Well they can't vibe code away that random crash that's effected the launcher since day one...

effected

affected?

Steam actually put out their update first. Epic had already lost their one point before they even released it

Tomato potato

Steam update remind me of Meet the Heavy.

Valve comes in, put the patch note down, and sit down

"I am Valve."

hold the patch note in its hand

"And this is my patch note."

iphected

Which random crash? It's never crashed on me. Maybe it's a Windows thing that I wouldn't know about?

Is that literally what Epic tweeted??

Come on guy

I always assumed vibe coding waw like the alur that people gave it. People use that in a professional setting?

No, they blogged it.. But it is a literal summary of what they wrote in that blog.

Programming is hard. So, instead of doing that, we vibe coded a new Epic Games Launcher that’s way faster and more responsive than the current one, and has a new look.

And then they showed the figures for their new launcher compared to Steams.

If they try to appeal to a certain AI-techbro/political segment because they have given up on ever reaching a general audience, then yes, some people do use that in a professional setting. It attracts that particular segment while it has the nice feature to repel everyone else.

This meme gave me my morning chuckle and chortle before work. Thank you 🙏

there are like different levels of vibe coding. like from "user just gives goal and AI does everything else" to "AI just does the repeatable boilerplate, but does not make any technical decisions and is heavily reviewed".

People use that in a professional setting?

Yes. Every level. Everything use of AI and vibecoding that you can imagine is used in a professional setting. Sometimes it happens because individual employees are lazy. Sometimes the company actively embraces it

Yes, in my experience its goes like:

me: " This is a problem for us"

them: "Your 'problem' is simple. I can fix it, easy. Here is the fix, you're welcome."

me: "Great! how does it work? how do we test it? did you get management to assign some resources for this?"

them: "oh, this was vibecoded, so I'm not providing support , maintenance or user testing - that's your job isn't it? Here's a 250-page 'documentation'. I haven't read it, but I ran it through a second LLM and asked that to fix any errors. So there's probably only a few left that you should be able to fix in a few minutes. "

me: " I will take up work on a farm administering anal suppositories to sick horses because that will be a thousand times more tolerable . . ."

them: " . . . by the way - it just operates using dummy data for now. You'll just need to link it in to the actual database before you release it."

It is a slur, but management got a hold of it and now it's everything. Enshittification means everything's shit now.

Oh God how horrible 🫣

What the actual fuck 🤣 Are we kidding right now? This blog post reads like an APRIL FOOLS JOKE, what is going on?!

In fact, the whole post reads like it was vibed out of a computer asshole as well.

Tomatoes and potatoes are different fruit

And there's even a very bad marketing department at Mistral (french company, only frontier lab at Europe) because they call "vibe" their coding harness. They don't even value their products, which is fine (they suck)

advanced digital commerce technology such as a shopping cart.

oh boy, the author most have been smoking some good stuff xD

oh boy. good that i never used that in the first place.

No dinner first?

also never crashed for me. there is a simple trick to avoid crashes of any software, that they don't want you to know: don't install it.

I just use epic for the free games, but with heroic launcher you don't even need to interact with anything but their webpage and download servers!

They probably vibe wrote that comment.

They still develop the Unreal engine, though. 😫

its weird that people are using vibe to both indicate writen by ai, or writen off the cuff, you know, not writen by ai.

In this case I meant it as writing without thinking. An AI bot would probably output something without much substance, but also without the grammatical error.

For its next trick, Valve should make Steam as performant as it was before they made it Electronslop.

This certainly seems like Steam already had a bug open for startup performance, but it was always a lower priority than other things (because it wasn't a breaking issue, and startup was still generally fine) so it was just never addressed. It may even have had a partial fix that hadn't been shipped yet, waiting for another pass at it.

Once Epic tried to use that as an attack, they just fixed it as the low hanging fruit it was.

it always had its own browser baked-in.. it was always slow.

it's just a bigger, slower pile of dung today than it used to be.

Somewhat related, I like the new update for Steam on Linux that uses the most recent stable Proton by default for exe files that are added rather than having to pick it from a list every time.

wouldn't be surprised if all they did was defer some network traffic.

On the old client you could disable the integrated browser using the "-no-browser" command line switch.

Programming is hard

Weird flex for a company that is supposedly taking money for programming. Interesting strategy to admit you are completely incompetent, rather than merely lazy.

So familiar. We had a requirement and said we would work it if management agreed, sales guy: "no need, I just vibed it", then confused as the very first person trying to use it fell over, and when they manually fixed the broken result, someone else demonstrated a critical vulnerability in the concept as vibed, even when working as 'intended'.

Whatever utility the new stuff can provide, it's not worth the collatoral bullshit. Maybe after the bubble bursts and people get bored of coding without actually understanding what is going on more sane usage can happen...

That fits epic more.

"It costs 400.000 dollars to vibe code for 12' seconds."

before that it was internet explorer with a green tint

Yeah and it's getting even trashier. UE6 will go all in on vibe coding. I dubbed it SlopEngine6, cause that is what it will be.

Potatoes aren't fruits, they're really soft rocks.

You now accurately understand how fucking stupid almost all tech* CEOs and Department Heads actually are.

*well actually any kind of CEO or senior management that bought into the "AI is magic! We don't have to manage people or workflows anymore!" flavor of AI psychosis.

These people are largely incompetent buffoons with huge egos, who hate doing actual work, but must live a life like a baron of a medieval dominion, to sate their crushing need to feel special.

soft rock is what i put on to get my partner in the mood. hope this helps!

Since potatoes are mainly long chain carbs, they are actually not a fruit but a cereal/grain.

It's just so wild to admit that "we vibed it". That feels so unprofessional, wtf.

It was already in the Steam Client beta, improving performance of your application is just something you always look to do. It was in no way a response or anything to Epic Games.

Oh my god that is an actual quote, the very first line on their blog post.

The marketing team didn't get the memo that "vibe coding" is not a positive thing.

They're the same family, if you let a potato plant flower and bear fruits it'll have little cherry tomatoes looking fruits. Haven't tried eating that though. And it's harder to grow from seeds

It is unprofessional.

These clowns only know how to act at 'professional', not actually be it. They are craven, the only thing that matters to them is power.

These are the same kind of people as in the Epstein files. We can see their casual flippance, their plotting, their neuroses, their goddamned constant spelling errors.

They're just fucked up idiots that people do not say "No" to!

Marketing team? I think you mean "Gemini, write a short press release that makes our AI generated launcher look better than Steam".