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Vibe coding is the gamification of programming

2025-06-19 17:22:05.899219+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Reg Braithwaite 🍓 @raganwald@social.bau-ha.us

While the bartender serves us our chaser, consider the slot machine business. Were there no regulations, slot machines would not be random. They would use sophisticated machine learning—AI of sorts—to determine when a player tires of losing and dole out the absolute minimum “win” to keep them playing.

Cameras, microphones and other sensors would monitor breathing, heartbeat, posture, facial expressions, everything.

We know this to be true: That’s how the computer game industry works.

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Vibe coding consists of pulling handles in various ways hoping for a win in the form of the AI appearing to write the program you desire. The actual mechanism is opaque, so you keep pulling the handle hoping to learn what to do.

But inevitably, some VP of Growth will write an all-hands email ordering the company to optimize for number of pulls of the handle rather than for your profitable payoff.

Welcome back to the slots.

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