Vibe-coded shops, and hackable Flock cameras

Now, chums, chums, there are important questions to be asked of this week's guest, Mr. Dave Bittner.

I won't beat around the bush, Dave.

How do you feel about crusty socks? How do I feel about Yes, how do you feel about them? I try to avoid them whenever possible.

You're not growing any in Shea Bittner? No, no, no.

When I was a teenager, I think I had issues with crusty socks, but it's been a while.

I imagine they are pretty fresh and clean, those beautiful feet of yours these days.

I'm asking because this week, somewhere in Auckland, New Zealand, there is a convenience store that briefly was selling a pair of crusty socks on its website.

And that wasn't all they were selling.

They were also selling a rather divine Princess Diana commemorative plate.

Yeah.

And if you were quick, you could also have bought all of New Zealand's national parks.

They were being sold to the highest bidder as well.

Wow.

Now, this wasn't some marketing stunt.

This wasn't a flea market with any old bric-a-brac and odds and sods and national parks and the like.

Instead, this particular store had made a bit of an error.

When it built its website, it had used something called Base44.

And Base44 is a vibe coding platform owned by Wix, one of those places where they sort of roll your own website.

You can go to it and out the other end of the mixer.

welcome a brand new website dave have you ever vibe coded at all it's very popular these days the

closest i have come to vibe coding was i asked chat gpt to create a version of pong in basic for the trs80 color computer and did

it work it did yeah yeah i mean it was slow but it worked i'd rather approve of that what do you think of the idea of vibe coding generally

Um, I think at this point it's unavoidable.

I think it's out of the box and there's no putting it back in there.

But the people I know who are professional developers, many of them say that their job has shifted from actually being a developer to being a supervisor of the AI that's actually doing the coder.