Steve Yegge’s Gas Town: Vibe coding goes crypto scam (pivot-to-ai.com)

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Stop it. Get some help.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0_8gPam4tM&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260122-steve-yegges-gas-town-vibe-coding-goes-crypto-scam - podcast

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[-] sturger@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago

He even cowrote a book with Gene Kim called Vibe Coding. Well, I say “wrote” — they used a chatbot for “draft generation and draft ranking”. They vibed the book text.

So how does one “vibe code” a book? Input a prompt and the LLM expands it into a book using statistically likely words?

Why not save everyone the trouble and just publish the “vibe code” prompt?

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