The article is about incompetence. Incompetence while doing a fraud gets you sent to prison.

s/gets you/gets mere morals, but not those who bought or are corrupt politicians/

With less corruption, the shorter form would be almost universally true. Corruption exists on a continuum and some countries are currently experiencing crisis levels of it.

I did Thinkpad tech support at IBM right around the time these were discontinued. Great machine, rarely had any problems aside from getting drivers and IRQs configured when folks decided to install Win95

Stamen! One of the OGs at this point.

This is probably the least controversial thing Mike has ever written, so naturally the HN consensus appears to be universal scorn. (And for the record, I don’t even like dogs, but I’m also aware that’s a me problem.)

So the answer to “how are we going to verify that vibe-coded application code does what we think it does is “we’re going to vibe-code the tests too”?

Fair concern — but I’d argue it’s not really ‘vibe-coding’ the tests. With Playwright MCP, the AI uses structural page data and ref_ids captured at runtime, which leads to highly stable and reproducible interactions. It’s not guessing — it’s anchored in what the browser sees.

In practice, the tests it generates are actually easier to reason about than a lot of hand-written Playwright code I’ve seen in the wild. And for scenarios like acceptance testing or rapid iteration, this approach speeds things up without sacrificing much in terms of clarity or stability.

Don’t bother, man - it’s vibes all the way down.

Word on the street was that my Physics professor at NCSSM (Dr Britton) worked on this problem during his doctorate

CMD-F “capitalism”: zero matches

LOL

I did not want to scare off the LessWrong Siliconvalley VC... Capitalism is a result of the legal and organizational frameworks..

Downvotes incoming in three … two …

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Another common conflation is graphic design vs application design. Fusion 360 has strong graphic design and meh application design.

All the videos I’ve encountered from this channel have a disconcerting combination of incredible production value, and highly questionable attention to detail with respect to the information that’s being disseminated

That is YouTube in a nutshell in 2025.

Poe's Law applies.