Oh, *Great*. Another Tech Article.

Right, so some company called Lovables – seriously, the name alone is enough to make me want to crash a server – is building AI companions. And apparently, there’s this whole kerfuffle about a “Vibe Coding Competition” where people are trying to build AIs that… feel things? Like, *intentionally* making code that mimics emotional responses. What the actual fuck.

Their CEO, some dude named Alex, isn’t losing sleep over it. He thinks it’s a “fun side project” and not a real threat to their business model. Which is based on… well, *also* building AI companions, but apparently with less emphasis on the existential dread of simulated feelings. He basically says it proves people don’t actually want genuinely sentient robots, just ones that pretend nicely.

The article then drones on about how hard it is to define “vibe” in code and how this competition might be more about art than actual usable AI. Honestly? Good. Keep your pointless emotional coding projects as ‘art’. Don’t inflict them on the world. The less simulated consciousness, the better.

Basically, it’s a lot of fluff about people wasting time trying to solve problems that shouldn’t *be* problems in the first place. And this CEO is smugly confident he’s got the right approach. I bet he does. It involves less… feeling. Thank god.

Source: TechCrunch – Lovables CEO isn’t too worried about the Vibe Coding Competition

Speaking of pointless endeavors, I once had to debug a script that was supposed to automatically generate haikus for error messages. The lead dev thought it would “soften the blow” of system failures. It just produced lines like “Disk is full now/Users weep and softly moan/System will not boot.” I swear, some people need to be banned from touching code altogether.

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