“Path of least resistance” thinking kills people. Electricity takes ALL paths available to it, inversely proportional to their resistance.

Normies: “Stolen vehicle slow-down!? YES, please! It’s not like I could steal my own vehicle!”

hehe… you TOO can become a partner! We’re having a special! Anyone willing to pay for partnership access coincidentally gets an unrelated trove of personal data!

“It’s a UNIX system…”

Nah, just sort by date instead of topology, or vice versa.

git gud, son

I think the skeleton needs a top-hat before we can caption this.

For some reason, that doesn’t look like a GPT-generated graph, which means… sadly… that someone had to make that thing… and somebody had to approve it.

Frequencies.

Well, I do have MBSE on the brain, but the idea here is more like a low-code/no-code environment with an ABSOLUTELY ENORMOUS “pit of success”… so large that even GenAI can reliably fall into it. Numbered tabs, you go left to right answering questions and fiddling with with prompts, paint-by-numbers for working software.

I imagine that it is theoretically possible to successfully vibe-code, but probably not with a conventional project layout nor would it look much like traditional programming. Something like your interaction primarily being a “requirements list”, which gets translated into interfaces and heavy requirements tests against those interfaces, and each implementation file being disposable (regenerated) & super-self-contained, and only being able to “save” (or commit) implementations that pass the tests.

…and if you are building a webapp, it would not be able to touch the API layer except through operational transforms (which trigger new [major] version numbers]. Sorta like MCP.

Said another way, if we could make it more like a “ratchet” incrementing, and less like an out-of-control aircraft… then maybe?!?

“Let’s see how close I can get the lasers to my eyes without going blind…”

I thought they already gutted much of AOSP. Like removing the dialer or contacts and stuff.

Herman the worm

That thumbnail image reminds me of hovercat: https://youtu.be/p1u-R4RVL70

IIRC, it opens a gui modal asking if you want to give the terminal permission to read the folder. Not quite the same, but still weird and jarring.

If that’s half of it, then a “full human” could be defined by an 80mb file?

Puddleglum

Imagine holding a null in your hand… hopefully they sent you only one, and not zero nulls, or worse… -1… and don’t even get be started on imaginary nulls.

Unit tests pass.