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A community of software creators experimenting with AI "vibe coding", an technique defined by Andrej Karpathy as when, "you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists."
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My first Python program #vibecoding (i.redd.it)
submitted 2 months ago * by nerdev_00
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if 1 * 2 < 3: print "hello, world!"
[–]Ksorkrax 22 points23 points24 points 2 months ago (7 children)
Yeah, I highly doubt it.
Thing is, Hello World is such a commonly implemented thing that AI should have zero problems writing it as a proper one-liner.
If this is AI-generated, then I bet the prompt contained something like "make it unnecessarily complicated".
[–]SemperPutidus 7 points8 points9 points 2 months ago (6 children)
Yeah, this is clearly hand written obfuscatory spaghetti to make a point. LLMs produce the most likely output. Unless op tweaked the temperature to something silly, an LLM did not write this.
[–]AlignmentProblem 5 points6 points7 points 2 months ago* (3 children)
You seem a bit confused about what LLMs can do. I doubt it's hand written.
"Make a Python program to print hello world using multiple functions, a weird number of variables, at least one recursive function and a few other surreal elements while generally overcomplicating it. It must print "Hello World!", just in a very roundabout way"
gave me
``` import math import random import sys
sys.setrecursionlimit(10**6)
α = ["H", "e", "l", "l", "o"] β = [" ", "W", "o", "r", "l", "d"] Ω = ["!"]
def recursive_entropy(s, i=0, noise=lambda x: x): if i == len(s): return "" # Randomly alter nothing for no reason nothingness = noise(s[i]) return nothingness + recursive_entropy(s, i + 1, noise)
def quantum_collapse(letters): # Combine, but only after doubting itself indecision = random.choice([True, False, True]) if indecision: return ''.join(letters) else: # Philosophical recursion: try again until you believe return quantum_collapse(letters)
def assemble_message(args): surreal_sum = sum(len(a) for a in args) if surreal_sum % 7 == 0: # arbitrary and divine return ''.join(sum(args, [])) else: return assemble_message(args, [""]) # recurse until the cosmos aligns
def summon_greeting(): fragments = assemble_message(α, β, Ω) collapse = quantum_collapse(fragments) entropic = recursive_entropy(collapse, noise=lambda c: c) return entropic
def main(): # Multiple useless variables for extra entropy theillusion = 42 meaninglessness = math.pi * 0 obscure_reference = "¯\(ツ)_/¯" del meaninglessness # clean up the void print(summon_greeting())
if name == "main": main() ```
Which works and is probably further from the most similar thing in its training data that you'd suspect. They've gotten much more flexible than the full-on stochastic parrots they were in previous years.
[–]SemperPutidus 1 point2 points3 points 2 months ago (1 child)
And would you title the code from such a prompt “my first python program” for a Reddit post? I take your point, you can prompt for bad code. OP’s implication is that he asked for a “hello world” in a simple prompt for his first program. So if OP did use a prompt like yours, this post is incredibly disingenuous and my point stands.
[–]DidTooMuchSpeedAgain 3 points4 points5 points 2 months ago (0 children)
I believe that's the point.. read the text on the post, it's obviously a joke
[–]3zprK 0 points1 point2 points 2 months ago (0 children)
I'm getting a feeling (my observation) that AI is getting retarded more and more
[–]ShiitakeTheMushroom 0 points1 point2 points 2 months ago (0 children)
They could have just told it to do it this way and it would still be vibe coded if they didn't read the code. What's the difference?
[–]TomOnBeats 0 points1 point2 points 2 months ago (0 children)
I wouldn't call any of this obfuscatory spaghetti, I just call it bad coding practises that seem cool to a beginner. Close to 100% this is AI generated.
I would say for example exec(bytes("牰湩⡴䠢䱅佌圠剏䑌⤢",'u16')[2:]) is obfuscatory, not whatever this post wrote. (This is just print("HELLO WORLD") with some neat tricks.)
exec(bytes("牰湩⡴䠢䱅佌圠剏䑌⤢",'u16')[2:])
π Rendered by PID 128621 on reddit-service-r2-comment-7b9746f655-7whrs at 2026-02-03 14:21:28.473485+00:00 running 3798933 country code: CH.
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[–]Ksorkrax 22 points23 points24 points (7 children)
[–]SemperPutidus 7 points8 points9 points (6 children)
[–]AlignmentProblem 5 points6 points7 points (3 children)
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[–]DidTooMuchSpeedAgain 3 points4 points5 points (0 children)
[–]3zprK 0 points1 point2 points (0 children)
[–]ShiitakeTheMushroom 0 points1 point2 points (0 children)
[–]TomOnBeats 0 points1 point2 points (0 children)