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[-] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago

Turns out that vibecoding is a bad idea when the vibes are off.

Worse yet, when the very thing that you rely upon to tell you when the vibes are off isn't capable of telling you because its own self-assessment is based on the very vibes that you know are off, you're left with the awareness that something is wrong while also getting a readout that assures you that nothing is wrong.

Image of a passage from a book that reads: "It's as if you have two fuel gauges on your car," the other man said, "and one says your tank is full and the other registers empty. They can't both be right. They conflict. But it's--in your case--not one functioning and one malfunctioning; it's . . . Here's what I mean. Both gauges study exactly the same amount of fuel: the same fuel, the same tank. Actually they test the same thing. You as the driven have only an indirect relationship to the fuel tank, via the gauge on, in your case, gauges. In fact, the tank could fall offentirely and you wouldn't know until some dashboard indicator told you or finally theengine stopped. There should never be two gauges reporting conflicting information, because as soon as that happens you have no knowledge of the condition being reported on at all. This is not the same as a gauge and a backup gauge, where the backup onecuts in when the regular one fouls up."

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