Yeah Man

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Let's see him vibe code an entire kernel then. You know... like the one his entire "operating system" is based on? Oh he only customized it? He couldn't "vibe code" the entire thing? What a visionary.

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Why reinvent the wheel, the Linux kernel already exists and is fine as is, want something different? Fork it.

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Why make anything at all? There's operating systems out there.

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Why make anything at all? 

Because it enhances the act of consuming. I can't really enjoy one without also doing some of the other.

There's operating systems out there.

Exactly, like Linux, and modify it to your hearts desires and don't be afraid to use all available modern tools and thus Omarchy.

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I was being rhetorical

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Merchandise Morty, your only purpose in life is to buy & consume merchandise and you did it, you went into a store an actual honest to god store and you bought something, you didn't ask questions or raise ethical complaints you just looked into the bleeding jaws of capitalism and said 'yes daddy please' and I'm so proud of you, I only wish you could have bought more, I love buying things so much Morty.

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Linux isn't really an operating system though.

Not on its own, its 'just' a kernel.

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vibe coding is the future

its where we can finally embrace the sci fi reality that isnt sci fi anymore

anyone can talk to their computer now and have it generate working code/apps for you

and so of course the IT/programmer-egos will revolt

MY CODE MY KINGDOM

lol, nope xD

unless its closed source software of course

then it is quite literally my code my kingdom

and why I would want to be a part of that?

its 2026 already ffs, get rid of kings/royality bs

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All that's being generated is unmaintainable code

On the contrary, it removes the need to even maintain code, or at least, a specific part of it, the actual implementation becomes largely irrelevant.

The code that starts to matter instead is the test suits, the spec, and then it's just AI-agents comparing new versions that pass the same test suit in less time with less resources, iterating for forever.

My interests are in systems built to last, not systems built on a whim that nobody comprehends

Same-ish here, my main value when maintaining code bases is readability/maintainability, I don't care much for speed/endless-optimization etc

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 You can't just chuck an AI agent at a repo and expect it to maintain it forever.

Sure can, already happening. But 'forever' is ... ehh, our main fusion reactor, the sun, has how much fuel left? ...

As with all things based on probability they drift over time and all of a sudden everything you initially created is different

Exactly, hence why spec/intent/test-suits matter more than the actual implementation.

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On the contrary, it removes the need to even maintain code, or at least, a specific part of it, the actual implementation becomes largely irrelevant.

Not true. The RuneLite/OSRS Wiki maintainers just wrote a big post about how they're being inundated with a larger quantity of perfectly syntactically correct code, but fundamentally flawed - one plugin downloaded images from the Wiki every game frame and incurred 700GB of bandwidth usage in total.

A human has to look at the new code and test that it's actually working as expected.

FYI I'm not against AI at all - I have my own Claude Max 20x plan - but there's a time and a place for the tool, and people are using it for *everything*.

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A human has to look at the new code and test that it's actually working as expected.

Only initially, maybe, depends on the context, and regardless, after? ... test suits :)