I see your point.

Last time I “vibe coded” something (internal) and I liked it because I couldn’t find external solution.

I admire coders who can finish their code into deliverable and usable piece.

Issue here is software abundance and ppl will start to hesitate due to absurd pile that they should evaluate.

It reminds me the statistics of ice cream global sales. People want certainty so they choose chocolate or vanilla :)

Therefore many good software projects will have a problem to find users.

i think we need to encode (or refine) what we mean by “vibe code.” my original impression was that it was used to describe the process whereby someone with an idea but lacking development/engineering skills leveraged llm via an agent to create the mechanics to bring their idea to fruition. anymore it seems like if it has the hint of AI then it’s “vibe coded.”

ironically, i didn’t read the article because i come to comments now to see if its been identified as AI slop, so i don’t know which area this falls into

Definitely. The original vibe coding tweet is pretty explicit about “forgetting the code exists”, and “throwaway weekend projects” (https://x.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383)

Now however, many people just use it to mean any ai-assisted coding.

One person says “vibe coding” to mean a throwaway script to scrape some page. Others use it to mean a code reviewed app built by a team using Claude.

It is so broad as to be meaningless at this point

Cool. Thus I am an ai/llm-assisted coder amateur. I don’t code for living, I know principles (or I think so) but don’t remember syntax (too old to learn new tricks :)

He continued with Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.

The Fifth Element has similar cinematic feeling as the first Blade Runner.

And now it is clear. There is the same person behind it :)

Valerian missed the mark; I'm sure it's got great designs (although I also believe it's mostly CGI), but the story of the movie is disjointed (which is a risk when trying to merge multiple storylines into one) and the actors are lifeless.

I really liked Valerian. The story was fine and I expected Cara to be crap but she was actually fine.

I did however very much hated Dane DeHaan's annoying voice.

I've grown to like Valerian over rewatches, but unfortunately it suffers from Besson being a massive Valerian fanboy and trying to stuff everything he possibly could into it... I think he'd have done far better if he'd gotten a more limited budget, or had to produce three of them for the cost of the one he did...

Impossible job as Valérian and Laureline has 22 volumes :)

I know, hence why I think he should have gotten a smaller budget so that he was forced to try to contain himself to one story. Then maybe it'd have done well enough for a sequel as well... It feels like he got into it thinking he had this one shot so he better see how many things he could put in it, and as a result ensured he got only one shot...

The Fifth Element and Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets are widely considered to share a thematic and stylistic universe, with similar aesthetic influences. There are shared elements (ha!) and aesthetics, with Valerian even featuring a shop called "Korbens" as an easter egg to The Fifth Element.

Unfortunately the movie doesn't do it for me, the 90s were a better time.

Once CGI became good storytelling and creativity took a backseat in Hollywood.

Perfect CGI and no-grain 4K (?) flattened the feeling.

Valerian was fun, but I really don't think it held together. Great set piece scenes though.

waterworld

Models have their “personalities” for sure but that expensive model is better is maybe just a confirmation bias.

(There was a blind test in Wine Enthusiasist magazine - even sommeliers didn’t recognize expensive wines from cheaper alternatives.)

But ofc if you get perfect results in one shot from expensive model, it is cheaper than wrangling with cheap model for an hour…(just an example).

But what I see hard is to navigating so many models available - HuggingFace has 2,769,687 models listed…

So every comparison like this or at models.dev or arena.ai is good.

You can use thunderbird or any other desktop mail software for connecting to gmail.

And then just use gmail as smtp for outgoing mails and imap or pop3 for incoming mails.

I miss “BREAKING NEWS” as it is used at X /s

People make fun that we should say magic words in interaction with LLMs. How frustrated can Claude be? /s

> Within a year of launching ChatGPT, we reached $1B in revenue. By the end of 2024 we were generating $1B per quarter. We are now generating $2B in revenue per month.

They raised $122B.

122 / 12*2 = 5 years to get your money back (I simplify, I know revenue <> profit)

They are so big that almost no one can afford to acquire them. It is similar as someone would like to acquire MSFT or AAPL.

WCGW?

Revenue is on metric. Another important metric is gross margin. OpenAI's gross margin is estimated at 33%[0]. They also have to pay Microsoft 20% of revenue. So, for each $1 of revenue:

Revenue $1.00

COGS (inference) (0.67)

Microsoft (0.20)

Gross margin $0.13

That $0.13 must cover "everything else": R&D, payroll, etc., and ideally leave some profit on the table.

The problem for OpenAI (and other pure AI companies) is that inference is not like software that sells at marginal cost (build once, sell everywhere), but each token costs money. Inference gets cheaper, but newer models require more computing power and consume more tokens. So the gross margin does not improve over time.

Break-even in the future won't come from just growing API usage and subscriber base.

[0] https://sacra.com/c/openai/

Correction: no one can afford to acquire them.

Nice work.

In section The 30u30 Risk Index there is some css bug, text is in long lines outside of boxes.

Well… because it is not almost possible do it solo.

Code is just one part of puzzle. Add: Pricing, marketing and ads, invoicing, VAT, make really good onboarding, measure churn rate, do customer service…

A lot of vibe coders are solopreneurs. You have to be very consistent and disciplined to make final product that sells.

> […] At one point, his spending on AI reached $100,000 a year. That went toward subscriptions to AI tools from Google, Anthropic and OpenAI, as well as fees to access their models directly through application programming interfaces,[…]

It is an edge case example with $8,333 monthly.