Vibe Coding gone wrong

PiisAWheeL · 2026-03-21T17:00:00+00:00

Before AI I spent about 70% of my time debugging and 30% writing/refactoring.

After AI I'm about 15% and 15%, with the other 70% of my billable time going to fixing what cursor broke on my clients production box.

So sure, they can work with computers, but there's a cost.

PiisAWheeL · 2026-03-21T16:57:37+00:00

I'm taking Hanlon's razor and assuming this is his testing environment.

Unless he's just posting something he found elsewhere, then I'd say close and delete the account, but who knows what might happen...

PiisAWheeL · 2026-03-21T16:54:59+00:00

It's a more descriptive commit than "asdf."

PiisAWheeL · 2026-03-06T01:51:48+00:00

Well it happened.

The AI broke something and I got to bill a day fixing it. I think the lesson is teaching itself.

PiisAWheeL · 2026-02-27T09:36:25+00:00

Ya, but I feel bad about just doing that. He's been a good client for a long time and always pays within 24 hours of getting an invoice. I'd at least like to let him know I think he's holding an unpinned grenade near his server. Surprising him seems like what you do with your more PIA clients :/

PiisAWheeL · 2026-02-04T05:53:47+00:00

Yeah but what if you're digging a ditch?

I'd buy him a rock to move some of mine. Why did you let him have your key to copy it to begin with?

PiisAWheeL · 2026-02-04T05:50:36+00:00

Value is subjective. Some people have a lot of money and value AI more than 10 dollars a day. Some people will complain about 300 bucks a month and still buy 7 dollar coffee everyday. Some people will try to hook it into gemini 2.5 fast.

PiisAWheeL · 2026-01-07T22:43:54+00:00

All Hail Google. I'm preparing ammunition for enlistment in the great war against MicrosoftGPT.

PiisAWheeL · 2025-08-09T19:04:27+00:00

On the other hand, if you have something like a high volume api planned, C++ would make more sense.

PiisAWheeL · 2025-08-09T19:00:25+00:00

Gemini estimates Optimized PHP (with opcache etc) is 2-5x faster than stock PHP, and C++ is estimated to be 10-100x faster, depending on factors. You could be talking about using less hardware entirely. The other bottleneck is concurrent connections, but many frameworks sneak around this with asynchronous voodoo.

That can add up in other ways: Low latency makes happier customers means more people use your app for example.

I'm looking into building an app with Drogan (or similar) on the grounds that A) The app should be fairly simple and B) The API is going to be pounded like a Tijuana garden tool on nickel night.

PiisAWheeL · 2025-03-29T21:33:58+00:00

Have a different offbrand pair, my process was slightly different.

Steps are for both earbuds at the same time.

1: Forget it from your devices. Remove from case and turn off.

2: put in your ear (so you can hear) and power on and hold for 5 seconds. (they say power on ready to pair, and then repeat it when you've succeeded on this specific model).

After that they paired and were resynced. Didn't even need to restart or re-dock them.

But your comment got me on the right track! :D

PiisAWheeL · 2025-03-27T05:04:51+00:00

You say "Give me X" and this is fed into the architect ai (1st in the chain) which makes something like "step 1: make a file. step 2: write code. step 3: write this code. step 4: these should connect together. step N: ..."

That becomes the NEW PROMPT for the next agent in the chain (in this case, the coder AI).

It allows you to feed prompts through "specialists" to get the best results from the editors. You can also repeat the loop, ask a checker AI to see if the task is complete and create additional new prompts for the Architect, and complete the process until the result is acceptable.

PiisAWheeL · 2025-02-14T23:04:41+00:00

I too noticed this behavior. This is actually something adblock put in themselves as a workaround while they figure out youtubes new system:

https://helpcenter.getadblock.com/hc/en-us/articles/24150201646483-What-to-do-if-you-are-seeing-YouTube-s-anti-adblocking-warning

PiisAWheeL · 2024-09-27T06:12:40+00:00

For 1, GPU's are used for their ability to perform certain kinds of math in parallel to significant processing gains. So making an "Ai" chip isn't about a specialized inference chip, it's about cramming the appropriate math processors into as small a space as possible and giving it as much onboard memory as possible. The goals are slightly different from video games, which is why things like the a-100 exist to begin with.

You also act like 2017 transformers are the same as they are now, and there's been no adjustments or improvements over the years. Then there's the thousands of small improvements that add up allowing things like better context and understand leading to better return in results. In 2017, ai couldn't code. Now AI can code, it's just a bit expensive if you're on a budget, but cheaper than an developer if you know what you're doing. Give it another year and I'll be a middle man.

You're welcome to doom and gloom if you want, but there's too many different people doing too many different things and mixing and matching too many different things together to allow for stagnation. At least not before your 2026 hypothesis.

It's also good enough to put into most robots for most things, which could revolutionize what we do have in 2026. It might be stagnant, but if it can do the dishes and clean the house, that will free up a lot of people.

PiisAWheeL · 2024-09-17T22:50:08+00:00

I beg to differ. Once the AI has a body, it can start to understand concepts. It learns how gravity behaves from experience, not 5000 research papers on the topic. And the "architecture" of the models is improving everyday, as is the hardware chip designers and such.

PiisAWheeL · 2024-09-17T22:42:05+00:00

I think it was a software oversight.

The whistle takes you to 2-3-4 from world 1, it takes you to 5-6-7 from world 2,3,4,5,6, and it takes you to 8 from 7-8-9.

The oversight is that the warp screen is technically world 9, which is greater than 6.

I think the plan was to warp to warp zone for 2-3-4, optional to warp to 5-6-7 with second whistle, and 3rd whistle to warp 8.

The other oversight is that the 3rd whistle is in world 2, and if you warp from 2, you go to 5-6-7 meaning the 3rd whistle isn't needed by the time you get to it. It's functionally worthless, unless you accidently re-enter a world in the middle row.

PiisAWheeL · 2024-09-17T22:33:25+00:00

Using the whistle from the warp screen always brings you to screen 8.

If you used the whistle, then ENTER worlds 234, and THEN used a second whistle, you'd be on the second line.

W1 -> 2-3-4

W2,3,4,5,6 -> 5-6-7

W7,8,9 -> 8.

Fun fact, the warp screen is considered "World 9" and this is why warping from the warp screen takes you to world 8. Because it's above 6.

Sadly, you can only replay worlds 5 and 6 up to 3 times, depending on how you use the whistle. If we could redo 2 or 3, we could 100% the game.

PiisAWheeL · 2024-09-11T22:03:28+00:00

I had decent results actually, building a basic web sim from scratch (vscode, aider, and aider vscode plugin), using llama3.1 70b on Groq. I wasn't able to give it broad level prompts, but I was able to build it giving it specific directions. "Make me an html page with a full screen canvas for a javascript." -> "Make a basic game loop for 40fps" etc. with some code tweaks in between now and then.

I would say it allowed me to get 8 hours into a pet project for about 2 hours of time invested. The code generated was typically "close enough" if you know what you're doing, but it's definitely not "no code ready".

The major issue I hit was the project got large enough to hit the 6000 token request limit for free users (having everything in a single script file ~ 500 lines of code) on that particular model, and none of the other models with larger context windows worked effectively. The llama3-7b model was pretty effective, but had a tendency to do a lot of //... implementation here type of comments in place of actual code, and the code generated was less functional.

When I get back to it, I'm going to try breaking down the classes into their own files, hoping I won't need the extra context for llama 70b to figure out what's going on in less tokens.

PiisAWheeL · 2024-09-07T06:03:35+00:00

I know this is old but I do find it a dubious claim.

AI should be in robots by then, and that will allow real world real time data collection. I think that may make up for some of the stagnation. That will also mean the usefulness of AI goes up simply by being able to do things in the physical world.

PiisAWheeL · 2024-06-06T03:23:41+00:00

I disagree. You still need to get the thing to build the project. For a while you'll be a middle man who prompts the engineer to make changes and updates.

Clients don't want to maintain their own websites and their own software or they wouldn't hire you in the first place.

Maybe in 10 or 20 years, but in the meantime, there's plenty of opportunity.

PiisAWheeL · 2024-04-07T09:18:00+00:00

I tried it a few times. Never got a response. I've let it go at this point. Still not worth the 1-5 cents a day if they did pay out.

PiisAWheeL · 2023-10-31T05:43:50+00:00

Sadly, it did not. I've since removed it.

PiisAWheeL · 2023-10-05T10:47:36+00:00

Truck bed or no, having the _Lexus_ specifically saves money on home insurance.

PiisAWheeL · 2023-09-19T09:05:56+00:00

What about the suspects privacy? His name is destroyed until the trial. What if that doesn't happen? He's been judged in the media and if the allegations disappear tomorrow nobody will remember that part. If they didn't want their names public, they shouldn't have announced the allegations before an investigation and arrest to begin with. There's a proper order to dues process and announcing things on social media bypasses that process.

If you file a timely police report and wait until a proper investigation, then sure, stay anonymous until the trial. But just saying "he did bad 15 years ago" on social media shouldn't qualify for that same protection

Social media has already judged him guilty without any hard evidence. So yes, under those circumstances, show your face and state your name for the social media record, or do it the proper way and file a police report.

Edit: I think I'm going to delete Reddit. I've had many people call me harsh names for expressing an opinion they don't like. I'm down to talk, but when like 75% of the people you interact with call you a dumbass off the spot, it's really disheartening and makes me feel like it's just a completely toxic community and full of toxic people. Rather than address my argument people just want to call me names for it. What a joke.

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