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I'll be completely honest with you — I have absolutely no idea why everything seems to be broken right now. But I have some suspicions. My suspicions were aroused a few months ago when I reported that Amazon pulled a Kindle update. A Reddit commenter found a certain amount of schadenfreude in the situation and claimed that Amazon had laid off a bunch of people and replaced them with vibe coding. The implications were obvious — the problems are due to vibe coding. Code written by generative AI is prone to hallucinations and is highly likely to contain bugs and issues. Or at least, that's the th
I tracked how Google and Amazon push stealth updates, and it completely explained my broken phone appsIs this what a vibe-coded future looks like?
If AI is the future and vibe coding is where the tech industry is headed, is this what we should really be looking forward to? Broken apps, bug-ridden operating systems, and hallucinating AI chatbots? I have no evidence that this is happening, except for Amazon, where it clearly is. But the trends in broken apps and updates are so similar that I'm willing to take a guess and assume that it is. If it is true, the future doesn't look great for tech in general, and software in particular. Unless companies stop using AI, either due to the bubble popping or the costs becoming prohibitive, we'll hav
I tracked how Google and Amazon push stealth updates, and it completely explained my broken phone appsI used the Pixel 10a and Pixel 8a, and the answer isn't what I expected
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