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[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 87 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oooh so clever, call it bubble so when people search ai bubble…

I mean it’ll probably work on some people…

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

jokes on you, google chatbot won't know about it because it was made past cutoff date

[–] nixukty@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

kid named web search tool

[–] Thorry@feddit.org 48 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Oh no! Our AI bot creates terrible code! We are doomed!

But sir, what if we simply don't show the code to users?

Dammit Jenkins, you did it again! You are a genius!

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Dammit ~~Jenkins~~ Gemini, you did it again! You are a genius!

Fixed that for you.

[–] toynbee@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

Like serverless applications ...

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 36 points 1 week ago

you might think that there's a bubble

[–] schmorpel@slrpnk.net 24 points 1 week ago

Slop - new recipe now with more slop! Buy one AI and get a tulip bulb for free!

[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Ok, I am old and not a techy person… I thought “vibe code” was a bad thing? So, is this ad saying “shitty code without the code?” So it’s just shitty? Or is my understanding of “vibe coding” wrong and it’s a good thing?

[–] scutiger@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Vibe coding typically needs to be double-checked to make sure that it does what it's actually supposed to because LLMs are notoriously prone to hallucinations. This ad suggests that their AI is better and you don't need to double check it.

But what's probably more likely is that they're just trying to break searches for "ai bubble."

[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I see, thank you for explaining. So, shitty AI company making shitty ads about probably a shitty product.

[–] laz@pawb.social 6 points 1 week ago

So business as usual :')

LLMs are notoriously prone to hallucinations

It's all hallucinations. Sometimes the hallucinations are close enough to reality to be useful.

[–] SatyrSack@quokk.au 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Before current AI/LLM shenanigans, there were a lot of "low code/no code" visual programming solutions aimed at allowing novices to write software using little to no code. Visual programming software like Microsoft Power Automate, which provides users with a list of predefined commands which they can drag-and-drop onto a flowchart. When a user clicks the play button, the commands in the flowchart execute in order.

This sort of system is great for novices, allowing people who do not have experience programming (people like you, apparently) to create simple programs that do useful things. But as a project grows in complexity, so does the need to get into the code itself and tinker around to fix the nitty gritty details. A more experienced developer is going to want to get into the lower functions of the program and find a solution to the problem. But these visual programming solutions do not offer the ability to fix the nitty gritty. You are stuck only refining the high-level details, which is often not enough to solve your problem.

"Traditional" vibe coding with languages like JavaScript, C++, etc. can potentially work because an LLM spits out actual programming code that ostensibly does something. And if a developer needs to tweak that code to work a little differently, they hypothetically can. Sure, a pure vibe coder will not know what they are doing as they turn the proverbial knobs in an attempt to fix the system. But at least the knobs are there to turn, and turning them in the right way can potentially eventually solve the problem.

"Vibe code without the code" probably means to speak to an LLM and have it spit out one of those minorly-editable flowcharts. You get the benefits of vibe coding and the detriments of visual programming. You don't know what to do to fix it, and you can't fix it anyway because the tools don't let you.

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's probably some app engine that lets product teams enter prompts without even giving the option to view the code.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Calling it bubble is really tempting fate.

We’ve officially jumped the shark.

I'm yoinking this image

[–] plutopos@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Imagine getting doxxed because someone recognized the subway tiles

[–] Sergio@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

When I was in Boston they had screen ads like that and the tiles look familiar. Might be NYC? Not many other options in the US, idk about other countries. I don't think you can dox someone just knowing that they're white and they ride the T.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

NGL I was gonna say this looks like a T-Stop. Maybe Kendall or South Station?

[–] misterbngo@awful.systems 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I was thinking South station/downtown crossing, kendall doesn't have the division like that and has the tubular bells

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Didn't they just redo kendall outbound tho?

It's been a while...I work in that area but wfh 99% of the time and drive in like 0.75%. I don't recall if new Kendall outbound has the bells still.

[–] Sergio@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

It'd make sense that they'd put a tech ad at Kendall/MIT. Or anywhere on the northern Red line tbh.

[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

not even necessarily white

[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

good luck doxxing someone in NYC lol

this looks like MTA but I'm not completely sure. the stations can look really wildly different from each other because they're maintained by 3 former train companies in a trenchcoat, with severely asymmetrical priorities

[–] Luisp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 week ago

It's like buying a memecoin called ponzi

[–] Swaus01@piefed.social 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Vibe code without the code? So... vibe everything? Hell no

Edit: "Hey bubble, how do i wipe my own ass?"

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 4 points 1 week ago

Pay us $100 more per month for ass wiping subscription

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I was just recently reading that the NYC subway is awash in vague weird B2B AI ads directed at nobody and they're calling it "subway slop".

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh yeah there's a lot of them and they're terrible.

I like that someone edited one so instead of saying "one click: job done" it said "one click: job gone"

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago

I swear the people who deface subway ads in New York are some of the cleverest funniest sonsofbitches around.

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Wow the $549/month version gives access to 20 days of server logs, how generous

Shipping code without anyone ever looking at it, WCGW?

I first thought this was an ad for a bobba shop, and thought it was clever.

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago

vibe code without the code

We call that vibing.

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 4 points 1 week ago

I miss when vibing was just taking ecstacy at raves

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 3 points 1 week ago

Duct tape is cheap.

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago

tbh most if not all ads are terrible, i actually kinda like how this one doesn't feature shitty ai generated slop images