It’s great for coding things that you don’t care if it gets it wrong, though. Like, I vibe coded a JavaScript injection to add a client-side accessibility feature to a website running a fairly complex tech stack. I don’t know JavaScript, but I know how to code, and I know enough HTML and CSS to do simple things.

It failed quite a few times, but each time I just needed to refresh the page for a clean slate, tell the LLM how it fucked up, and try again. In about an hour, I had a functional script I could inject in the site to bolt on a new feature.

I was reading the code along the way, so I know what it’s doing for the most part (not some of the JavaScript things, like why there are extra brackets in places I wouldn’t expect, but whatever.) It wasn’t doing anything dangerous.

Not mission critical. A small block of code to do one simple thing. There was no real downside or cost of failure, aside from wasted time. And it’s small enough that it’s easy to understand from scratch; it’ll be fairly easy to update and maintain.

On the other hand, it sounds like Microslop and NVidia (and many others) are using AI slop in complex, mission-critical projects. I’d be nervous for their future, if I cared about them.

This will lead to lower prices, right?

/s

(In case you didn’t know, no, it won’t. The Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve is run by the maple syrup cartel to keep prices artificially inflated.)

OctoPi is included by default for a GUI app, iirc.

Brittleness didn’t get talked about enough. I couldn’t figure out why my fundament was breaking on retraction to my Creality Hi CFS over and over again. It was driving me nuts. The prints all came out looking great, so I thought I wasn’t having humidity issues and that there was a mechanical problem somewhere. Took the whole damn thing apart to clean and check that everything was tightened to correctly. Multiple times.

I just needed a filament dryer.

I had no idea that filament snapping on retraction could be caused by wet filament, and I read about 3D printing a lot more than most. Almost all threads about wet filament are about print quality, and people rarely mention brittleness. Conversely, in threads about filament jams/errors, most comments focus on the mechanical parts (tension, loose screws, debris in the gears, temps, etc.) and rarely mention wet, brittle filament as a possible cause.

If you’re reading this and don’t have one (or another method for it), get a filament dryer. I recommend the Creality one when it goes on sale as it’s one of the cheapest options that can hit the high temps needed for some filaments and that can also be used as a dry box you can print from. My only gripe is needing to prop the lid open when it’s drying to release the humidity. It’s silly that it can’t dry filament properly without the door cracked open.

What the AI slop did I just read? That wasn’t even edited.

The infill selections for comparison don’t make a lick of sense, and one of the tables doesn’t even have content that matches its introduction.

What a waste of time.

Edit: 57 upvotes? What the hell. Does nobody read the article?