“..it only took a weekend..” Suddenly, since December, a hashtag turns to a meme — meme-coding… vibe code an app, or a library over your weekend. the hack is back. ez enough for your ceo.
it seems folks are, again, trying to make something with less effort, offering proof of the improvement by publishing the cost to code. the gavel has fallen .. when the cost is zero, what comes next ?
do you take extra big gulps of air; why not, it’s free .
“… Tenzai found that applications built by five major AI coding agents — including Cursor, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Replit, and Devin — all contained significant vulnerabilities. The agents performed well on well-known vulnerability classes like SQL injection and cross-site scripting, but poorly on authorization logic and business logic..”
“– Silicon Valley is reporting for duty. No longer do we regard the military complex as destructive. It isn’t even complex. Just do it, quickly. Toss out the mistakes, or, perhaps leave it to the next round to cleanup. The Valley Brain is the new brain. The new MAN wears green. A willing warrior class of millionaires.
ooh, teach me how. let me play. when do I get my tattoo.
The initial cohort of this program will include the CTOs of Meta and Palantir, Andrew Bosworth and Shyam Sankar, respectively, as originally reported by The Wall Street Journal. It will also include OpenAI executives Kevin Weil, chief product officer, and Bob McGrew, chief research officer. This evening I will become an officer in US Army Reserve as part of Detachment 201, the Army’s Executive Innovation Corps,”
When the Nerd Reich marches into battle, it will be in a bunker behind a paywall. Say hello to the new fortunate son.
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Dr. Dobbs era, Hackers were coders without a license .. saw a need so built something to reveal a gap; to start the Pearl . Hackers also began with internal commitment . Dobb’s was a small mimeo publication in the days of smaller than small publications. A time of mail art. A time of flux among the commons. Intermixing of Snow’s culture.
Snow’s cultures
The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, the lecture argued that the breakdown of communication between the “two cultures” of modern society – the sciences and the humanities – was a major hindrance to solving the world’s problems.
Have we seen this before? Everyone a programmer. Problem with your business, with your life… do something fast, before your competitor does.
just in, Knuth paper re Claude successful solution
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