does it really matter if it was vibe-coded?

If you want secure, reliable, and maintainable code, very much yes.

People are calling this a ‘problem’ and a ‘bug’ … but it’s neither. It was just a missing feature.

Bookmarks, people – use 'em!

Easier to search, more organizable, easier to transfer to new devices, more resistant to being lost, they don’t eat up all your RAM … the advantages over endless open tabs are immense!

Long overdue, really.

Hijacking like this is one of many reasons I’m running noscript these days.

can you create more of like a natural language interface that lets people do everything they want?

I don’t want a ‘natural language interface’ in my browser.

I want a browser interface in my browser.

This shit ain’t broke. Don’t fix it.

Can you customize your homepage? Can you add widgets? Can you change your background in whatever way you want?

I could already do all of that, without AI.

Just when I was about to upgrade my router, too. Fuck.

Can’t wait for the calls from outraged customers demanding that I honor the AI-hallucinated offers they found on my website. (The AI decided that customers were more likely to stay on my webpage if my prices were 80% lower.)

People who say you need a profit motive to do work are just passionless and detached from the world…

You might even say they’re feeling alienated, as a certain German economist might say.

I do, actually. But I’m not going to spend it on this frivolous bullshit.

I think instead I’ll install some solar panels on my house…

Honestly, yes, I think it’s one of the best examples of anarchism in action the world has ever seen. And an especially pertinent example to point out to those who’d say things like, “Why would anyone do work or innovate without a profit motive?” Lots of good and innovative software, made without any profit incentive by a collective of people who are working on it just because they want to and they enjoy it.

Are they finally discovering that AI slop is bad?

In my youth I was taught that democracy meant that the government served the people.

In your youth, your teachers lied to you.

Hm… Come to think of it…

Fact #1: Microsoft claims their codebase is now 30% AI-generated.

Fact #2: US courts are in pretty unanimous agreement that AI generated material cannot be copyrighted.

So… What percentage of AI-generated code does Microslop need to reach before their software copyrights become unenforceable?

Never get high on your own supply. First rule of being a slop dealer.

I heard once that Microsoft employees are not allowed to use Teams to communicate on the job. Not sure why. Probably because it sucks or is terribly insecure.

Well, the big issue with that is that all the projects you want to donate to will also have to be on that same platform. If any of them aren’t, you’ll still have to deal with those ones individually.

the question of whether evolutionary pressure on the timescale of human generations can keep up with our technological advancement

As long as people exist who could/would refuse it, and as long as there are enough of them to form a viable breeding population, evolution will bring the species through it.

Waiting for random beneficial mutations usually takes a long, long time. But if the beneficial mutations are already in a population, the population can adapt extremely quickly. If all the individuals without that mutation died off quickly (or at least didn’t produce offspring) then that mutation would be in basically 100% of the population within one generation. A rather smaller generation than the previous ones, sure, but they would have less competition and more room to grow. (Though, thanks to recessive genetics, you’re likely to still see individuals popping up without that beneficial mutation occasionally for a long time to come. But those throwbacks will become more and more rare as time goes on.)

That’s a vast oversimplification, though. Because it’s very unlikely that the ability to resist the temptation of ‘wireheading’ comes down to the presence or absence of a single particular gene.

Since mouse studies have already been done, it would be interesting to do it with a large, long-running experiment on an entire breeding population of mice, to see if there are any mice that are capable of surviving and reproducing under those conditions (and if so, do they show any evidence of evolving to become more resistant?)