186 / Vibe Coding vs Reality

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Toot of the Week

ME: The building is on fire! REPLY GUY: This is nothing new. Buildings burn every day. [continues to sit there, burns to death] — @inthehands@hachyderm.io

Leadership

• The Hidden Ways Leaders Unintentionally Punish Their Top Performers (newsletter.canopy.is)

  Claire Lew shares 5 ways top-performers are unintentionally driven away.

AI

• "Vibe Coding" vs Reality (cendyne.dev)

  Cendyne about practical shortcomings in vibe coding with current LLMs.

• Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face (drewdevault.com)

  Drew DeVault shares their frustrations of companies, lately AI, abusing SourceHut.

• Is it okay? (robinsloan.com)

  Robin Sloan explores the ethical question behind modern LLMs.

• The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem (theatlantic.com)

  Alex Reisner about Meta torrenting a pirated books collection called LibGen with more than 7.5M books to train their AI models.

Cutting Room Floor

• Garbage (craigmod.com)

  Craig Mod about the human urgen to get rid of garbage as quickly as possible.

• Stamina is a Quiet Advantage (kupajo.com)

  Kupajo about the benefits of persistence in life.