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Instead of using a stock photo of slots and the original photo of Rick Rubin you had the same images generated by AI. What the fuck. Are people seriously asking AI for images they could just search for?
The whole goddamn image is genAI.
A table of comparisons generated by genAI words using a genAI text to image text model topped by two AI generated images.
Slop all the way down.
Search results now show AI-generated images as well lol, I just grabbed one random image from there. About Rick Rubin, I got it from a search as well, but I asked GPT to enhance the image and add text to it.
how much time can opening photopea or something like that take to add text to an image? Not throwing shade or anything, but it's probably something I would never have thought about asking an AI to do
You can just use markdown for this not even Photopea 😂
What's the difference? Just seems like two ways of accomplishing something
EDIT: lotta downvotes but no nuanced explanation for the hate, alright then 😕
AI smears vaseline over your image
one doesnt waste a small lake's worth of water
how exactly is it "wasted"? even if it, for some reason, wasn't in a closed cooling loop, water doesn't just disappear
Can you explain the implications of this? What are the larger consequences of water wastage due to AI usage
Edit: I'm also not sure about the implications because some people are claiming data centers use closed loops for cooling systems so, again, not sure about the implications of the original statement.
Linda true tho😅
Who is Linda?
She’s a prompt engineer
Linda back and relax, human
Linda deez nuts
That's how you know the Komment was written by a human and not an AI
Kommy
You don't know Linda True?
And Noah gathered all animals, two of every lind...
Ling James version?
You really couldn't even google "generic slot machine"? It's litterly less effort than asking an AI to generate it... I swear can we ban all things AI from this sub? It's mostly jokes about AI or made with AI... Granted it was repetitive with the "JS bad", "Rust good" and "Git difficult" memes, but atleast they were related to PROGRAMMING
You’ve never played Elocks, Tuckts & Fraits irl?
I love pushing the Vay and OĂnĮ buttons to see if I bVĘdAG
It’s all fun and games til you spin a DOLY
Kind of ironic you used AI to make this.
It makes it just more interesting
Very accurate, sadly
vibe coders be like:
[insert raxdflipnote gif]
backpropagation: 'I should have bet yes' vs 'I should have used this prompt instead'
I wanted to add a slot machine lever instead of a send button to my chat UI when there were a lot of complaints about some of the models degrading some time ago.
Local LLMs?
Hah, joke's on them. I use free Duck Duck Go AI chat.
I managed to sign up for 8 chatgpt accounts with the period in a gmail trick. When I tried to sign up for more it stopped working :C
So now I just cycle between each one of them and my other odd accounts at the start of the day and if I run out of attachments or reason I just switch to the next account.
Free spins!
I think that applies to anything with an uncertain outcome. Don't know that I'd equate it to gambling in every situation though.
Wait , can someone explain to me what exactly vibe coding is, is it literally just ai coding?
Yes, you tell the ai what you want, and it shoots out a bunch of code that it thinks will achieve that
Im so, so sick of AI, even at work its "oh can we generate a webpage using AI", or "have you heard you can make AI blogs now".
wait thats what vibe coding is? i tought it was coding an entire pogram whitout testing shit and if it work was luck
What does it mean when you self-host the LLM?
Truly, nice bait. Using AI to criticize AI is a genius move
the Cursor is in profit
Doubt
This is so true cause,
the people who strongly advocate vibe coding are closer to people advocating gambling because the first lever they pulled they won.
But if your a speculative investor you’ll see that guys winning and realize, “hmm that guy got lucky but over time fundamentals will kick in and he’ll start feeling the negative EV”
Most programmers are like that investor that sees gambling and thinks, “anyone who says this is working is probably lucky”
To keep the analogy going,
“Just prompt better” translates to “just one more lever pull… come one, one more… this time you’ll pull the lever differently and something different will happen”
cope
"AI is easy because you press a button and it's done fast" yea right... Effort is needed...
vibe coding
"Effort"
The jokes write themselves...
Read the post again and then observe the reality.
Observe that actual people use AI after they complete their project to optimize its loops only because they care and they want to put a little more effort to it.
You must be a beginner programmer right? You should be using all available tools unless you have a reason not too. Like all those useless sloppy frameworks...
What you describe is not what people mean when talking about vibe coding. Your use case is valid, letting AI do everything is shit
Well yes but my original message also did not include the word vibe... Idk why people make false scenarios and defeat them in their heads... My post was a reference to the final bullet and one of the arguments of some anti-tech people that we don't do any work.
Idk why people make false scenarios and defeat them in their heads
That's because everyone is talking about one thing, and you're talking about something entirely different.
It's almost as if they are making a fake scene in their mind and winning over it...
I would say I am an experienced junior at best. I have general advanced programming knowledge without much expertise in a specific field, but enough experience in general to be quite flexible. This post is about vibe coding, aka AI powered no-code, not using AI as a tool. In reality I do know devs that use AI to squash nasty bugs and have done it myself. But I also know that it is often a last resort or done with knowledge and critical thinking.
Not everyone uses AI like that and this post is mainly about the people that ask a question to AI and blindly copy paste the result. I prefer to use debuggers and reading the fucking manual as one should. Rubberducking is also one of my favorite kinds of debugging as it also makes me more familiar with the problem so I can prevent it the next time.
And why are frameworks suddenly catching strays???
I also think that as a beginner you shouldn't use those tools or any tools in fact. Try to learn the basics and go up from there. Then you learn WHY certain frameworks and libraries exist and WHEN to use certain tools or patterns. It's also why you don't let children drive cars. First they should learn general traffic rules, then a bike and more traffic rules and then a motorized vehicle.
But I also know that it is often a last resort or done with knowledge and critical thinking.
It is not nearly powerful enough to be a last resort, and should always be done with knowledge and critical thinking like all things. That is your usage issue, you are using it wrong, your actual human brain that is smarter is the last resort, the ai can type really fast and continue typing while you take a piss, or work on other code.
If nothing else when you see the mess you can usually see what it was going for and fix it up when you review the diffs.
If it can do anything in the background while I do other things, then I win, just dont waste time on it if it looks fishy and reject the diffs
For me it's often to pull me out of tunnel vision. When I have a problem and can't solve it I go into a tunnel vision, then some kind of person that I can describe my problem to can help A LOT to give other insights. The problem is that I don't have the luxury of always having other devs around me, especially at home lmao. Then it's quite useful to me to ask AI...
Another AI generated meme to diss AI...
All comments here are also AI — believe me.
Except this comment since most LLMs can't use these new Unicode 16.0 emojis: 🇨🇶
So you're saying there's a chance?
The emojis aren't even part of the training data of a lot of LLMs. Even the ones that are new enough to recognise them struggles with using them. Here's Gemini Flash 2.5 failing to list them:
Given the current date (July 8, 2025), and knowing that Emoji 16.0 was finalized in September 2024 and Emoji 17.0 is expected in September 2025, I can display the emojis from Emoji 16.0 as they should be widely available now. Here are the emojis from Emoji 16.0: * Face with bags under eyes: 🫨 * Fingerprint: 🫲 * Splatter: 🫱 * Root vegetable: 🫚 * Leafless tree: 🫠 * Harp: 🪕 * Shovel: 🫘 * Flag of Sark: 🇸🇦🇨 (This is a combination of regional indicator symbols that typically renders as the flag of Sark)
It's supposed to be:
So you're saying there's a chance?
Hah as if anything I say could be described as intelligent.
Source: I'm an AI
You've got to fight fire with fire