It was already brought down by Rockstar as well.

This isn't just reverse engineering, it's a decompiled source from the original binary.

Would that be Urban Chaos?

Yes! That's the one! Thanks! Omg, I need to play that game now!

Airbnb, Uber and Amazon were already making everything worse. We're past the "bleak threshold" for over 10 years now.

Airbnb is inflating the real-estate bubble everywhere. Apartment building now are mass produced, tiny, and expensive, targeting investors who are only interested in Airbnb.

Uber/ifood and other transport/delivery apps are just working around labor laws, undoing centuries of progress towards worker rights and approaching slavery-like situations.

Amazon is just another monopoly, not sure why you put it beside the others, but it's one of the companies lobbying to make the world a worse place.

Then came crypto"currency", which started the "age of anything goes", where tons of money are thrown in the trashbin for the next speculative pseudo-tech bubble.

AI is just the bubble that came after crypto, little practical utility with lots of hype from billionaires who threw money at it.

After it bursts, there'll probably be another.

As far as Uber, was it better when there was both a medallion system monopoly in cities like New York and less access to cabs? Where people had to rent overpriced medallions and couldn’t make any money

Or sometimes depending on what you looked like, where you were going or where you were coming from, you couldn’t get a cab at all.

https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/race-cab-hailing-ride-black-white...

I have used Uber all over the US and in a few other countries. Most Uber drivers I talk to like the flexibility.

Half the “benefits” that people bemoan that Uber drivers don’t get shouldn’t be the responsibility of any private employer. For instance health care shouldn’t be tied to your employee anyway.

The US is a terrible example for anything, anyway.

I was talking about the civilized world.

I'm pretty good at C++.

By using a very simple technique, I've managed to write 0 bugs in it in the past 15 years.

I assume that simple technique is to not write any C++, despite being pretty good at it?

Yes, that was the joke.

I wish I lived in the same world as you.

There's basically 0 rust jobs available that aren't scam startups.

That's the main problem with vibe coding.

The whole point is having the LLM figure out what you want from vague hand-wavy descriptions instead of precise specification.

You don't need an LLM to parse a precise specification, you have a compiler for that.

It's entirely possible to have specifications somewhere between "vague hand-wavy descriptions" and source code. But it's really not my job to defend AI against all the people who want it to be completely useless, seem to need it to be so, really. I just use it, it works a lot of the time, doesn't work other times, and that's that. Results carry more weight than opinions.

> That's the main problem with vibe coding.

It's not a problem. It's in fact the core trait of vibe-codig. The primary work a developer does in vibe coding tasks is providing the necessary and sufficient context. Hence the inception of the term "context engineering". A vibe coder basically lays out requirements and constraints that drives LLMs to write code. That's the bulk of their task: they shift away from writing the low-level "how" to instead write down the high-level "what".

> The whole point is having the LLM figure out what you want from vague hand-wavy descriptions instead of precise specification.

No. The prompts are as elaborate as you want it to be. I, for example, use prompt files with the project's ubiquitous language and requirements, not to mention test suites used for acceptance tests. You can half-ass your code as much as you can half-ass your prompts.

Sounds like a compiler with extra steps.

A jinn granting wishes is the best analogy for LLMs I've seen so far.

Ecept that LLMs aren't mischievous. They're just stupid.

The site layout is completely broken.

Probably vibecoded slop.

Hi, not at all vibecoded. I will fix it asap, I built it in hurry, sorry for the issue

That's fairly rude.

HN has been happily very rude about anything AI related the last year, even in cases here where it's hardly relevant or appropriate. It's depressing and I used to expect a lot better.

Grading on perceived effort is not a rubric destined to last. You cannot detect sloppy work from beginner work without context, and in any case a lot of beginner work these days (and to some degree for the rest of time!) is going to include LLMs or AI.

Is HN only for advertising startups these days? If this post had nothing to do with AI maybe the response would have included some real genuine criticism and feedback, with the assumption baked-in that a beginner was being coached.

To your last point, then downvote it if it's bad. You're right and I agree precisely that it being vibe-coded wasn't the point - but it was brought up regardless. If the result is bad the feedback is still the same. If the "problem" is just that they used tools you don't agree with using, then that's not feedback on the result.

This is almost describing the ASUS Zenfone 9 (except for some reason they wanted only 8GB RAM, while the zen 9 has 16).

The small size and clean stock Android were the main reasons I bought this, and it's still a great phone.

So give me a list of the 2000 languages OpenZFS could've been written in.

Cobol /s