Frauenversteher

That’s cool, take the good part of Brave, leave behind the villainous CEO and dodgy crypto scams

Out of the box yes this is true, but:

1. Custom instructions go a long way
2. Review the code yourself, tell it what to fix, and it will fix it. For me it often takes like 5 rounds of this before the code is fully polished to the point I’m proud of it. And you know what? It’s still MULTIPLE times faster than typing code by hand. And at least for me, the quality is higher, because I have 12 different agents that review the work too and they catch additional issues that even I missed.

If you or others ship shitty code don’t blame the LLM, the issue is entirely the engineer using it wrong

Skill issue tbh

It means that you created the code via natural language instructions to an LLM as opposed to typing by hand. You still need to verify its work, review and understand the code to at least some extent, and go through many iterations before it’s production ready.

Some people create vibeslop without looking at the code at all which is fine for a throwaway hobby project or personal tools but it will very quickly turn into unmaintainable garbage if you don’t guide the architecture, redirect away from bad approaches, review the code carefully and make the LLM fix any issues, ensure proper testing, and periodically refactor and improve code quality. If that sounds like hard work then that’s because it is, doing a good job with agentic accelerated engineering is hard work, but you can still build 2x-5x faster at the same quality level than if you typed it by hand. And that’s with current models, they’re only getting better

Fwiw that’s not what vibe coding means

I like AI

I think that’s far too low tbh

Please elaborate

You only just noticed this now?

To be fair WhatsApp is also pretty bad. Telegram used to be the gold standard but they’ve been making it more and more crappy for the last few years

I haven’t used default texting since 2010 😅

Here’s a list I made last time I tried it. Might not all still be true!

• Signal accounts are tied to a phone number, which is dumb and limiting. You can’t contact someone by username only (or let someone contact you without giving them your phone number), nor can you have multiple phone numbers (I have a work phone and personal phone).
• Signal has no polls or pinned messages.
• No cloud chats comes with a few disadvantages e.g. no global search across all chat history.
• No cloud media storage means you only can keep as much as you can fit on your device, whereas in telegram i can still look at pictures sent to me a decade ago.
• No bot api, which most people probably don’t care about but sucks for me cos I regularly make telegram bots to improve my experience and for fun.
• Signal also has no custom themes but that’s kinda meh.
• Signal has no silent or scheduled messages, and editing/deleting a messages is time-limited (and beta).
• Pretty sure telegram has better emoji reactions and animated gifs etc though not sure.

That’s a ridiculously low bar, I wouldn’t wish the default texting app on my worst enemy

My friends and I would love to switch to Signal but every time we try it we just find that the app isn’t very nice to use and a lot of functionality we have come to take for granted is missing. Has it improved recently or is that still the case?

Yes it does

You’ve managed to be wrong 4 times in one sentence, that’s impressive

Is nobody gonna mention the mixing of different types of dashes?

Do you mean everywhere in the world? Or just like within the same country

Guess I’m in the 10%