I use an app to put friction between myself and my phone web browser. It is a good way to break a bad habit but it's ridiculous, really, to use tech as a barrier to tech. My real preference, if I could, would be not to need a smart phone in the first place, but I live in a world where you get punished if you don't.
I cannot imagine ever, ever, ever wanting to vibecode anything, not for my household or personal life or anything else. The very idea of using anything with any sort of LLM input makes me feel ill. Any kind of LLM use replaces possible human encounters, expression, communication. Even seemingly trivial texts, like coding, are a field for human thought, expression, and culture, and even though I would very much struggle to program anything that's not super simple the very idea of having my thought being replaced by LLM output is extremely offensive to me, it's like being told I shouldn't learn new skills or think or have a voice. I don't think vibecoding can ever be a form of resistance. It's just another way of being complicit with a worldview where more and more inherently deep, complex activities (writing, communication, coding, art, design) are treated as trivial, subhuman and lacking social or cultural possibilities.
I was thinking about opening chapter of The Dignity of Dependence yesterday when taking the train back from my book tour stop in Santa Barbara. My seat was so uncomfortable because I am short and my feet could not reach the footrest!
I use an app to put friction between myself and my phone web browser. It is a good way to break a bad habit but it's ridiculous, really, to use tech as a barrier to tech. My real preference, if I could, would be not to need a smart phone in the first place, but I live in a world where you get punished if you don't.
I cannot imagine ever, ever, ever wanting to vibecode anything, not for my household or personal life or anything else. The very idea of using anything with any sort of LLM input makes me feel ill. Any kind of LLM use replaces possible human encounters, expression, communication. Even seemingly trivial texts, like coding, are a field for human thought, expression, and culture, and even though I would very much struggle to program anything that's not super simple the very idea of having my thought being replaced by LLM output is extremely offensive to me, it's like being told I shouldn't learn new skills or think or have a voice. I don't think vibecoding can ever be a form of resistance. It's just another way of being complicit with a worldview where more and more inherently deep, complex activities (writing, communication, coding, art, design) are treated as trivial, subhuman and lacking social or cultural possibilities.
I was thinking about opening chapter of The Dignity of Dependence yesterday when taking the train back from my book tour stop in Santa Barbara. My seat was so uncomfortable because I am short and my feet could not reach the footrest!
Leah you are really a Reinassance Man (well... Woman! 😂) from tabletop games to coding and stats to policymaking to the humanities!