[HN Gopher] The Brute Squad
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The Brute Squad
Author : tosh
Score : 13 points
Date : 2025-06-18 16:43 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| treetalker wrote:
| "I'm sorry, Inigo, I didn't mean to vibe it so hard."
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| But seriously: as an attorney, I find that this writing perfectly
| reflects what I imagine it must be like to live inside the head
| of someone who agentic-vibe-codes for a living. It's all over the
| map; pulled (and pulling the reader) in a dozen different
| directions; non-standard; mixing metaphors and idioms; likely 20x
| longer than it ought to be; and almost able to figure out its own
| point in the pastiche as it flails around.
|
| I imagine that the coding results of the process described would
| be similar. Would that be an accurate prediction?
| ameliaquining wrote:
| The author has been blogging about software development for I
| think 20 years or so, and has long had a somewhat freewheeling
| style. So I don't think this is attributable entirely to the
| subject matter.
| zzfs6 wrote:
| The only thing I can really take away from this is that now
| programming is basically gambling. And this is good why?
| cantalopes wrote:
| Tl;dr: it's an ad
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