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With the current tech, I agree this will still be pretty niche. I'm vibe-coding my own iOS apps, and it still needs a decent understanding of the tech and a willingness to put up with a lot of rough edges.

However, with a proper framework (e.g., a very opinionated design system, the ability to choose from some pre-designed structures/flows, etc.) I could very much see ad hoc creation of software becoming more widespread.

> It will be interesting to see if Apple/Android provide a platform for vibe-apps.

It would be interesting, particularly for Apple, as this would cannibalize fees charged on the App Store. I imagine they could charge for use of the vibe-coding platform, but Apple hasn't been great at figuring out LLMs.

It would be cool if 3rd partly app platform could provide this functionality, but as I noted in another comment, I cannot even install my own vibe-coded apps to my own iPhone. (Without the 100 USD a year developer tax.) So I'm not sure how the architecture would work on iOS.

I'm doing something very similar (creating my own apps for personal use), but I'm creating iOS apps primarily.

Here's what bugs me: I cannot permanently install my apps to my iPhone because of Apple's walled garden. I need to reinstall every 7 days and constantly re-confirm that I am a "Trusted" developer.

I know I can pay Apple 100 USD a year for a developer account, but I bought this phone outright 7 years ago, I own it. (Obviously, I clearly don't in this case.) /rant

Not OP, but I use Xcode with Claude Pro and it is going fairly well. I also am creating my own personal-use apps instead of paying for monthly subscriptions. I know a bit of Swift, and had been trying to learn it while also using LLMs. At this point, I've decided to also not make these real projects and just vibe-code exactly what I want.

Both this and the earlier post emphasize the lack of combat deployments in the examples. I should think disability would cover any service-related injury.

Sorry, you're claiming a decrease of 0.1% over one month (after a clear upward trajectory since April 2023) as evidence that tariffs are working?

A few notes:

> The reason for tariffs is NOT to reduce prices but to bring production (jobs, capacity) home.

Tariffs can be used for many purposes. I would say this is administration is clearly not using them to bring jobs home. Earlier tariffs were lowered/dropped when trade deals were signed, and the current ones are clearly a way to strong arm Europe to giving up its territory.

> Unemployment rate has decreased to 4.4%.

Decreased from where...? Not including the pandemic, 4.4% is the highest rate in almost a decade. Unemployment is clearly rising: https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/civilian-une...

Not sure how quickly the one from the post takes, but according to the Wikipedia article, brass disinfects "within two hours or less". I could see plenty of transmission within one to two hours. Perhaps it is a difference of speed?

Love it.

> I like to think the electricity has made the plants super-intelligent and now they talk to each over over LoRa and plot against the cat.

This should be the next Pixar film.

I built a basic LoRa network so I could send data from my washing machine in the apartment cellar to my Home Assistant box in my apartment several floors up. It very much did occur to me that the technologies/skills I was learning would also be useful to create a decentralized mesh network for general communication.

Or make "campaign contributions".

I haven't seen Landman, but I have heard of it. My understanding is that all the characters are pretty miserable, but that it nonetheless weirdly glorifies their lifestyles.

I guess it is a bit like François Truffaut's statement that there are no "anti-war films". I imagine if some population segment has chosen to identify with a particular lifestyle (oilman, soldier, gangster, etc.) then it doesn't really matter quite how that lifestyle is portrayed so long as the viewer can make a connection with it.

I'm a pretty big fan of the cancer treatments that saved my mother, the emergency medical treatment that saved my wife, the antibiotics that saved my brother. Also, it is -15C outside, and I am very much enjoying central heating.

With that said, I do partly agree with you. I do think that becoming too divorced from the natural world drives a great many ills.

I think the challenge is finding the balance. We sure don't have it now.

I'll second this. I'm making a fairly basic iOS/Swift app with an accompanying React-based site. I was able to vibe-code the React site (it isn't pretty, but it works and the code is fairly decent). But I've struggled to get the Swift code to be reliable.

Which makes sense. I'm sure there's lots of training data for React/HTML/CSS/etc. but much less with Swift, especially the newer versions.

I've had trouble explaining to clients the what a "domain name" is and how it is different from the "website host". I can only begin to imagine having to also explain cryptocurrency and a convoluted system like this.

And if OpenAI cannot get it dismissed, they'll probably just settle, which then stops discovery. (IANAL)

I like thinking about the scales of speed and the impact it has on one's experience.

I used to fly fairly regularly between Germany and Italy. I'd get on a plane in Munich and get off in Florence, going from a very "German" place to a very "Italian" place. A few years ago I started driving the route, and I was surprised just how much gradation there is between the cultures.

As an American, I always thought of "Italians" and "Germans" as very distinct cultures, but then you drive through Südtirol (or Alto Adige, if you're feeling Italian, the northern most province of Italy) and it feels quite Germanic. Then gradually, as you continue south, you hear more Italian, see more Italianate architecture and place names. Similar story for Alsace between France and Germany.

Of course none of this is all that surprising knowing the history of these areas, but it is very interesting to experience in-person.

I'm sure most places and cultures are like this, even when we think of of them as quite distinct. When you only fly between major cities, you lose so much of the wonderful overlap.

> Well, that ain't as bad news/punishment as it used to be.

Agreed. My company (which is smallish but quite international) has largely stopped meetups/conferences/etc. in the US because so many people either have to wait ages for a visa, or are from countries now on blacklists. This is not to mention the risk of getting randomly pulled by TSA/ICE/etc. I have to imagine this is much more widespread than just my company as well.

Fun to watch a superpower attempt self-destruction. /s Too bad it'll probably hurt all of us in some form or another.

While I don't love over-regulation, and there certainly are some parts of the DSA which are probably over-broad, it is astonishingly rich that the current US administration is targeting the EU for "suppressing freedom of expression".

It never fully went away:

• https://www.hcn.org/articles/agriculture-farmers-turn-to-pri...

• https://www.law.georgetown.edu/environmental-law-review/blog...

Not to mention that there is plenty of research, especially foundational research, which is not being funded by corporations. Often this research provides the foundation for significant breakthroughs.

This is mentioned in the article, that you need very specific topography for water pumped storage. Additionally, it can require a lot of space and be quite expensive and time-consuming to build.

> But that feels tenuous at best

Yeah, I rather doubt that the direction of history can so easily be summarized by good/bad times and soft/hard men.

It doesn't even require poverty/rural areas/etc. I grew up in (basically) sub-urban USA to a solidly middle-class family and I was always out wandering around the neighborhood or on my bike.

I'm not sure I'm following. How would does the gender balance of HR have a role to play here?

Based on this research, the impact of these populations on the allocation of representatives is probably not particularly large: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/07/24/how-remov...

Sure, the House is almost evenly split, so a few seats here or there would have an impact. But the net result would probably be further mitigated by gerrymandering, other population shifts, and so on.

One other thing I appreciated from this article is how it touches on comments about simply following the law. Just because something is legal, does not make it morally questionable (at best). From the article:

> The apportionment of seats in Congress is required by the U.S. Constitution, which says that the census will be used to divide the House of Representatives “among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State,” except for enslaved people, who, until the late 1800s, were counted as three-fifths of a person, and certain American Indians.

It does not take much imagination to see how use of these tools can be easily abused.

There are already stories of abuse, here are a few: https://www.aclu-wi.org/news/what-the-flock-police-surveilla... (Many more can be found with a quick Google search.)

I came to the comments to say exactly this. I think the reason is a combination of incompetence, ignorance, and greed.

I believe the EU tends to follow a precautionary principle, namely a substance generally must be shown to be safe before it’s approved. In contrast, the US follows a risk-based approach where a substance can often be used unless it’s shown to be harmful. So it isn't really that many "safe" things in the EU are banned, rather they have not been approved. Pretty sure this is specific to food additives, though may apply to other areas.

Unfortunately, most of what you suggest would get in the way of many people making a lot of money.