I think the community is a good size right now. Popular enough that we guarantee getting any content of relevance I care about, but not popular enough to have all the problems you mentioned. I hope the community stays this size and off the radar indefinitely.
I do a lot of “disconnected coding,” think scripts that do a long and complicated calculation, triggered manually by a few users, and aren’t online services. In these cases vibe coding is pretty great: if something doesn’t work the first time, I can iterate easily till it does. Very few consequences in getting it wrong other than time. My hand is also very firmly on the wheel and I have a lot of time to think about changes to fix issues or make things better.
Now for an online service with very specific requirements on how it handles inputs and produces outputs, at scale, with security issues, and millions of people using it…yeah I’d be pulling my hair out too if I had to vibe code all that.
I don’t even get how it would work in practice. If me and another person are staring at the price tag of a block of cheese, and I’m rich and they’re not, does it laser beam a price into my eyeballs and a different, lower price into theirs? Cause otherwise when I take the block of cheese to the register and suddenly it’s double the price, I’m putting the cheese back cause I saw the lower price.
Yeah I honestly can’t think of why one needs more than 1 gigabit other than what you mentioned (or torrenting). Even 1 gig feels like overkill for us and I do much more internetting than the average person.
I too was very confused by this and have the same memory as you; this was released a long time ago already. Did the Tom’s hardware guy not check the date?
What a combigent, inbiltum response!