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Content "Higher-Order-Vibes" Are Killing the Vibe Coding Industry I used to be a 10x Vibecoder. A prompt artisan with five years of vibe experience on my CV. My job was to whisper sweet nothings into our company's overpriced ChatGPT wrapper. The MVPs shipped one after the other. I was good. Then, word come out about "Higher-Order-Vibes": Prompts which coaxed Als to act like vibe coders. Some Satoshi-wannabe released the whitepaper anonymously, and it became the talk of every CTO. It was a replacement. A dehumanizing monstrosity which stood against everything I vibed for. My first day with HOV, I fed it a hand-crafted prompt for a meditation app. Then, it responded: > Prompt too detailed. Over-specified. Try to feel it more. I'll take it from here. Then it generated the app. It was perfect. Better than anything I could have put into wishful words. It even chose to use Elm instead of Svelte, and wrote a 500-word justification explaining that the vibe was more aligned like that." Let this be a warning. Our craft, our vibing age is coming to an end.

The duality of the paranoid developer! First panel: frantically hunting through VS Code settings to disable Microsoft's telemetry like a digital privacy crusader. Matrix-style background because we're obviously elite hackers protecting our precious code snippets and search history. Second panel: immediately surrendering all that privacy by activating GitHub Copilot, which sends your entire codebase to Microsoft's servers for analysis. It's like installing a security system on your front door while leaving the back door wide open with a neon sign saying "FREE DATA HERE!" The true irony? We'll spend hours configuring privacy settings but won't hesitate for a second to let an AI see our embarrassingly commented code if it saves us from writing another boring CRUD function. Privacy principles

Garbage in, garbage out—but with extra steps! When you feed an AI model your terrible code as training data, don't act shocked when it spits back equally terrible solutions. It's like teaching a parrot all your worst swear words and then being surprised when it curses during family dinner. The circle of code life continues: your technical debt just found a way to reproduce itself through artificial intelligence.

Ah, the tech industry's obsession with catchy acronyms has reached mythological proportions! First we had FAANG (Facebook/Meta, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google) as the titans of tech. Then NVIDIA crashes the trillion-dollar party, and suddenly we're reading MANGA (Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia, Google, Amazon) instead. But the real punchline? The original poster one-ups everyone with "AGAMEMNON" - cramming in every tech giant they can think of into one absurdly grandiose Greek reference. Because nothing says "I'm a coding king commanding an army of developers" like naming your stock portfolio after a Trojan War commander. The Ozymandias reference in the title is just *chef's kiss* - these tech empires might seem invincible now, but someday they'll just be ancient ruins for future civilizations to puzzle over. "Look upon my 404 pages, ye mighty, and despair!"

Content The Self Taught "Serious" Programmer Starter Kit "Just learn assemblv" What the hell is a proof? "bro, you don't need math" Has zero professional experience Lacks basic computer architecture fundamentals despite praising its importance Very active in r/_programming Over emphasizes the importance of code editors and sneers at IDEs made with mematie

THE ETERNAL STRUGGLE OF 2024!!! Standing at the crossroads of modern developer existence - do you sacrifice your precious free time to the AI gods, or continue living your blissfully ignorant life?! The left path beckons with ominous red lightning: "Spend 2 hours every day on AI or PERISH from irrelevance!" Meanwhile, the right path with its calming blue glow whispers: "Just keep binging Netflix and gaming like the tech apocalypse isn't happening!" And here we all are, frozen in decision paralysis, wondering if we're throwing away our careers or just avoiding another overhyped tech bubble. The FOMO is REAL, people! That choice has never felt more dramatic than when you're still wearing shorts in the face of potential career extinction! 💀