#BruceSterling

*Well, there's his original quip, for the historical record.

*The guy who invented the "Nuclear Magnetic Resonator" medical scanner. He thought it would be a home device, where you step in it like a shower, and it just scans you every morning, and tells you everything wrong with you

*Man, I don't even know what text-system auto-dis-corrected Andrej Karpathy's name here. I didn't humanly do that. I know he's Slovakian, okay. Andrej is Slovakian and Canadian

*No wonder he needs to make up a lot of words

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*What I'm witnessing is something deeper, where language-models are generating novel dialects that are not of human origin, and humans are eagerly adopting those dialects and using them with one another

*"Delvish" sounds polite, self-assured and refined, to a lot of people. It's classy

*Of course I'm extremely keen on "conceptual imagination"

*But if you ask for "All Power to the Conceptual Imagination," you're basically asking to be ruled by Elon's XTwitter stream

*He does that all day every day, and he's already got the billions. Plus, an extralegal, coup d'etat coder militia

*Not all vibe is vibe and not all slop is slop. Those are pejoratives, so I kinda enjoy using them

*But, I don't want to make the critical mistakes of John Ruskin, who firmly preached that molten cast-iron was inherently evil, and had no proper place in architecture or in cities

*He's making a good point here. However, the world is already full of "legacy code" where the humans who wrote it and understood it are dead of old age. It's code so opaque and inexplicable that nobody dares to touch it

*But the LLMs can "explain it." Sorta. They do a better job than humans do

*I enjoy "predicting the present."

*"The future is already here, just not well-distributed."

*Therefore, the prediction is most-likely out there right now, and I just haven't yet personally heard about it

*Well, that's why you need an agentic pack of ten different ones that are all biting each other

*Sure, they lie like Congressmen, but you've got a congress of them, so what the hell

*This activity is very much like firing up the DOGE engines, and going out patrolling for "DEI words," and then cutting budgets

*Linguistic vibe-policing, it's the way forward

*Maybe your existent code is awful, and you "vibe code," and the result is miraculously improved in practically every measurable way. So "vibe coded" means a brilliant standard of high quality and stellar performance. "Vibe code " is code vastly better than you, a mere human, could ever create

*There must be other varieties of "vibe-coding," dependent on the new means, motives, opportunities, and their eccentric intersections with the old ways

*There's probably pirate vibe-code where I pirate somebody's excellent, traditional, expensive code and have the LLM blur it up some, so that I can plagiarize the code and pretend that I invented it all myself, and then sell the knock-off #predictingthepresent

*And there's agentic vibe-coding like "Wasteland of Gas Towns" where there are thousands of different LLM agents competing. You put in a "pull request," and the code-base in question gets yanked-sideways a little, and you don't know or care who or what "did the work"

*And there's vibe-coding where my code is 40-year-old COBOL and already a spaghetti-code mess. I tell the LLM to fix it all up, and it neatly reformats and auto-tests it, and confidently says that it works great. And it does work, but the software errors are even subtler and more invisible

*And then there's 80-percent vibe-coding, where the model does 80 percent of the necessary work. I ought to complete it myself. But I just toss the project out there, in the vague hope that someone else will use it and fix it, even though it's dysfunctional, dangerous, crashy and a cyberwar hazard

*Then there's extreme vibe-coding where I'm Jane Winecooler and I tell my chatbot pal to invent a weight-control exercise app just for me. It makes one instantly. I never even look at the lines of code. Also I get fatter, because I'm lazy, and I never actually use my shiny new vibecoded app

*Now I can dis-employ the pretty girl because she's just some intern

*And my vibe-coded product is a "real painting." It does what real software does, and I expect to get paid full price for it, and have it framed in the gallery and admired by the software critics

*Original "vibe coding" is, I'm a genuine code expert like Andrei Karpathy. I'm like an expert oil-painter, and an LLM is like my Polaroid camera. I take a snapshot of the young woman, and I finish painting from the Polaroid, and I finish a lot faster

*I take your point, but I also think there's gonna be a post-AI "vibed healthcare" that doesn't look much at all like new-agey "Wellness"

*For instance, trustingly upload all your medical records to Grok and have Elon's pet AI diagnose you at no charge

*Can you even vibe code "vibe coding." I know it's just handy slang that Karpathy made up just a year ago, but it's sounds like "vibe" slops over ten or twelve different activities that might be made more sharp and distinct

*I wonder how many activities can be vibed besides "vibe coding."

Is a "kinetic military operation" a "vibe war," for instance.

Is a selfie a "vibe portrait."

Is social media virality "vibe journalism."

Is life extension "vibe healthcare"

*Replacing workers is one thing, but replacing consumers, even better

*What would ideal consumer-bots actually do, I wonder, if they had funds, and were deployed in their thousands

*Slopped materials. #slopjects

*His how-I-do-it book is on sale! You wanna go halfsies? Maybe we could get Anthropic to scrape it for us!

beacons.ai/majesticaist...

*Like this, you mean?

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*This XTwitter guy is a crank, but he's got 50K followers and he's having a sudden panic attack about data centers getting drone-hit

*He somehow imagines that Trumpistan data-centers could NEVER get drone-hit, or just shot up with 50-calibers by disgruntled J6ers

*Not much of an electoral turnout, but I'm surprised that China is doing so well for honesty here

*Are those voters, perhaps, the Chinese bots who follow me on XTwitter

*It's category three that's gonna be the real comer. Three, six, nine years from now. #DeadMediaSingularity