Paul Cantrell @inthehands@hachyderm.io
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Downthread is really good:
mastodon.social/@jonathanhogg/

…and…this, BINGO:
mastodon.social/@jonathanhogg/

Jonathan Hogg (@jonathanhogg@mastodon.social)

You know what? HyperCard was a glorious moment in time that I dearly miss: an army of non-experts were bashing together and sharing weird and wonderful stacks that were part 'zine, part adventure game and part database. Instead of laughing at vibe-coders, maybe we should ask ourselves why the current state-of-the-art in beginner-friendly programming tools is a planet-boiling roulette wheel.

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Paul Cantrell @inthehands@hachyderm.io
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There’s a long history of people thinking that they’ve made programming easier by changing the syntax, or by making it not look like programming. That history is mostly a parade of embarrassments (COBOL! 4GLs!). One big subset of the current AI hype is just that mistake again — “vibe coding is programming in English!” — but now compounded by the nondeterminism of the tool.

Hogg’s thread correctly navigates around that mistake, focusing on •abstractions• instead of •syntax• as the problem.

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