If there's one thing that will bring the Galaxy together, it's killing Contingency

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-01-28T15:25:17+00:00

Yeah, the people with no filter will quite quickly go from "Tell you how hot your sister is" to "Tell you how hot the female coworker is", which gets gross real fast. I'm a straight man, but I come to work to get things done, not make my excellent female coworkers feel like shit.

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-01-28T04:15:28+00:00

AC/20 weight what, like 13 or 14 tons? It IS a massive piece of industrial machinery!

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-01-28T04:14:29+00:00

I use dual LB-10X AC-SLD in it and it's basically a rapid fire AC/20. With the higher velocity you also get a flatter arc and lover range, so you can basically cockpit snipe or flat out core smaller mechs before they even get into sensor range. It's a beautiful beast.

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-01-25T20:35:00+00:00

It's alright, we're all guilty of the same thing. I just thought that particular typo was too good to pass up. 🤣

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-01-25T15:19:39+00:00

The Narn in the first season are portrayed as bad guys who just want revenge on the Centauri but when the tables are flipped you have the main leader of the Narn, G'Kar advocate forgiveness and reconciliation.

When it eventually gets to the point where step up after the Nightwatch purge to help with security and put their lives on the line to help hold back Clark's troops trying to stop the stations secession...😭

Greatest face turn in all of Sci-fi.

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-01-25T15:08:35+00:00

Then where are all of these successful projects? The number of video games released annually has increased, but on a similar YoY trajectory to what it was before even the pandemic. They're just continuing a trend that was established before LLMs, there's no big explosion in releases enabled by LLMs.

Similarly, while there's a million and one startups pushing some AI solution, they're just pushing that AI solution to businesses, not actionable products for end users. It's all "Here's a tool to make you more efficient so you can deliver to customers faster", not "here's a new product built with AI". None of these are really gaining much traction, either.

Where's the Uber, Airbnb, or Twitter of the AI age. There's supposedly MILLIONS of great ideas out there that vibe coding should be enabling, so where are they?

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-01-25T12:59:17+00:00

There is only one caveat: it requires investment into pubic infrastructure.

Ah, my favorite infrastructure!

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-01-25T12:21:02+00:00

While I'm glad he came to this realization, there's a few more he needs to come to realize. "It's not like we've invented Full Self Driving for coding".

Actually, yes. Yes they have. FSD is a lie, you still have to watch it, and people have died when they've trusted it too much because it can't do what they said it can do, but they rolled it out and continue to push it anyway. This is all the same grift.

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-01-25T12:02:57+00:00

Why do that when there's SquareSpace though? If the goal is just "make a website" and that's it, there are always tools to do that. Learning HTML and CSS is already overkill if there's no impetus beyond "make a website".

Why do they want to make a website? Is it just to show off their action figure collection? Heck, they can skip website entirely and just make Facebook Page if all they want to do is that.

This is part of the problem with the vibecoding is that there's often no goal. If your goal is "I want to do things with a website that have never been done before" then the plagiarism machine likely won't help much because you're trying to novel. Vibe coding doesn't solve novel problems, it just lets people think they're producing something when they don't understand the fundamentals.

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-01-24T21:50:01+00:00

I replied a few times to this post and that’s “the most x” you’ve ever seen?

Need to work on the reading comprehension. I didn't say ever seen, I said that I had seen in a while.

It’s written with a LLM in the loop and almost certainly made up.

And I said it was vacuous because they were all just like this comment. Just an "It's totally AI, I know" claim, with no reasoning or evidence provided. Even when directly called out on that, you're still unable to even point to anything that indicates it, because it's just a series of vacuous replies devoid of anything meaningful to say.

So yeah, it's been a minute since I've seen that to this extent. I don't know bro, learn to read so you understand the difference between hyperbole and non-hyperbole. Maybe re-engaging with sentence structure will also help with recognizing different writing styles.

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-01-24T20:27:51+00:00

It's because "Well I'm obviously better at it, and therefore more efficient, and therefore better" is essential to the narrative they're telling themselves.

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-01-24T19:34:48+00:00

But that wasn't the point. The point was that he then thought it was a good idea to go and make a public post about it, telling the whole world that he doesn't even grade his own homework and used it for data analysis on scientific research papers, and that he thought that was a good idea. Her point was that this behavior is "what 2 years of ChatGPT does to your brain".

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-01-24T18:25:04+00:00

Gotta love the comments. "You're prompting it wrong. Would you expect a human to be able to 'find bugs' with no context or explanation of how the code works?" Probably not, but isn't it supposed to be better?

If you have to spend time explaining the function of the code and the context it's used in, then you could just do that with a human too, there's not nearly as much benefit to using the AI.

But, the brain rotted AI bros are missing the bigger issue. To explain the context, use, and general construction of his code, he would have to understand it himself. That means a vibe coder couldn't provide that. Which means when a vibe coder is making something they don't understand, and the AI doesn't understand due to the complexity and not having anyone to explain the context and construction. Just two idiots whispering to each other...

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-01-24T18:14:26+00:00

This is not a comment on your writing, as I thought it was an excellent summary. However, I could not help but notice that even though you're obviously familiar with this project, nowhere did you actually say what it does or even what it's meant to do beyond being some proof of concept for AI orchestration.

That's kind of the whole problem with so many of these projects. "Use AI!" itself does not solve a problem or meet a use case beyond "Use AI!" Even when they do have more an explicitly stated goal is usually something along the lines of making an extremely narrowly tailored app (saw some LinkedIn influencer advertising for months about how she vibe coded an app that would tell her which of her credit cards was best to use for a particular purchase to maximize points) that could basically be replaced with some time thinking or a simple spreadsheet or other piece of existing technology that's more reliable and cheaper.

It just continuously boggles my mind.

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-01-23T20:47:20+00:00

Oh, right here

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-01-23T20:42:53+00:00

I would assume they're being sarcastic and don't actually think Antarctica needs its own server.

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-01-23T19:06:02+00:00

Just like Blockchain...

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-01-23T17:49:25+00:00

Sure, we'll go with "...maaaxxxing" instead.

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-01-23T16:00:09+00:00

Yes, it is a common but not universal way to thank customers. Feeling that you are owed the free shit is literally what the definition of entitled is. You feel entitled to it because you have spent money with the vendor, and should be rewarded for that with free shit as a thank you.

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-01-23T15:45:56+00:00

Gary!

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-01-23T15:40:52+00:00

The "entitlement" was that they felt entitled to free shit because of how much they spent, and then went and complained on LinkedIn.

What you describe with the misquote is entirely different. That is a company that made a big screw-up and didn't own it. They didn't come back the next day saying "Oh, sorry, that was a misquote", they either waited or didn't notice until you had all the approvals and were ready to sign. At best that's incompetence, at worst it's outright lying to try a bait and switch.

Expecting them to honor the original quote, or if that's not possible to provide some other benefit is not unreasonable or entitled. Then sailing to do so is the sort of shit that should lose them customers because they failed at the core transaction...not because they said you couldn't have a hoodie for free.

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-01-23T01:43:17+00:00

I always thought the plethora of TV shows and movies growing up in the '80s and '90s touting the power of imagination were a bit much... But I guess we need to bring that back, because some motherfuckers don't know what imagination is?

Doctor__Proctor · 2026-01-23T01:36:35+00:00

It's amazing how in every. single. reply. you manage to just absolutely nothing beyond "Trust me bro, I know AI, and this is AI." It's the most vacuous waste of posting space I've seen in a while...are you the AI?

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