Re:Humble Bundle just killed most of their security through ...
by alwa on Thursday November 12, 2026 @04:06AM
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I have noticed that the code harness is extremely willing to run me into extreme levels of decisionmaking detail if I ask it to defer substantive decisions to me. And then, for each answer, it’s happy to dispatch (token-gobbling, but often insightful) subagents to study the repercussions and argue back with me. To nitpick intersections between my decisions, my stated core principles, and the standing rules for the project. And to point me at standards to fill in the gaps in my understanding.
It’s exhausting, but so often, my mush-brain has to concede that it has a point.
On any given day, several hundred decisions in to what I’d imagined would be a sensitive but straightforward spec, I’m keenly tempted to just accept its default judgements…
By now, I’ve encountered the whole of all 3 official bodies’ standards in anger. For sure that’s not the same as real understanding or hard-earned experience. But I sure understand the formalities of the problem space a hell of a lot better than I did when I started this particular vibe coding adventure.
Contrast with my young friend whose approach was “make me a first person shooter, in Los Angeles, I want {some kind of weapon} and cars, make it super polished and fun”. And his follow-ups along the lines of “I don’t care, make it awesome, whatever’s most awesome.” I hate to say he’s holding it wrong (as he did get some sort of Unity/Godot thing out of it), but… does my neuroticism elevate my LLM-hectored coding out of “vibe” territory?
It’s exhausting, but so often, my mush-brain has to concede that it has a point.
On any given day, several hundred decisions in to what I’d imagined would be a sensitive but straightforward spec, I’m keenly tempted to just accept its default judgements…
By now, I’ve encountered the whole of all 3 official bodies’ standards in anger. For sure that’s not the same as real understanding or hard-earned experience. But I sure understand the formalities of the problem space a hell of a lot better than I did when I started this particular vibe coding adventure.
Contrast with my young friend whose approach was “make me a first person shooter, in Los Angeles, I want {some kind of weapon} and cars, make it super polished and fun”. And his follow-ups along the lines of “I don’t care, make it awesome, whatever’s most awesome.” I hate to say he’s holding it wrong (as he did get some sort of Unity/Godot thing out of it), but… does my neuroticism elevate my LLM-hectored coding out of “vibe” territory?