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But now they can now move so fast that nobody has a realistic chance to stop them before the damage compounds. They get into a much deeper mess much faster.

I would guess that low-volume scraping is probably much less likely to cause problems.

How is it a spam post? It is just an amateur blog post about a small automation experiment. I am not selling anything or promoting a tool.

This is also why old accounts have value. A new account doing anything unusual looks suspicious immediately. A 10yo account with normal history and real usage would probably be much less likely to get…

Yeah, fair point. I overstated that part. I’ve edited it to focus more on the actual problem: the bot starts with a large visual search space and has to narrow it down to a small target. Thanks for th…

The mouse might be one signal but Instagram is almost certainly looking at way more than that and feed it to some ML-based abuse detection. They likely have entire teams working on this, plus adversar…

Have you tried to post with something like Buffer or Hootsuite?

Yeah, it could definitely be used badly and there is a thin line between account management and growth-bot spam. But that is part of what makes it interesting to me. Instagram has real anti-abuse syst…

I mean it is right there at the beginning: > “I went from 4-5 parallel branches down to 2, sometimes just one. […] I had to stop to think things through.” Where do you see me drunk on power here? M…

My bet isn't against progress. It is against magical timelines peddled by those with VC incentives. I don't want to build a career on hype, sprinkled with "maybe", "could"…

This feels like a comment shot from the hip. You fundamentally misread my argument while proving my core point. You crystallised the disconnect yourself: "with the help of Claude." The artic…

You're describing exactly what I distinguish as legitimate AI use, not vibe coding. You're an experienced dev who understands your system deeply, making architectural decisions ("no loc…

Maybe my analogy is off, but I've been thinking of it like high-end restaurants not being threatened by fast food chains. I'm trying to understand what I'm missing here. You describe th…

Minimum wage jobs pay low wages because a large number of people can do them. This means that if you work a minimum wage job, you're not just competing with others in your field. You're comp…

You're the perfect target audience for vibe coding.

According to Wikipedia, vibe coding is "fully giving in to the vibes, embracing exponentials, and forgetting that the code even exists" and "If an LLM wrote every line of your code, but…

I have no issues with that and I made it very clear. Vibe coding for non-technical people is great.

This is the "AI soon becomes good enough" scenario. Where is the version of this story where retail clerks enthusiastically learned the UPC scanner system and then leveraged that knowledge i…

I know what the code should be doing. But it's not doing it. Now I have to deep dive into a codebase that's far less familiar to me than if I'd written it. This isn't usually such…

Fair enough. I went back and forth on whether to include it. I kept it anyway because I thought it was a funny way to capture what I feel vibe coding is: just keep rerolling until I get what we want. …

There's no way to know for sure. If there was, we wouldn't be having this conversation. But I'm trying to make an educated guess. I read the news: AI is taking over and we'll soon …

Just to be clear, I don't think there's anything fundamentaly wrong with using AI to write code. But just to make sure I got this right, I looked it up on Wikipedia: > "Karpathy desc…

I'm not sure I understand. Do you mean that overtime some people will develop intuition for the "right vibes" and it won't be replicable by others or computers?

I do agree that I should take responsibility for my work. This is why I experimented on a small side project with a limited user base instead of my main app, which generates my income. What really sol…

That's a lot of "if" to bet my career on. I can't see a situation where I can do most of my work using LLMs and retain my coding skills. I can see it with people who used to be gre…

We're not taking 6 months off. We take a conservative approach. We keep doing our job and get better at it (with the help of AI too). The vibe coders aren't leaving us in the dust. They'…

I'll accept this criticism. I've only done it for a month or so. That said, I do feel confident that, after reading plenty of online articles, I have learnt 80% of AI coding skills. I config…

How can I do that if I'm vibe coding and don't even know what a "tight abstractions" looks like?