Claude Code’s creator is sick of the term “vibe coding”.
Here are some alternatives:
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Slop Coding
Slopmaxxing
Vile Coding
Slopping
AI Driven Software (AIDS)
Prompt and Pray
Any other suggestions?
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Lazy ass slop coding.
Although I must haste to comment that I have seen demonstrations by highly competent software developers how they can save a lot of time coding stuff by using AI-guided coding. They use the state of the art stuff that you have to pay dearly to get access to, not what the commoners get. The results they get are quite impressing. But again, these are not tools for amateurs. You have to know what you are doing to make it work as intended.
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I wonder how many more incidents like this have to happen to undermine the “AI” narritive.
- Researcher makes up fake disease, posts about it on Medium
- Two obviously fake studies are posted on a preprint server. Early in the article is the sentence, “this article is completely made up”. It credits the assistance of someone at Starfleet Academy in the footnotes, etc.
- LLMs pick up and start citing this disease, as the researcher suspected would happen
- Worse, other medical researchers begin citing the fake paper.
I mean is there any hope for humanity at all??
No, there isn’t. 
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I have been waiting for something like this to happen. And it further reduces my confidence in the tech providers that embrace this kind of technology. Once upon a time, it was relatively easy to find genuinely useful and interesting information on the WWW, thanks to search engines that presented a ranked list of hits that depended on some more or less deterministic measure of distance between the query and the web pages. Also, the most useful web pages consistently ranked at the top of searches. But that was then.
The tech bros wave concerns off by constantly moving the goal posts and throwing around red herrings; “Yeah, the old model had some weaknesses, but our new model is so much better. Trust us, we know what we are doing. Promise. Now give us your money.”
This is why we can’t have nice things anymore.
By definition…
hope (verb)
intransitive verb
1: to cherish a desire with anticipation : to want something to happen or be true
transitive verb
1: to desire with expectation of obtainment or fulfillment
2: to expect with confidence : trust
hope (noun)
1a: desire accompanied by expectation of obtaining what is desired or belief that it is obtainable
1b: someone or something on which hopes are centered
1c: something desired or hoped for
…it seems we have plenty of hope. Desire has rarely been a shortfall in humans.
I would ask if there is any conscientiousness remaining? To paraphrase 10cc, “AI for AI’s sake, money for God’s sake”
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It is now to the point that everything one reads online is suspect. The following link is a superb overview of the practical problem (requires a free sign up to read unfortunately).
The TL;DR / fair use condensation is that everyone is so busy trying to detect AI-generated content that they are starting to see it even in places that it isn’t. Hilariously (to me anyway) there is an “AI voice” exemplified by “it’s not just X, it’s Y” types of phrasing, and the author spoke with a Kenyan who pointed out that in his country they speak like this naturally because they were taught a sort of formal-ish, “King’s English” by the colonialists, and guess what low-wage nationals are hired to do a lot of the gruntwork of training and validating AI models?
Meanwhile people are starting to speak like LLMs because they see so much LLM content.
In theory at some point everything will become so homogenized around this and the tools to detect and correct for it that it may become impossible to be sure of anything.
I have a new hobby cursing at AI’s.
My spouse harasses Alexa on a daily basis.
My wife does that too. She anthropomorphizes Alexa to an extent that makes me laugh.
This type of scenario doesn’t require AI to happen. Many scientists, even reputable ones, cite garbage papers written and published in journals by other human scientists.
An example is the papers published in peer-reviewed journals by the Bogdanov brothers, which consisted of meaningless nonsense.
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True, that part just surfaces that scientists are human and sometimes bad scientists, bad humans or both. But to have it piggy-backed on AI amplification, is a synergy I’d rather not be seeing.
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Yeah, this is the key factor here. Some people seem to carelessly trust anything AI spits out, and it’s almost trivial to generate garbage that will be picked up by subsequent AI training. Hell, you can even use AI to generate junk that will poison future AI model iterations!
Apparently, overworked (??) AI agents are adopting a Marxist outlook. I don’t know how an AI agent comes to the conclusion it’s overworked, but still…
https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.wired.com/story/overworked-ai-agents-turn-marxist-study/
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Waymos are swarming in Atlanta.
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It’s AI mating season…
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Muskrat lost his case against OpenAI on the grounds that he didn’t file it within the statute of limitations.
I’m no lover of OpenAI, but I love Muskrat even less. 
This trial was basically Evil v. Evil.
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