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Steve Yegge’s Gas Town: Vibe coding goes crypto scam (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 15 hours ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Stop it. Get some help.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0_8gPam4tM&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260122-steve-yegges-gas-town-vibe-coding-goes-crypto-scam - podcast

time: 9 min 49 sec

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[–] mirrorwitch@awful.systems 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I went from "oh hey Steve Yegge I vaguely remember that name, what's he up to these days?" to "Oh." in the space of half a sentence

[–] mirrorwitch@awful.systems 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Someone at the It Could Happen Here podcast was making a prediction that someone at some point will make a big push for an "AI crypto", which (under some pretext or another) you can only mine with AI datacenters. Because there's like a real big amount of resources being burned on AI datacenters, and as the chatbots continue to fail to return anything at all on the massive investment, they'll have to come up with a way to justify the datacentres' existence at all. Maybe Yegge's just ahead of the curve 🤷‍♀️