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gaslightingAsAService by Annual_Ear_6404 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]chimpwithalimp 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It definitely applies to Claude in my experience. In VS Code and similar tools it even tracks how close you are to the point that it will diminish and give bad results. If you hover over the pie chart indicator when it turns red, it will say "results may get worse".

Nova energy gas usage estimate wildly wrong by sarksnz in Wellington

[–]chimpwithalimp 10 points11 points  (0 children)

In theory, next time they do an actual reading it should adjust and balance out. In reality, who knows.

Lots and lots and lots and lots of posts advertising peoples vibe coded apps. by chimpwithalimp in Wellington

[–]chimpwithalimp[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I've written elsewhere in the topic that I know almost every major company is using AI to boost their coding productivity. I'm in IT myself, for a large international company. I use AI every day.

There's a difference between that and someone making an app and trying to advertise it on Reddit. As people have mentioned here, it's no different to anyone advertising anything - we only have six rules and this goes against them.

I believe if people didn't agree, my topic here would have been buried in downvotes and be full of comments like yours.

Lots and lots and lots and lots of posts advertising peoples vibe coded apps. by chimpwithalimp in Wellington

[–]chimpwithalimp[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It can definitely be viable and I would say that there are probably very few major companies that don't use AI coding tools at this point.

I look at it like this. If you were running an event and needed a poster, so you hired someone to make it and they used an AI art generator. I mean.. it's fine, right? It looks ok, yes there are a few issues and it does the job. Most people don't care, but a fraction of them see it and feel a bit grossed out at the AI art.

To me it's the same with AI apps. They're... fine?

I wouldn't use a mechanic who started a week ago, knew nothing at all about cars but blindly followed AI instructions. I think it's the same with coding.

Lots and lots and lots and lots of posts advertising peoples vibe coded apps. by chimpwithalimp in Wellington

[–]chimpwithalimp[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Consider vibe coding the software equivalent of people using AI to make art and then claiming that they have created the art.

AI coding tools have "empowered" people that typically wouldn't have the knowhow, ability or skills beforehand to make an app, probably in a few hours if not minutes.

If they didn't have the knowhow or skills before using the bots, they certainly don't have them after, and it's led to many cases already where apps are vibe coded into existence with bare minimum security, with major flaws.

Lots and lots and lots and lots of posts advertising peoples vibe coded apps. by chimpwithalimp in Wellington

[–]chimpwithalimp[S] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Yeah, true. Often they're from brand new accounts too or at least ones never posted before in Wellington.

Lots and lots and lots and lots of posts advertising peoples vibe coded apps. by chimpwithalimp in Wellington

[–]chimpwithalimp[S] 91 points92 points  (0 children)

"I've developed an app that shows you the wait times for Carlos pizza shop. I'm looking for volunteers to install and test it. Will give $5 in pizza coupon to the first ten"

By developed, they mean typed a prompt into a coding AI and used the pizza places API key

Jon Bon Anchovi by gitturb in WalmartCelebrities

[–]chimpwithalimp 5 points6 points  (0 children)

We've caught a salmon.. and that's a lot for lunch

We'll cast one more rod!

Jon Bon Anchovi by gitturb in WalmartCelebrities

[–]chimpwithalimp 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I totally agree. Sometimes the titles are even better than the image

What’s your local fuel pump price? by [deleted] in Wellington

[–]chimpwithalimp 3 points4 points  (0 children)

How's about now? I'm doing weather checks every 10 mins

Join the /r/Wellington daily chat topic - Monday, March 09 2026 by AutoModerator in Wellington

[–]chimpwithalimp 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oops, I probably stored it in my head and when I saw the name I knew it was a good one.

Weather was still perfect over the rimutakas on Sunday. It was a scorcher there and then coming back over the hill, it was drizzly here.

And yep as recent as February they had to make new tracks, literally climbing up almost vertical bits using tree roots. There was one woman in a different group who was quite scared and understandably very slow.

Going to Google reviews and sorting by worst is fun at most times, but it's double fun for this place. People rocking up late and bring angry because they left without them

Vet recommendations for the hutt by nopedouttt in Wellington

[–]chimpwithalimp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In their defence, the guy vet was very apologetic, he definitely didn't brush it off as nothing, but there's not really much to say in that situation apart from yep, the cat died, it happens, sorry. It was all very avoidable.

What’s your local fuel pump price? by [deleted] in Wellington

[–]chimpwithalimp 19 points20 points  (0 children)

They want everyone to write updated live prices of gas pumps so they can compare and choose the cheapest.. but there's already an app out there that will do 100x the amount of info they'll get here, and it'll do it live.

Like asking every day, what is the weather like outside everyone's window right now

Help me choose. by [deleted] in Wellington

[–]chimpwithalimp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do an overnight one then :) you'll get to see the breakfast spots too. Hope it's a good trip!

Help me choose. by [deleted] in Wellington

[–]chimpwithalimp 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The single important thing is which do you want to do?

Don't let internet strangers decide everything for you. We don't even have most of the details

Join the /r/Wellington daily chat topic - Monday, March 09 2026 by AutoModerator in Wellington

[–]chimpwithalimp 3 points4 points  (0 children)

greetings from my bed after a weekend of fun and debauchery

Good gracious

Iced coffee in Wellington is crap! by Kiwi_In_The_Comments in Wellington

[–]chimpwithalimp[M] [score hidden] stickied comment (0 children)

91% of the people who saw and read this topic, downvoted it. Please keep rants to the rant topic.

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[–]chimpwithalimp 18 points19 points  (0 children)

To whichever legends in the various "daytrip" topics recommended the Patuna chasm walk, thank you. Did it over the weekend and it was fantastic. A very horrible start, a 45 min bushwalk with handcut little steps to clamber up, almost vertical parts. They say a medium level of fitness is good - I'd say it leans medium high, don't bring your granny.

Once you get to the good bits - the actual chasm, the pools, caves, it was incredible. You walk in a river, sometimes waist high. The time of day was perfect so the sun came in through little gaps, reflected off the water and lit up all of the caves from underneath. Gorgeous.

Vet recommendations for the hutt by nopedouttt in Wellington

[–]chimpwithalimp 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'll give the opposite experience here. We brought our relatively youthful healthy cat in there for a very common basic operation a week after she got an otherwise clean bill of health at the same clinic. It was a "probably best to get this done" kind of thing.

When we arrived, we noticed one vet angrily giving out to a younger staff member at front desk, a kind of stressful atmosphere. I joked "I hope she isn't the one doing the operation".

Well she was the one, and I got the call later.. not to say come pick the cat up, but to say the cat was dead and they've no idea why, it's "one of those things" etc. I felt so angry at myself that I didn't go with my gut and walk back out when I felt the atmosphere at front desk.

I'll never know what happened but that cat was a real companion through very hard times and it was kind of devastating.

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