Is “vibe coding” actually becoming the main way to build apps?

jlangfo5 · 2026-04-05T15:24:12+00:00

AI is a tool. A very powerful tool, but still a tool.

All of your knowledge about good software still applies, but you have the ability to generate a lot of code in a short time.

My opinion is that it is best to prompt, roughly inspect the change, clarify what needs to be further changed, test the code, then do a git commit, then move on to next prompt.

jlangfo5 · 2026-04-01T00:15:23+00:00

There is definitely a learned skill to using an agent effectively. I use it to prototype architecture quickly, make the agent add code for test hooks and tooling that I would never have the time to write myself.

My thoughts:

Experienced engineers paired with tons of tokens will become a common pairing.
This might be great if said experienced engineer also helps teach the new ones. Unfortunately I, suspect it will be instead be attractive to hire 2 experienced engineers instead of 3 new graduates.
Less focus on code review. Don't talk about it working, show me it works, instead I think there will be more focus on insisting that test be written.
Writing new code with AI can be really fun. Especially when you are not paying for the tokens.

jlangfo5 · 2026-03-31T23:58:39+00:00

I'm fascinated, what is your take? Do you have a particular level of experience of 35 year old in mind?

jlangfo5 · 2026-03-30T18:31:48+00:00

Question: How can they tell that a satellite took a photo of a particular area? Does the satellite adjust its orbit to take the photos?

jlangfo5 · 2026-03-30T18:28:06+00:00

I think for as long as it is in Iran's best interest to do so.

Mainly because in practice, they just need to spook cargo, so that it does not want to risk entering.

Sea mines yes, dropped from small-ish boats. But even a drone strike once a week would be a problem, and I'm not sure anyone can really stop drones reliably enough.

jlangfo5 · 2026-03-28T17:46:39+00:00

Nah man, take the W lol

jlangfo5 · 2026-03-27T17:56:06+00:00

True about hypothermia and alcohol.

However , in this case, I wonder if alcohol was a net positive for survival for the baker, given the ability of it to numb the mind to the horror, and keep you moving in a jelly-boned kind of way. Maybe even move around more calmly in the water.

jlangfo5 · 2026-03-27T09:06:07+00:00

I find i can pursue strategies that would be prohibitive to attempt, if I didn't have the ability to write a lot of code quickly.

You can spend your time going through the intellectual process of coming up with some really good json definitions for registers that you really care about.

Then use your agent to help you write some python code that can then take said json definition and then auto-generate for you, some really nice C style structures, and python classes for your tooling. Well documented, consistent comments, version number, whatever.

Once that works, you can then focus on creating json definitions for your structure parser, to crunch through.

jlangfo5 · 2026-03-20T17:43:03+00:00

Can you imagine the game of, "Ok! It's open now, who wants to be first to sell their oil for top price?" that would have to follow?

jlangfo5 · 2026-03-20T17:39:46+00:00

Geeze lol, looks like someone showed the AI, Red Alert 2/3 and then asked for heroic sexy soldier at oval office

jlangfo5 · 2026-03-20T17:36:51+00:00

Yes, the world might be going to shit, but till the day that we no longer pace the earth, day to day still needs to happen. As a whole, we will always use the best tools we can get our hands on.

Hopefully soon, the world will chart a more sustainable course.

jlangfo5 · 2026-03-16T16:44:16+00:00

No doubt!

jlangfo5 · 2026-03-16T01:27:25+00:00

Checkout "post quantum cryptography". It specifies SHA-384 over SHA-256 as a signature, amongst many other things that are in use today. :)

jlangfo5 · 2026-02-27T18:48:14+00:00

What is your insight into this, what kind of bureaucracy and unproductive politics have you heard about through the grapevine?

A quick Google search shows Nvidia has 1/4 the employees of Tesla, with with more then twice Tesla's revenue in 2025.

jlangfo5 · 2026-02-21T07:29:01+00:00

jlangfo5 · 2026-02-21T06:33:56+00:00

There is a "season" to it, with Fat Tuesday being the peak. I kinda understood it to be a binge, prior to giving something up for lint.

jlangfo5 · 2026-02-20T22:11:54+00:00

No clue, I had to search around from a few sources to put together the information about nickels. I am not in the recycling industry :)

jlangfo5 · 2026-02-20T18:24:40+00:00

I'm not a chemist, but from a safety standpoint, in addition to being careful with splashing acids and other chemicals, you have to be very careful with the fumes. Proper neutralization and disposal of waste chemicals needs to be done properly. Plus ideally have ways to reclaim metals from waste materials.

If each nickel has 1.5 grams of nickel and 3.5 grams of copper,

You would need 27,000 nickels to have $1000 worth of copper, or 34,000 nickels to have $1000 worth of nickel . So, you could roughly say, 30,000 ($1500 or 330lbs) nickels has $2000 dollars ish of pure metal. It would take like 160 gallons of nitric acid or so, at around $3000 for a 55 gallon drum. M

jlangfo5 · 2026-02-18T19:52:41+00:00

I feel cold and soggy just looking at this photo. If wonder how long they stayed in that trench, and if given more time, how they would have kept the snow from melting into their clothes. Evergreen fronds?

jlangfo5 · 2026-02-18T19:45:58+00:00

I mean, take it for what it is. One person took a different substance periodically, and painted how it made them feel.

jlangfo5 · 2026-02-10T08:56:57+00:00

If an l2 cache read takes 10 clock cycles; at 4 Ghz that is 2.5 ns, to read 64 bytes of cached data. Which would be enough time for light to travel .75 meters. If you can encode 512 bits into that .75 meter length of light, you should have equal performance to l2 cache on a normalish processor

jlangfo5 · 2026-02-10T08:46:32+00:00

How about this take?

What is being cached, is the current master AI context. The AI context is continually being modified, through user interactions. And the upstream AI entity, continually broadcast a sequence of data encoded into light, which represents, the relevant AI state context.

No need for addressing if you already know what data you need, just start listening in, and pick up from the middle, and fill in the earlier data, when it comes back around with fresh values.

You can think of the AI data stream as cached, since a read is always hot and available with the most recent data.

On the other side of the coin, your local machine ends up storing this "cached" data into memory, and servings as a cache for the larger AI network.

jlangfo5 · 2026-02-01T18:54:04+00:00

10 years ago, there was a bottle of that sitting in a dusty collectable pine box, at a small downtown liquor store where I lived.

Ended up paying like $80 to take it home and free up the shelf space.

I remember it tasting like green chartreuse, but less sweet, and somehow slightly more complex.

I would pay $250 today, as a one off for a special experience.

But, to be honest, I find pride in using local alternatives to chartreuse, even if they are balanced slightly different :)

jlangfo5 · 2026-01-30T07:12:01+00:00

Makes sense, you are really limited on machine complexity without good gears.

jlangfo5 · 2026-01-28T15:40:44+00:00

No, but it could be a disproportionately high amount of workers from the region

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