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https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250807-openai-releases-chatgpt-5-as-ai-race-accelerates

OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT-5 on Thursday, describing it as a
major leap forward in artificial intelligence, with enhanced
abilities in reasoning, task automation, and coding. The
new model is being rolled out free to all users, as the
company continues to compete globally in the rapidly evolving
AI race.

. . .

It apparently can do what's sometimes called
"vibe coding" - ie the pointy-haired boss
just has a conversation with it, describes
what he wants the application to do, and
Chat will write it ('well enough' I suppose).
The value/salaries of human coders, outside
the AI realm) will soon plunge. The boss
always hated those weirdos anyhow ...

There have been discussions here and elsewhere
about 'modular' - almost 'Lego' - approaches
to programming. You take a collection of vetted
functional modules and splice them together to
achieve the desired effect. Objects have many
properties and vars ... you just access the
ones you need for the task at hand.
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On Thu, 7 Aug 2025 18:11:21 -0400, c186282 wrote:

It apparently can do what's sometimes called "vibe coding" - ie the
pointy-haired boss just has a conversation with it, describes what he
wants the application to do, and Chat will write it ('well enough' I
suppose).
The value/salaries of human coders, outside the AI realm) will soon
plunge. The boss always hated those weirdos anyhow ...

https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/08/after-using-chatgpt-man-swaps-his- salt-for-sodium-bromide-and-suffers-psychosis/

Let the Darwin Awards begin... I got s vibe about vibe programming and it ain't a good one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eab_beh07HU
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On 8/7/25 8:07 PM, rbowman wrote:

On Thu, 7 Aug 2025 18:11:21 -0400, c186282 wrote:

It apparently can do what's sometimes called "vibe coding" - ie the
pointy-haired boss just has a conversation with it, describes what he
wants the application to do, and Chat will write it ('well enough' I
suppose).
The value/salaries of human coders, outside the AI realm) will soon
plunge. The boss always hated those weirdos anyhow ...

https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/08/after-using-chatgpt-man-swaps-his- salt-for-sodium-bromide-and-suffers-psychosis/

Not surprising ... NaBr is no sub for NaCl ! It used
to be used as a mild tranquilizer, hence the old terms
"a bromide" or "take a bromide". High amounts, yea,
surely toxic.

Let the Darwin Awards begin... I got s vibe about vibe programming and it ain't a good one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eab_beh07HU

I expect the created software to be very inefficient
and not very secure - to start with. It won't always
be funny stuff as it will find its way into military,
major utilities, chem plants, hospitals, govt and
banking.

However it WILL get better. CHAT-6 will probably have
written much of its own code ....

THEN it gets interesting :-)

The bosses BADLY want to get rid of the pesky, annoying,
expensive, whiny, unionizing HUMANS - esp those damned
code people who keep saying why you can't get there
from here.
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On Thu, 7 Aug 2025 21:16:37 -0400, c186282 wrote:

The bosses BADLY want to get rid of the pesky, annoying,
expensive, whiny, unionizing HUMANS - esp those damned code people
who keep saying why you can't get there from here.

I can't wait. I wasn't a negative nelly but I thought it was part of my
job description to inform my boss that a proposal was a deep, dark rabbit
hole we didn't want to go down. Sometimes he listened. The biggest problem
was the company thinking it was a lion when it really was a house cat
trying to catch a wildebeest. One of the competitors realized it was a
house cat, focused on mice, and became a very well fed house cat.
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