@numericcitizen I would argue further that all programming is, ultimately, sourced in the natural language of the programmer. Until a programmer‘s mind has expressed the problem well enough to itself to then craft a solution addressing the domain, no translation of the solution can be expressed in the constructed language instantiating the program. Vibe coding seems a natural extension of this trend to push trust further down the stack, as it were.

@cherizilla I wonder if there are any correlates between learning natural languages and programming “languages”, and, just for flavor, between these and the capacity to absorb slang, jargon, etc.

Any programmers with 3+ languages at their disposal? Was three easier?

@numericcitizen beautiful brutalist but how does one jump the moat?

@amerpie im fond of those birds. We have em in Nevada too, but can we get an affectionate alternate for “grackle? It doesn’t really fit them. I’ve heard “corvette” as a possibility, which sounds pretty good, no?

@JohnPhilpin leet or LEET, as in “elite”, as in character shape collision corny hacker slang, as in 1337.

@cherizilla ha! I was surprised when I first saw one, too. ❡ Maybe they’re going for “be smart enough to know all deals are final”?

@MitchWagner Yes—and the will power, aka functioning executive function, aka flames under buttocks to do it—but yes! (Note the em dashes in this post were human created.)

@Archimage every goddam time…it’s a circle not a line.

@bkryer maybe I’m a dummy and just don’t get something, but to just dismiss these pursuits as hokum with no attention to the insights yielded, no acknowledgement of their value. Idk, it baffled me to hear it.

@hotdogsladies she was so awesome in The Studio and countless others. Damn.