Only Thing It Kinda Gets Right

Someone asked Google's AI-powered CLI if it's a serious coding tool or just vaporware after Antigravity's release. The CLI decided to answer by... narrating its entire thought process like a nervous student explaining their homework. "I'm ready. I will send the response. I'm done. I will not verify worker/core.py as it's likely standard." Buddy, we asked a yes/no question, not for your internal monologue. This is what happens when you give an LLM a command line interface—it turns into that coworker who shares every single brain cell firing in the Slack channel. The best part? After all that verbose self-narration ("I will stop thinking. I'm ready. I will respond."), it probably still didn't answer the actual question. Classic AI move: maximum tokens, minimum clarity. This is basically Google's version of "show your work" but the AI took it way too literally. Maybe next update they'll add a --shut-up-and-just-do-it flag.

Ah, the modern tech hero's journey: "I wrote a prompt, AI generated an API, and now I'm basically the next unicorn founder." Sure buddy, and I once wrote a regex that worked on the first try – doesn't mean I'm Jeff Bezos. The gap between "my AI prompt worked once" and "billion-dollar company" is roughly the same as the gap between "I installed Linux" and "I now run NASA." Those compute bills will hit harder than the reality that prompt engineering isn't the same as actually engineering. Ten years in the trenches and I've learned one truth: the harder someone humble-brags about how easy something was, the more spectacularly it'll explode in production.

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.

AI evangelists love to pitch that you can now build apps without knowing how to code. Just prompt your way to success, they say. Ship features with vibes alone. But here's the thing: AI can't fix the fact that your brain is a barren wasteland of unoriginal thoughts. You still need something worth building. Turns out the bottleneck was never the coding—it was having a single interesting idea in the first place. So congrats, you've automated the easy part and still can't ship because you're stuck staring at a blank canvas wondering what the 47th todo app should look like.

AI companies out here selling glorified parrots as revolutionary technology, and CEOs are eating it up like it's the second coming of electricity. The sales pitch: "Look, it makes noises that vaguely resemble human conversation!" The CEO's response: "Perfect! Fire everyone and let it diagnose cancer." Nothing says "sound business decision" quite like replacing your entire workforce with a statistical model that's essentially playing Mad Libs with the entire internet. Sure, it doesn't understand context, nuance, or reality, but it sounds confident, and that's apparently all that matters in the C-suite these days. The jump from "mimics speech patterns" to "can diagnose medical disorders" is the kind of logical leap that would make even the most optimistic venture capitalist nervous. But hey, when you've already fired your entire staff, who's left to tell you it's a terrible idea? Certainly not the chatbot that just hallucinated your company's entire medical liability insurance policy.

Someone just learned how to add "act as an expert" to their ChatGPT prompts and suddenly thinks they've transcended human knowledge. The hubris is real. The first tweet is genuinely asking why Wikipedia exists when ChatGPT can just... make stuff up with confidence? Because nothing says "reliable information" like a large language model that occasionally hallucinates entire programming languages and historical events. Sure, let's replace peer-reviewed, sourced articles with probabilistic token generation. What could go wrong? The reply absolutely murders them with a Wall-E reference—comparing them to the humans who got so dependent on technology they literally became floating blobs in chairs. Brutal. Accurate. Chef's kiss. 💋 The irony? These are the same devs who will spend 3 hours debugging why their AI-generated code doesn't work instead of reading the docs for 5 minutes. Wikipedia isn't going anywhere, buddy.