Anyone else noticed the increase of Vibe coded plugins flooding the market?
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- KVRian
- 873 posts since 26 Aug, 2005 from Oregon, USA
The AI Center tech bros are now putting their eyes to countries with plenty of water, cheap electricity, cold climate and local politicians duped to believe they get a lot of new jobs.
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- KVRAF
- 5219 posts since 13 Jul, 2004 from Earth
Yep. We are in for a very bumpy ride.ksandvik wrote: Sat Jul 11, 2026 8:12 am The AI Center tech bros are now putting their eyes to countries with plenty of water, cheap electricity, cold climate and local politicians duped to believe they get a lot of new jobs.
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- KVRAF
- 7757 posts since 2 Sep, 2019
Just to understand what we're actually talking about. This is the claim that kicked off the data center fear and loathing. It overestimated water usage by 1000 times because journalists don't understand math.
Here is the research writer that exposed the error:
https://andymasley.substack.com/s/ai-an ... e?sort=top
https://www.wired.com/story/karen-hao-e ... statisticsLast month, journalist Karen Hao posted a Twitter thread in which she acknowledged that there was a substantial error in her blockbuster book Empire of AI. Hao had written that a proposed Google data center in a town near Santiago, Chile, could require “more than one thousand times the amount of water consumed by the entire population”—a figure which, thanks to a unit misunderstanding, appears to have been off by a magnitude of 1,000.
Here is the research writer that exposed the error:
https://andymasley.substack.com/s/ai-an ... e?sort=top
THIS MUSIC HAS BEEN MIXED TO BE PLAYED LOUD SO TURN IT UP
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 3712 posts since 21 Nov, 2015
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- KVRian
- 1482 posts since 7 Apr, 2007 from Bellows Falls, VT
It seems to me the talented devs (I hang out with some) get to run with this stuff, if it meets their moral/ethical standards (note: we are in the music business) and the good ones continue to act very much as themselves but maybe have upped their production.
I don't think this is the AI actually helping them. I think it's just enticed them to go on a tear. I went on a tear with the new Meter without any AI involved at all: just started doing stuff and trying the next new idea, and typed 'em all out myself. I think talented coders get suckered into going on a tear when the AI seems to be 'writing code for them, but imperfectly' and they're just trying harder, for as long as they're happy doing so. And that's the talented ones.
And then there are some who fully go mad and think the AI is giving them godlike powers, and also start replying to every possible thing, and it's always 'the bug is being fixed, that problem isn't real, it's great, note my positive cheery tone with lots of emdashes' because they're using AI for EVERYTHING and don't have the sense to recognize when they're acting inhuman.
And then there's always some who go fully psychotic and come to grief because they're gambling their real lives on the idea the AI will meld with their simple ambition to become a Voltron of tech total dominance, and it's their aggression that kind of sidelines those folks: they get mad when you don't admit their superiority and it becomes a fight and they're using the AI to do the work for them but aren't using it to couch their PR in marketing-speak.
We really are seeing all kinds. You might not spot the talented guys with experience doing it because, like I said, I think they're just on a tear, as themselves. It saved them a lot of typing (at a cost, even if only the vast sums they're now paying for tokens) but they're still basically coding as themselves, just tricked into working lots faster than they were.
It's weirdly encouraging that lots of people are finding ways to faceplant at AI speeds, rather than work at a normal rate. It's pretty harrowing how much they're flooding the zone, though. And I say that as a dev known to go too damn fast and always have
I don't think this is the AI actually helping them. I think it's just enticed them to go on a tear. I went on a tear with the new Meter without any AI involved at all: just started doing stuff and trying the next new idea, and typed 'em all out myself. I think talented coders get suckered into going on a tear when the AI seems to be 'writing code for them, but imperfectly' and they're just trying harder, for as long as they're happy doing so. And that's the talented ones.
And then there are some who fully go mad and think the AI is giving them godlike powers, and also start replying to every possible thing, and it's always 'the bug is being fixed, that problem isn't real, it's great, note my positive cheery tone with lots of emdashes' because they're using AI for EVERYTHING and don't have the sense to recognize when they're acting inhuman.
And then there's always some who go fully psychotic and come to grief because they're gambling their real lives on the idea the AI will meld with their simple ambition to become a Voltron of tech total dominance, and it's their aggression that kind of sidelines those folks: they get mad when you don't admit their superiority and it becomes a fight and they're using the AI to do the work for them but aren't using it to couch their PR in marketing-speak.
We really are seeing all kinds. You might not spot the talented guys with experience doing it because, like I said, I think they're just on a tear, as themselves. It saved them a lot of typing (at a cost, even if only the vast sums they're now paying for tokens) but they're still basically coding as themselves, just tricked into working lots faster than they were.
It's weirdly encouraging that lots of people are finding ways to faceplant at AI speeds, rather than work at a normal rate. It's pretty harrowing how much they're flooding the zone, though. And I say that as a dev known to go too damn fast and always have