It's fiction, so it'll have differences from reality.
In speulative fiction, the only rule is to make it interesting for whoever consuming it.
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when you code an actual AI like Jarvis, it's ok to vibe code with it for the rest of your days
To be fair, if our AI was as capable as his AI vibe coding would be viable.
This meme made me feel better about myself. Been copy pasting from Stack overflow for more than a decade, vibe coding was a real step up for me.
Not quite there yet, still waiting on the holographic AI hardware design. Coming soon I hear.
A vibe programmer that built a palm-sized fusion reactor in a cave over the course of 3 months with a single companion? Perfectly respectable to me. And he probably made his own AI too :)
I've always imagined peak programming as building up from low level languages, putting on some layers of abstraction and automatization written by yourself, and end up writing some trivial commands to produce very interesting outputs... Who knows? Maybe throwing around some holograms and voice-commands asking for nonsense. It doesn't get much more vibey than that.
Programming in vim and emacs does look like that lol.
A vibe programmer that built a palm-sized fusion reactor in a cave over the course of 3 months with a single companion
With a box o scraps!
He leaves out that the "box of scraps" was essentially a complete selection of all the parts used by his company to make their weapons. He was basically given a couple each of every Lego set ever (already assembled !) and then tore them apart to make one big thing. It's impressive, but it's not like he reinvented modern technology from scratch. I'd call that "vibe engineering" at worst.
The more we talk about things the greater chance it becomes the norm. What's this tony? Never heard of him. Vibe coding? Never heard of it and I don't think I would be interested. Moving on.
Everything in the Marvel Universe is just wizards. Nobody is coding. Nobody is engineering. Nobody is doing anything more technical than "Hit him with a bigger rock".
Tony is just a wizard doing wizard shit in stylized techno-pastiche.
Yeah, Tony was capable of doing whatever the writers wrote him to be capable of, just like every other fictional character. And the writers wrote him doing it in a manner similar to the "programming" in Swordfish or the tech work in NCIS (or whatever show it was that had multiple people typing on one keyboard at the same time). As in difficult to tell if they had any understanding of it at all, sensationalised it for entertainment purposes, deliberately made it unlike any real programming to troll people who do understand programming, or some combination of all those.
MCU science might as well just be another school of magic. Especially when Tony's suit could shapeshift and convert between matter and energy because of some quantum mumbo jumbo. He just cast a quantum spell on it.
Also every movie had multiple impacts in that iron suit that should have been worse for him than most car crashes.
I mean, I don't really object to the premise of the character - Batman-like super genius who stacks the deck in his favor by building a bunch of cool gadgets to get him out of tight spots. But I agree, its far more fun to see a character like Tony run up against the limits of his gadgetry than to hand him the Super Science "I Win Button" and wait until the last five minutes of the show to press it.
Don't get me wrong, it's decent entertainment. It's just disconnected from any kind of scientific or technical reality and a part of me is rolling my eyes for a lot of it. And maybe a bit frustrated because I like thinking about things and analyzing and problem solving. I prefer hard magic systems over soft magic ones because there's no point in thinking about soft magic systems because they just do whatever the plot calls for when it calls for it while hard magic systems have to build up to it and need to be clever to surprise viewers.
Tony uses a soft technology system that defies thought.
A sufficiently advanced technology even
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