I think you should give your gut instinct more credit. The tech world has gotten a false sense of security from the big SaaS platforms running everything that make the nitty gritty security details disappear in a seamless user experience, and that includes LLM chatbot providers. Even open source development libraries with exposure to the wild are so heavily scrutinized and well-honed that it’s easy even for people like me that started in the 90s to lose sight of the real risk on the other side that. No more popping up some raw script on an Apache server to do its best against whatever is out there. Vibe coded projects trade a lot of that hard-won stability for the convenience of not having to consider some amount of the implementation details. People that are jumping all over this for anything except sandbox usage either don’t know any better, or forgot what they’ve learned.

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project2501a 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Totally agree. And the fact that the author says

> What I want is to change the world, not build a large company and teaming up with OpenAI is the fastest way to bring this to everyone.

do no not make me feel all warm and fuzzy: Yeah, changing the world with Tiel's money. Try joining a union instead.

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vkou 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Change the world into what? Techno-feudalism?

Ever since I was four, I've dreamed of doing my part to bring that about.

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kranke155 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Very happy to see techno feudalism being mentioned here in HN.

Whatever the origins of the term, it now seems clear it’s kind of the direction things are going.

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komali2 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I recently met a guy that goes to these "San Francisco Freedom Club" parties. Check their website, it's basically just a lot of Capitalism Fans and megawealthies getting drunk somewhere fancy in SF. Anyway, he's an ultra-capitalist and we spent a day at a cafe (co-working event) chatting in a conversation that started with him proposing private roads and shot into orbit when he said "Should we be valuing all humans equally?"

Throughout the conversation he speculated on some truly bizarre possible futures, including an oligarchic takeover by billionaires with private armies following the collapse of the USA under Trump. What weirded me out was how oddly specific he got about all the possible futures he was speculating about that all ended with Thiel, Musk, and friends as feudal lords. Either he thinks about it a lot, or he overhears this kind of thing at the ultracapitalist soirées he's been going to.

	▲	tcoff91 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		So basically a bunch of rich tech edgelords are just doing blow and trying to bring about the world as depicted in Snow Crash?! Guess I’ll have to get a Samurai sword soon and pivot to high stakes pizza delivery. There are a disturbing amount of parallels between Elon and L Bob Rife. It’s really disturbing that we have oligarchs trying to eagerly create a cyberpunk dystopia.

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trollbridge 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I was really into the idea of kings, knights, castles, princesses etc when I was 4.