| ▲ | Gracana 4 hours ago |
| I think people responded that way because you strongly implied he was an unserious vibecoder who was just fooling around, and you called him suspicious as fuck. Your post and the ones that followed are a good example of the contrarian dynamic that dang often talks about. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... |
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| ▲ | SkyBelow 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| >who was just fooling around In my own professional life, I've found this to be a very divisive statement. For some, it is a sign of wasting time and effort. For others, they use this to describe themselves when they want to do exploration for the goal of finding improvements, without any clear goal because they have a few ideas but none worth putting forward. I've been told to spend time learning AI and have found that saying "Yeah, I'm playing around with it." was the wrong thing to say because it was seen as not doing anything worthwhile. It doesn't matter that I would also say the majority of my tech skills were developed when I was "playing around". I wonder if this is purely a linguistics breakdown, or if this is tied to some deeper difference in a person's relationship to tech? |
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| ▲ | ffreire 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Agree it's divisive, and I would argue it speaks more to a person's perception of work vs play more than a relationship to tech. If (the general) you think that play is for children and work is serious biz, then yeah I could see how you wouldn't take someone seriously when they say they're "playing around with it". It's usually not obvious which attitude a person has though without getting to know them a little bit. | |
| ▲ | antonvs an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Yes, I think it can be a sign of a very deep difference. When they say "spend time learning AI," they mean work through some teaching materials to learn how to replicate what others are doing. This often doesn't result in a deep understanding, but it can be enough to allow them to do their job. Ironically, people with this mindset will sometimes ask people who they recognize as having strong skills to share their magic secret, which is assumed to be some books they read, videos they watched, courses they attended, etc. If you tell them that experimenting, playing around, etc. is a key element, they may assume you're just selfishly hoarding your fount of knowledge. |
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| ▲ | latexr 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > called him suspicious as fuck I don’t see anything from your parent commenter on the other thread that deserves that classification. On the contrary, while they initially had suspicious of vibe coding, on later comments they are cordial and even admit their own misunderstanding. What am I missing? Where does “called him suspicious as fuck” come from? Edit: Answered below (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49754311). Thank you. |
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| ▲ | burkaman 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | "you [...] sound sus af" at the end of the comment. sus means suspicious and af stands for as fuck. | | |
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| ▲ | latexr 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Thank you. I did indeed miss that. I did do a ⌘F for the individual words, but it didn’t occur to me they could’ve been written like that. | | |
| ▲ | thih9 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | To be fair, writing "sus af" is different from writing "suspicious as fuck" (just like "wtf" reads differently from "what the fuck", etc). |
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| ▲ | embedding-shape 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Not to mention the author themselves say "Yes, there's a lot of vibe-coding in many places [...] We'll prune AI slop over time.", and then they both moved on to discussing the actual questions. The whole "Wow, looks AI" > "Yeah, some of it is, we'll fix it later" was such a small part of the conversation, but then there are countless of other people chiming in about specifically the "Is It Slop Or Not?", rather than the meat of the conversation. And here we are adding even more meta-comments about it. |
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| ▲ | perching_aix 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| OOTL, could you give a link to a relevant @dang post? |
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