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Notch Vibing
AI Programming Gamedev
2 months ago 34.4M views 0 shares
Notch Vibing
The creator of Minecraft just speedran the entire AI discourse arc in 9 hours. From "Reject AI" to "actually, maybe I'll just code myself" because finding good programmers is harder than building a blocky empire that sold for $2.5 billion. The brutal honesty here is *chef's kiss*. He's not pivoting to vibe coding because he suddenly discovered the joy of programming—he's doing it because apparently hiring developers has become so painful that writing code yourself feels like the easier option. And the kicker? He'll "probably feel less bad about firing a chat bot." Nothing says 2026 quite like replacing your hiring problems with prompt engineering problems. The engagement metrics going absolutely nuclear (5.1M views) just proves everyone relates to either the hiring nightmare or the existential dread of being potentially replaced by someone who's willing to just do it themselves with AI assistance.

But.. (From Minecraft B 1.2_02)
Java Gamedev Programming
2 months ago 1.7M views 0 shares
But.. (From Minecraft B 1.2_02)
So you're telling me you check if something is NOT eating, and if that's true, you print "Eating... But..."? That's some galaxy brain logic right there. The real kicker is what comes after—setting hasNormal to true and then doing some sketchy byte casting with bit shifts. Nothing says "stable codebase" like multiplying floats by magic numbers (128.0F, 127.0F, 82.0F) and shoving them into bytes with wild type casting. Classic early Minecraft code. Notch was out here speed-running game development with the kind of code that makes you go "it works, don't touch it" for the next decade. The variable names are doing absolutely zero favors too—xx, yy, zz? We're converting coordinates here but the logic feels like it was written at 3 AM fueled by energy drinks and pure chaos.