After many months of making fun of the term "vibe coding," Emily and Alex tackle the LLMs-as-coders fad head-on, with help from security researcher Susanna Cox. From one person's screed that proclaims everyone not on the vibe-coding bandwagon to be crazy, to the grandiose claim that LLMs could be the "opposable thumb" of the entire world of computing. It's big yikes, all around.

Susanna Cox is a consulting AI security researcher and a member of the core author team at OWASP AI Exchange.

References:

My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts

LLMs: the opposable thumb of computing

A disastrous day in the life of a vibe coder

Also referenced:

Signal president Meredith Whittaker on the fundamental security problem with agentic AI

The "S" in MCP stands for security

Our Opinions Are Correct: The Turing Test is Bullshit

AI Hell:

Sam Altman: The (gentle) singularity is already here

What do the boosters think reading is, anyway?

Meta's climate model made up fake CO2 removal ideas

Ongoing lawsuit means all your ChatGPT conversations will be saved

"Dance like you're part of the training set"

Some Guy tries to mansplain Signal to…Signal's president

WSJ headline claims ChatGPT "self-reflection", gets dunked

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Starting Remembering Old Times,

And some general cleanup and resource gathering while playing with the new magical pot, lol

Finishing Mickey's Secret Door quest.

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Finally figured out how to proceed in the Secret Door quest only to get stuck because I wound up looking at the Wrong. Curtain.

LOL MIDAS T. GOLDEN.

(TW: Discussions of Suicide)

Conrads, I was unable to complete filming for the start of my next series, so instead enjoy me playing through The Yukon Trail on windows 3.1 (well, in browser anyway).

This is in the same genre as the oregon trail, and in fact was produced by MECC. The goal is to teach children about the 1897 yukon gold rush. It is unique in that it has a pretty realistic take on gold prospecting, namely that it sucks and the easiest way to make money in a gold rush is sell eggs.

I played this a lot as a kid and I hate to say it but this is probably the best score I've ever gotten in this game.

Oh Yeah FYI the game meantions a suicide from out of nowhere so that's cool I guess. I put the TW at the beginning for a reason. the exact time is 34:29 to 34:45

The yukon trail is abandonware and can be downloaded here: https://www.myabandonware.com/game/the-yukon-trail-3st

Sorry about the poor game audio, it's a problem with the in-browser player.

The system configuration I'm using:

OS: Arch Linux x86_64

Game Info:

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Continuing Boss Up

I would have finished Boss Up if it weren't for the damn kingfish needing to be caught at night. So I went to Ariel.

Also very much had technical difficulties during this run. I think the game needed an update but didn't tell me so it was being glitchy. An uninstall and a reinstall should fix it tho

Finishing Boss Up and Thingamabobs, Gadgets, and Gizmos.

Really short because I was playing after midnight so I could catch the stupid Kingfish. But taunting Scar was kinda fun, lol

Ahahahaha finally get to see Simba and Nala! He's such a dork, lol

Playing through Eyes In The Dark, Stars To Guide Us, Press Start!, and started Boss Up. Got to the sea witch before I realized I had been playing for a while and needed a break.

Running around doing errands for Ursula...But really only because I thought it'd get me to Eric faster.