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goddamn is this a breath of fresh air after Allred 2024
Ai boosters are misinformation peddlers who have been lying about this since 2023 when they lied and said gpt 4 tricked a Taskrabbit into solving a captcha (it didn’t do this btw). These lies have enriched other liars and killed people and they are responsible
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What’s also great is reading the dialogue with Claude where it stops and says “I need to stop and be honest with you about something important” and reveals it deleted every single photo. Software built for dunces
Embarrassing to see adults talk to robots in a public forum. That'd be like if your friend asked a mailbox for directions once. You'd roast him for decades for that shit. Every time the concept of navigating space came up you'd hit him with "Why don't you ask the mailbox?"
there's a million old TVs out there, some are crap & others are great, a filter is very different to seeing it on a real TV, & if your pixelart isn't made with'em in mind, you'll reap the detriments & not the benefits. @deeliteyears.bsky.social put a pixel-art I made on her CRT & it looked amazing!
(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star)
Does this look like a big laser to anyone else
Every Single Vibe Coding Company Is A Scam Let’s be really blunt: you cannot, as a person who does not know how to code, pick up any vibe coding service and build software that functions in a secure way. Every single company selling vibe coding services is lying. In a just regulatory environment, Replit, Lovable and any other company that sells services that suggest that you can use LLMs to write software with no knowledge of coding would be brutally and relentlessly sued by the US government and shut down for good. These companies are built on the back of Large Language Models, probabilistic machine learning that guesses what you want it to do, with hallucinations — which in this case means “doing the wrong thing or lying and saying it did something when it didn’t — increasing the more compute they use. Practically-speaking, this means that nobody who can’t read or write code can actually use these tools to make “real” software, meaning that anybody using them is being conned. Instead, we’re left with stinking piles of manure that con customers on the regular.
Replit - $12.5m Revenue In September 2025 ($150m ARR), Agent 3 Launch Disastrous, Ripping Off Users With Impossible-To-Gauge Costs, Repugnant Company Replit has gone on a bit of a journey — from cloud-based IDE beloved by high school computer science educators, as Charlie Meyer told me last week on the Better Offline podcast, to money-incinerating stalwart of the vibe coding era. In September, it closed a $250m round, giving it a $3bn valuation. Fortunately, Replit had the common sense to cash the checks before its Agent 3 launch, which was widely panned by the faux-coders who actually use it. Described by Replit as “a breakthrough in autonomous software development,” and something that “feels like a real developer,” it has largely failed to win the hearts and minds of its users, who complained of it breaking their apps, taking inordinate amounts of time to do simple tasks, and being extremely expensive. The Register had a great article on this debacle, which ended with Replit adding the ability to control how much Agent 3 would run rampant with your codebase. I also want to be clear that I believe Replit is one of the ugliest startups I’ve seen in history. Its Subreddit is full of people furious with the speed and cost of Agent 3 and ongoing debates about whether it’s good or bad that Replit will randomly burn several dollars fucking up your app. One post, titled “HOW DOES IT GET MORE EXPENSIVE EVERY SINGLE DAY,” led to several people recommending the user not use Replit’s Agent to build their app. By the way, the reason all of this is happening is that coding models are not consistent at writing code, nor can they be relied upon to build functional, reliable and secure software. Worse still, because these are probabilistic models, each time you ask these models to do anything is yet another roll of the dice to see whether it will spit out what you want, each time costing you several god damn dollars.
Lovable - “Predicted” would hit $1 billion ARR ($83m a month) by August 2026, Actually at $100 Million ARR ($8.3m a month) As Of July 2025, Unclear How Much Actual Money It Makes Lovable is yet another vibe-coding company that claims to “build software products, using only a chat interface”: While this is technically something that it does, I believe this statement is horrifyingly misleading. Lovable’s Reddit is full of stories of users wasting hundreds of dollars, fighting to get it to do anything consistently, or simply running out of credits weeks before they refresh. As I’ve said: every vibe coding company is a scam. Anyway, earlier this week, Lovable CEO Anton Osika said the company he founded was nearing eight million users, with “100,000 new products built on Lovable every single day” — a line that stretches the definition of the word “product” in ways I didn’t previously think possible. It raised $200m in July of this year at a $1.8bn valuation — just eight months after it launched — and the company is rumoured to be planning another raise at a $5bn valuation. Impressive. Less impressive, however, is its revenue, with the company having only hit the $100m ARR mark in June -- which, I remind you, works out to $8.3m-a-month.
Every single vibe coding company is a scam, and both Replit and Lovable are evil. It's a blatant lie that you can use an LLM to build secure, functional software without coding knowledge. In a functioning regulatory environment Lovable and Replit would be illegal.
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All the pundits who were outraged at kids missing school in the early days of the COVID pandemic are welcome to speak up ANY TIME NOW
DHS version
White House version
The White House posted an edited photo of the activist involved in the Minneapolis church protest, made to look like she was crying.
sounds good! 👍
It's just occurred to me that the deep freudian reason for me typing all this crap for the one or two people who will actually hack the game and notice this is to vent my frustration at never being asked to do one of those daft writeups for a magazine about 'my work in progress'!
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The most-discussed product here is an LG robot that can "fold laundry" but can't actually do it and takes 90 seconds to fail at the task. This product is not being released, and LG has been explicit that's the case. It is entirely built to mislead people. Every company doing this fucking sucks.
This might sound harsh, and judgmental, but if video is your preferred way of getting information about a topic, you’re a fucking moron
screenshot of a post on facebook from Alex Lamoreaux, depicting two versions of the "same" photograph of a bobcat in front of a pine plantation, one labeled original game cam photo, one labeling AI processed the markings have been altered on the AI photo, and the head changed and resized text says: Oh! A neat goose hybrid posted to ‘What’s this Bird?’ but when you zoom in on the photos the bill details have been too manipulated by AI photo editing to be accurately assessed for which species may be involved. Scroll on… A cool-looking Red-tailed Hawk that someone is wondering which subspecies it might be - right up my alley! But when you zoom in on the photos literally every feather group has been so heavily manipulated and altered by AI editing that it’s impossible to determine subspecies because the photo is essentially fake now; just a mashup of whatever AI thinks parts of a Red-tail should look like. Scroll on… WOW! That’s a remarkable trail cam photo of a Bobcat! It almost looks like a painting!… but the head looks oddly small…. hmmmm. After some prodding the original photo is produced and sure enough it had been so heavily altered by AI ‘post processing’ that the photo posted was essentially a digital mock-up with totally different proportions and fur markings. No longer the photo off the trail cam; it may as well have just been ‘created’ by AI from scratch. This stuff is killing me. My days on social media are becoming very limited. We can’t even trust simple, everyday photos of animals to be real. The wildlife community needs to quit editing with AI, and we need to start calling out photographers that are using it. Our reality is being destroyed all around us.
this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
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Ope, there it is! You beat me to it and yes that’s the one
I wanna say that’s from that girls fighting game where all the names are changed. Has that slamming cover of the psycho soldier theme
Mariya Delano @mariyadelano@hachyderm.io I've been testing a theory: many people who are high on #Al and #LLMs are just new to automation and don't realize you can automate processes with simple programming, if/then conditions, and API calls with zero Al involved. So far it's been working! Whenever I've been asked to make an Al flow or find a way to implement Al in our work with a client, l've returned back with an automation flow that uses 0 Al. Things like "when a new document is added here, add a link to it in this spreadsheet and then create a task in our project management software assigned to X with label Y" And the people who were frothing at the mouth at how I must change my mind on Al have (so far) all responded with resounding enthusiasm and excitement.
It’s not just that people don’t know there are simpler ways to do things. It’s that they’re being TOLD to integrate Ai into everything. I’m reminded, again, of the radium craze. Radium is not magic and nor is Ai. Both are, unfortunately, harmful.
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"You voted for this!" FAFOism is a powerful force. Easy to get swept away in it. But the fact is that guys like this were lied to, and your anger is better spent on the liars than the lied to. We can welcome guys like this in. We need to build a better country, and we can't do it without them.
KIRO 7 ran an article and two TV pieces on the theft of a box truck full of arcade PCBs, artwork, and machines from my workplace yesterday. If anyone in the Seattle area sees someone offloading a ton of CPS2/NAOMI/Neo Geo PCBs, stuff of that nature, please reach out.
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I did a pretty thorough port of Lyle in Cube Sector, if that is of interest.
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Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶
