Having a bunch of ill-formed thoughts here about poppy bulbs, coca leaves and how the dose makes the poison, when it comes to vibe coding as a practice.
I am starting to suspect that computing as a culture and practice has been cultivating a deep _vulnerability to_ LLM slop for a long time now. Via Stack Overflow and any number of forums for years without collectively realizing that's what we were doing.
mhoye
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