Artificial
Tenfold: Celebrating 10 Years of Ink & Switch
June 2026
Mimi Reyburn
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Once upon a time in march 2026<br>mimihehe that event was interesting - exciting starts<br>but I do find it a bit weird when people say "The Al did this", "the robot told me" and "it works with the Humans"<br>Jess's talk was most interesting to me<br>mimi Jess's talk was most interesting to mecheeyes LOVED this, did i tell you i asked her to submit a demo<br>some days pass<br>mimiit happened again! "Claude did this", "me and Claude"<br>is everyone always consciously making a little joke when they say it?<br>also feels a bit freaky when people add claude as a collaborator to their repo on github<br>Claude is not a person. Right?<br>cheeyeah i really don't like it, but i don't know why yet<br>it gives me the gooey goosebumps
mimi is everyone always consciously making a little joke when they say it? cheei don't think so<br>mimi also feels a bit freaky when people add claude as a collaborator to their repo on githubcheei think the claude program does this automatically when you use it to commit code. and i think github when you use copilot?<br>they add a tag that says "Co-authored by:" which... it's weird to hear "author" about an llm<br>mimi it happened again! "Claude did this", "me and Claude"cheefor me it's the "claude chose" and "claude decided"<br>and, like, i'm guilty of this myself. and i also say "the kettle doesn't wanna fuckin boil" but.. it's certainly different when the machine was designed to behave like a person and is sold as a person replacement<br>right?<br>it's different when it has the aesthetic of a conscious thing
we've learned over the past few decades to make deep meaningful connections with people entirely online, and these things emulate that very communication style<br>another thing: the length of a piece of writing used to be something of a signal. it took at least as long to write those words as the length of it, and if it's good writing then way way longer<br>used to be if someone sent me 20 paragraphs of text it was almost certainly worth reading, because even if it was bad it would be interesting<br>because this mfer just wrote 20 paragraphs<br>but now if something's long i tune out in anticipation. and even aesthetics long associated with effort (careful formatting, —, ;, proper capitalization) also make me wary now<br>the LLMs are getting better and better at generating things that seem right at first blush, but have subtle mistakes the kind a person never makes<br>days go by<br>mimii'm ruined.
since we've started talking about this, nearly all discussion on the internet and so many tech events has become really hard to hear.
we should write something💯1<br>another day<br>cheei went to an event last night<br>and<br>um<br>we need to write something<br>mimi and chee yap in a call for 3 hours
mimiquick aside, i think it's ok if vibe coding = coding.<br>code is a tool for building that just got way easier (and way lower quality).<br>mimiIt does make me sad for people who love code as a craft. Coming up with beautiful clever solutions to code problems is the biggest joy of coding outside of the output itself. It feels like solving a cryptic crossword or making a divine move in the board game, Go, but DeepMind's model AlphaGo beats you, and then you, the world champion in Go, proceed to give up the game for good.<br>mimiBut yeah, let's all drop the word "vibe"<br>cheethere is still code that i would want to write by hand. things with lots of users, where having a shared understanding of what is actually happening at the point the code touches the computer is very important. i'm 100% with you though for code that is to build something for yourself, or a small group of people, or where the idea is more important than the code<br>cheebut maybe i'm desperately clinging on to my ancient skills and technology like knitting machine, ipod and wood<br>cheei still think it's inhumane for a person to read llm generated code<br>cheeand there are many cases when the material reality of where the code touches the machine really matters<br>mimidid that sound like I hate arts subjects? because i promise i don't! i only mean they often get hate for being "easy" because they're not maths. I LIKE ARTS SUBJECTS.
mimiis vibe coding = coding now?<br>cheeyeah, it's one kind of coding i think<br>is there sometimes something self-deprecating when people say "vibecoding"? as well as alienating themselves from the responsibilities of their own actions<br>is there also something, like..<br>like when {redacted} said "oh i don't have standing to talk about any of this" i thought "what? that's crazy - you built it!" and then they added "i just vibecoded it"<br>maybe there's also an element of that too? like feeling like you didn't really make it? somehow?<br>mimiyes! that's the moment<br>that is the pinpoint of what im talking about<br>cheetwo separate effects?<br>1 of people abdicating responsibility<br>and 1 of people feeling like they aren't really a maker ?<br>one of these is "oh no" and the other is "pat pat" and they're both important to...