I Am Not a Reverse Centaur

Re:I Am Not a Reverse Centaur by surgical_fire on Friday June 12, 2026 @03:10PM (#48508222)

> I hope we can think about some answers and not get tribal though because this is really a huge problem and also a huge opportunity and so a minor reminder that there is a baby in that bathwater?

I think no answers are needed.

If anyone can build the software they need, no ecosystem will be needed. There will be no maintainers because no one will be using his thing.

If it makes sense (economical, but no limited to it), then it will progress in that direction. If it makes no sense it is a fad that eventually dies out.

There may or may not be a baby in the bathwater. In truth nothing in this bathtub matter too much.

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Re:I Am Not a Reverse Centaur by skybrian on Friday June 12, 2026 @03:31PM (#48508480)

I think this makes sense for apps, but the apps will still need infrastructure and common protocols to interoperate. It still won’t make sense to implement your own cryptography.

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Re:I Am Not a Reverse Centaur by surgical_fire on Friday June 12, 2026 @04:53PM (#48509327)

Why not?

If you can vibecode your app, you can vibecode your cryptography as well.

You may object to it but that, too, would be elitism. And the person vibecoding has no idea why proper cryptography matters anyway. Or why proper anything matters.

This is the ultimate realization of "my ignorance is as good as your knowledge".

I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing.

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Re:I Am Not a Reverse Centaur by skybrian on Friday June 12, 2026 @05:38PM (#48509720)

Because doing enough security reviews to remove all the security bugs gets expensive, and if you use well-reviewed code, it's already been done.

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