatever they put out as a result of it is yours to take into consideration.


>In that case, give it 6 months or less for US TSMC foundries to produce the finest.

It's really a blind belief in american exceptionalism that makes you think this is even possible.

No, the chip factory that has had dozens of years of experience and local talent scaling up to make the most complicated products in human existence doesn't magically get up to par in 6 months. At best in 6 months they've figured out how to be less sensitive to vibrations and reach a low yield. The US doesn't have the trained workforce for this job, nor the infrastructures _around_ the fab (specialized hardware, electronics and engineering schools, various bits and bobs).

US TSMC doesn't get properly running in less than 5 years, and even that would be a miracle. You're also assuming that US TSMC has the current N2P or even N3E processes, and that agent orange doesn't burn bridges with europe hard enough that ASML stops selling to anyone related to the US.


"-4 makes sense if you consider that the calculator is so damn stupid it ignores every convention every single calculator has made in the past hundred years and instead copies behavior of a dumbass language" isn't exactly the praise you think it is.

Your "long history as a nation" mostly means you have a flawed constitution, no counter powers, a broken political system and absolutely _zero_ attempts to fix it.

There's a reason proper countries have had 5+ constitutions and keep changing them.


The point is that it doesn't matter, the US is toxic for the next foreseeable twenty years, and for Europe as a whole, a threat and an enemy. We'd be stupid to keep funding your economy, no matter how much money it makes back. Enemies are to be taken down.

>under this president and the one who replaces him in three years.

The levels of optimism in this sentence are off the charts. The US's political systems are so weak, fragile and compromised that you don't even know if you're going to hold proper midterms or if you're going to get a civil war, the current president is threatening the FED, but sure, debts are going to be paid when it's ran by the dude that managed to bankrupt casinos.


Note: TalkBack is the best case scenario you're getting on Android. I've seen some abominations coming out of Samsung's implementation, and results will vary from device to device.

Still, assume people are using TalkBack and don't take reports from anything else, it'll prevent you from going insane.


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