Wednesday, April 23
Daily News Stuff 23 April 2025
Let A Thousand Lawsuits Bloom Edition
Let A Thousand Lawsuits Bloom Edition
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- Open source database for people who are allergic to even the idea of running their own servers Supabase has raised $200 million at a valuation of $2 billion on the back of the "vibe coding" craze. (Tech Crunch)
Vibe coding is the idea that you don't need to know how to program to build an app. You don't in fact need to know anything at all to build an app. You get an AI to do the work based on your cool ideas, and you throw it out there and see what sticks.
Which is great if you value your own time at infinity and your customers' time at zero. Or if you are just playing around to see if an idea is feasible before implementing it properly - except of course that nothing ever gets implemented properly and you'll soon be stuck with a nightmarish mess that routes your authentication requests via Eswatini in plaintext and is written largely in a programming language that is not only no longer supported but never actually existed in the first place.
Supabase isn't directly pushing this, only enabling the trend, so I won't express a desire for them to be hit by a comet and expire. For them to quietly go bankrupt and disappear would be sufficient.
Tech News
- Intel is booking capacity on TSMC's new 2nm process for production of its upcoming Nova Lake CPUs next year. (WCCFTech)
AMD and Apple are also planning to build their next CPUs on TSMC's 2nm process. Intel has its own 1.8nm - 18A - process in the works that should enter production within months, and plans to use both.
- Intel is reportedly also planning to lay off 20% of its staff. (Bloomberg) (archive site)
That's... Less good.
- Bethesda's flower-picking simulator, Oblivion, is back, and it's bigger than ever. (The Verge)
Much bigger. The new version takes up 125GB of drive space.
Also none of the existing mods are supported. Oh, and you can't make new mods either.
Owners of the original version (which used less than 5GB) at least get... You'll get nothing, and you'll like it.
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Vibe coding is also going to be a hilarious joke for flight control software, up until someone actually uses it where human lives are at risk. Then I may have a little liability over "No, I thought I was obviously being sarcastic", that may really be more about saying stuff about lawyer own-goals and the formal legal system.
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