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What do you call the law that you violate when you vibe code an entire website for "List of 'laws' of software engineering" instead of just creating a Wikipedia page for it

"Creating a Wikipedia page" is a weird suggestion. In 2026, it's actually not possible to create a Wikipedia page unless you're already a deep expert in Wikipedia culture.

(Wikipedia nerds often say "No, anyone can create a page as long as they follow the 137 guidelines!" This is a prank- Wikipedia admins will delete your article no matter how many guidelines it follows)


Even some 15y ago it was impossible to add web links to communities, even though other web links to similar communities were already in the web links section, because some people weaponized wiki as a moat.

Slop’s Law

If it can be slopped, it will be slopped.


Sturgeon's Law (2026): 99% of everything is crap or slop

My company has four (4) vibe-coded dashboards to monitor AI tool usage.

We have made no revenue, let alone profit from any AI feature. However, some curiously under qualified people have been hired into new “AI” themed roles with seven or eight figure comp, and we seem to be preparing for major layoffs in the next 30-60 days. Presumably those new roles will be safe.


I switched from Windows to Linux because I got a Steam Deck, which caused me to realize that the only games in my library that don't also run flawlessly on Linux are the ones that have invasive anticheat that I'm really not comfortable installing.

Having to enable TPM or device integrity or whatever it is on my own computer just to run my own games is just too much power to hand to some garbage corporation that shits on its users. Rubbed me so far the wrong that way that I gave it up. The fact that Win 11 is no longer just an easy and hands-off solution that "just works" but is bloated with dark patterns and "AI" bullshit certainly helped cement the decision.


Have a Linux gaming machine with bazzite. Fantastic! So far any game I care about works and with AMD drivers it’s even stable..

you mean the $5 billion they've generated off of the $73 billion they've raised?


yes, because who ever heard of an AI leaking passwords or API keys into source code


if an idea can't be vibecoded in under 10 minutes, it's not worth pursuing. Checks out


Claude Code asked me for blanket permission to ‘rm:*’ and “security find-generic-password” within the same hour or so last week. When I’m ready to quit my job I’ll just let it go hog wild and see if it can get to my next stock vest without getting me fired


This isn’t how deep learning works. You can’t just “adjust weights” for some random user/product.

I feel like even otherwise intelligent people these days think these chatbots are Westworld-like programmable AIs and not pieces of shit that barely run or work. There is no tech monolith that’s getting advanced and gaining new capabilities. There are some very smart people who have switched from building ad recommenders or autonomous vehicles to building KV caches and reinforcement learning systems, and then in a different department there are the same people who built ads systems at whatever big tech company that will build the same shit at OAI etc.


You don't need to adjust the weights. Just have it query a vector database of current ad campaigns to find a PROMPT.md to inject when the context is relevant. e.g. user is talking about camping -> lookup ad campaign documents relevant to camping (e.g. with embeddings) -> inject prompt about the campaign. This is all basically obvious if you've been using SKILL.md for agents at work.


Isn't that literally what post-training/fine-tuning does?


It means you can't crank up the knob on "burger king recommendations" for instance.


I think I read it's more "hillbilly" English that sounds like Shakespeare? Like coal mining towns where words like "deer" and "bear" are two syllables. Probably a combination of that and eastern seaboard.

I only learned recently that the vowel shift and non-rhotic R's in Britain happened after the colonization of America. Americans still talk "normally" whereas the English got weird. Also why Irish accents sound closer to American than British I think. Linguistics is cool


Also why the non-rhotic American accents are all by the East Coast, they were influenced by the non-rhotic British visitors while the inland areas were spared.


I love this podcast, I've listened to it all the way through probably ten times.

That acoustic guitar riff followed by "Hello, and welcome to the History of Rome" is how I'll know I'm dead and I've arrived at the gates of heaven


Acoustic picking 18 from garage band....


Username checks out.


Oh my God, are you serious? I don't know how to feel about this


Yeah he says so in a Q&A episode.


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