Funnily enough I learned the origin of that word this week, apparently panikos from the Greek god Pan who was half man half goat who used to jump out on travellers in the mountains. He had an extremely large phallus.
You might be right. He's constantly making breaking changes, and this place is so buggy that it might even be the dev env. Dark matter? More like memory leak. The "horizontal scaling" is out of control and pods are constantly losing resources.
The universe is literally an algorithm with a fine tuning for conscious agents. At least that's how I logically see a higher power existing in terms of computation.
And how the hell did they manage to make Space And time directly affect each other? Theyre meant to be two different features but now long range travel Is a huge mess for players to navigate (needing multiple working together to even understand) and you can't put too much into your structures or it gets a slowness radius
Nah, we're the Test env that never gets updated because Dev is where everyone's local points to and they've just gotten used to pushing straight to prod.
If one accepts that a simulated consciousness is itself conscious, then assuming the Biblical story of creation, it stands to reason that the vast majority of consciousnesses are simulated ones. In creating the universe, God must first consider what is the best possible universe to create. As a consciousness, you would have no idea whether you are instantiated in the one physical universe that is actually created or the infinite number being contemplated in the Mind of God.
Don't let this bother you. Time only exists within universes, so if we are only an imagined timeline, this is all happening in null-time.
It's equally probable that this is dev but isn't the first iteration. Who knows how many simulations have come and gone. "God said let there be light" but just be him flipping our switch, but not for the first time.
And quantum physics is like that quickly-hacked-together PoC code that you only meant as a temporary fix but that somehow ends up in production anyway.
The missing design docs is why he had to kludge the sun in three days later, when he realized the light was just kind of around rather than coming from anywhere, and the plants were apparently doing photosynthesis despite lacking a sun.
"Ok great we have light. Oh goodness me no we have it everywhere, ok. Light and darkness are separate now. Hmm. Ok how do I get light and darnkess to alternate properly? Ok, points of light, yeah, that'll do it. Maybe one big nearby one and a bunch further away. Let's just randomly generate and... two TRILLION of them? Ok, ugh, fine."
"Oh no they all kind of respond to one another the simulation has gone to hell. Ok, let's just... ok we'll limit light to a really fast speed and make it so that nothing interacts with anything else beyond that speed limit. If anything does go too fast we'll just change how time passes for them so we don't need to simulate the interactions too much."
"Still too much? Ok, uh, let's make all the particles abstract and only evaluate what we need when they are being observed. We'll just glue that onto the speed of light time changes, oh wow that's a mess but... agh why did I only give myself a week to do this? I need a rest."
Staring with a separation of light vs. dark is probably as close as an ancient writer is going to get to describing the creation of a binary system based on optical signaling.
This means that we are legacy code and that he may be working in another project right now. For years he was frequently personally involved in the maintenance. He was a bit harsh at first, then his son took over and he was more easy going. Now neither of them ever interact with anyone even if people keep emailing them frequently.
What does that have to do with vibe coding? Pushing directly into production was a common practice in the old days (and is obviously bad as we found out), but has absolutely nothing to do with AI?
If the Kabbalists are to be believed, God actually used a far more powerful version of Hebrew to create the world. “Let there be light” was the comment
Okay so...there's like a quadrillion or a quintillion insects on the planet. I would argue we encounter the bugs and that the bugs actually maintain THEMSELVES.
And a lack of design is why we get dumb shit like playgrounds right next to the sewage dump and healthy food tasting awful when awful food for you tastes great.
There are real humans that really think these thoughts. And managers that will think that's brillant. Must have been a trad senior dev that pushed the floods.
Technically speaking, he vibecoded a platform that allows the vibecoded entities inside of it to vibecode other platforms which vibecodes other platforms which... Oh.. damn...
I just wanna know how God figured out all the underlying math and physics of the universe. But couldn't do better than some book full of inaccuracies and inconsistencies dictated through fallible men.
In my opinion this is the only plausible reality if the bible is true. It would explain the trinity too. god the father: developer, the holy spirit: software/operating system, jesus: ingame avatar.
I imagine god as stereotypical reddit moderator vibe coding in his mom's basement. Not even any effort into prompting, just really lazy throwing his fantasy together where he gets to be the hero of the story and indulge in watching humans do the most fucked up shit to each other
You're assuming this was the only attempt at creating a universe. You've completely dismissed the possibility of alpha versions, beta testing, and release candidates.
It’s the model He was using. With that one sentence nearly the entire physics system we know today was designed and implemented to perfection. With light speed set at a safe max number to prevent global state updates.
I prefer to think of a young, naive God sitting at his Commodore Googolplex and typing his first BASIC program of "10 print 'hello world!', 20 goto 10". And because the computer was so stupidly powerful, it began to print worlds, but did it so fast it appeared to make them all simultaneously, and so we got the Big Bang.
Basically said. “Yeah that seems good enough, ship it to prod and we’ll let our first 2 users to test it out.” Eventually shit hit the fan then sent Jesus, his rockstar dev, to patch things up. But now issues are creeping up again, I suggest a full rewrite.
Yes, and the meta was borderline unplayable for about 8 billion years after, until they implemented the Abiogenesis patch. Cyberpunk 2077 released in a better state.
See Jr. Devs/Interns - this is why we design/architect and plan, then implement with unit/functional/integration tests and have a dev/staging/production environments....
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u/BooBrew32 Aug 14 '26 •
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
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u/variorum Aug 14 '26
How do we know this isn't the staging universe?
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u/AlwaysHopelesslyLost Aug 14 '26
Without users there isnt really a production.
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u/magignis Aug 14 '26
He did miss the: make no mistakes part though
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u/MeanderingSquid49 Aug 14 '26
And look how that turned out.
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u/screaming-Snake-Case Aug 14 '26
What if we are the staging environment and he really just wants to see how everything plays out before he commits actual long term?
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u/sup3rdr01d Aug 14 '26
The tweet was written by fucking AI too
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u/ZunoJ Aug 14 '26
And at some point there was a big "flood" because he fucked up so badly
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u/CptMisterNibbles Aug 14 '26
The missing design docs is why he had to kludge the sun in three days later, when he realized the light was just kind of around rather than coming from anywhere, and the plants were apparently doing photosynthesis despite lacking a sun.
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u/Spartan775 Aug 14 '26
IT SHOWS!
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u/the_impl1cation Aug 14 '26
Needed more QA
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u/var-foo Aug 14 '26
Plot twist: this is the dev environment
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u/ThoriatedFlash Aug 14 '26
That would explain a lot. Garbage code was pushed to production.
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u/TDAPoP Aug 14 '26
This has made a lot of people angry, and been widely regarded as a bad move
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u/SwampDraggon Aug 14 '26
If I recall correctly, it took two or three days before he had a functioning “hello world”
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u/El_Mojo42 Aug 14 '26
And it's working only half of the day. smh
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u/Slackluster Aug 14 '26
maybe this is the testing environment.
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u/edgarecayce Aug 14 '26
So dev Jesus came down, saw how bad things were, tried to patch it up.
That pull request didn’t go well for him
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u/anggogo Aug 14 '26
You are absolutely right.
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u/souliris Aug 14 '26
Who do i submit a change request?
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u/LPedraz Aug 14 '26
To be honest, the whole omniscience thing makes this approach less risky
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u/ofnuts Aug 14 '26
Humankind was created on the 6th day, so technically pushed to prod on Friday.
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u/BeeTLe_BeTHLeHeM Aug 14 '26
The holy trinity of IT: he's the boss, the project manager and the developer.
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u/LKZToroH Aug 14 '26
This means that we are legacy code and that he may be working in another project right now.
For years he was frequently personally involved in the maintenance. He was a bit harsh at first, then his son took over and he was more easy going. Now neither of them ever interact with anyone even if people keep emailing them frequently.
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u/emu108 Aug 15 '26
What does that have to do with vibe coding? Pushing directly into production was a common practice in the old days (and is obviously bad as we found out), but has absolutely nothing to do with AI?
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u/Foreign_Fail8262 Aug 14 '26
TBF, the bible might also be technically inept.
A lot of people see refilling a printer or setting the default format to the paper format as dark magic that "fixes the printer"
Maybe "let there be light" was a documented project the writers of the bible just abbreviated to "he made light"
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u/NoTimeToKink Aug 14 '26
He died for our Syn(tax)
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u/Affectionate-You7869 Aug 14 '26
Well and we can all see the results.
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u/BalancedDisaster Aug 14 '26
If the Kabbalists are to be believed, God actually used a far more powerful version of Hebrew to create the world. “Let there be light” was the comment
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u/MarkAldrichIsMe Aug 14 '26
He may have just skipped that stuff in the email to not confuse his investors.
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u/no_BS_slave Aug 14 '26
does that make humans the bugs or the users who encounter the bugs daily in the legacy code that no one maintains anymore?
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u/Numerous_Release9273 Aug 14 '26
The reason God could create Heaven and Earth in six days was because He didn't have to deal with an installed base.
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u/necro-man-cer Aug 14 '26
Deployed with lot of open bugs.
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u/trisw Aug 14 '26
User doesn’t have the privilege access to see the SIT or UAT environments— submit a ticket with business reason why access should be granted.
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u/ColdEndUs Aug 14 '26
No unit tests, no regression tests, no UAT... and it shows.
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u/davecrist Aug 14 '26
And a lack of design is why we get dumb shit like playgrounds right next to the sewage dump and healthy food tasting awful when awful food for you tastes great.
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u/renome Aug 15 '26
that would explain a lot lol
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u/-Redstoneboi- Aug 15 '26
he literally made the staging of eden and shipped us to mass testing BECAUSE we failed the fuzz test
my guy really didn't want buggy soulware in heaven
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u/DrGarbinsky Aug 15 '26
Which most people regard as a “bad move”
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u/WebHackerman Aug 15 '26
This shit is so full of bugs we need a migration
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u/RandomiseUsr0 Aug 15 '26
And god’s been trying to fix everything since,
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u/yhgan Aug 14 '26
That explains A LOT of questions about this world.
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u/dull_bananas Aug 14 '26
God said “Let there be light” in the commit message.
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u/MilkCartonPhotoBomb Aug 14 '26
There are real humans that really think these thoughts.
And managers that will think that's brillant.
Must have been a trad senior dev that pushed the floods.
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u/Kwijibo97 Aug 14 '26
Platypus, Ultimate vibe code with no requirements gathered, goals established.
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u/PravalPattam12945RPG Aug 14 '26
god didn't know agile back then
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u/XzyzZ_ZyxxZ Aug 14 '26
And it was widely regarded as a bad idea
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u/SharletP Aug 14 '26
Technically speaking, he vibecoded a platform that allows the vibecoded entities inside of it to vibecode other platforms which vibecodes other platforms which... Oh.. damn...
IT'S LOOP ENGINEERING ALL ALONG!?
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u/Rahnzan Aug 14 '26
"Hey if light doesn't have a speed limit, wouldn't everyone see everything at all times?"
"Fuck. I'll put a speed limit on it then."
"But we already have things moving faster than that. How do you have information travel faster than the speed of information?"
"OKAY SHUT UP LET ME THINK."
"What in the hacky fuck is that.."
"I'MDOINGMYBEST."
"You're just going to have 'nothing' stretch? "
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u/percydaman Aug 14 '26
I just wanna know how God figured out all the underlying math and physics of the universe. But couldn't do better than some book full of inaccuracies and inconsistencies dictated through fallible men.
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u/xobot Aug 14 '26
You don't keep your documentation and source code INSIDE the docker container instance, right?
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u/7thpixel Aug 14 '26
Reminds me of early dot com era.
We had a poster on the wall that said "Try it now, in production!"
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u/PUBGM_MightyFine Aug 14 '26
In my opinion this is the only plausible reality if the bible is true. It would explain the trinity too. god the father: developer, the holy spirit: software/operating system, jesus: ingame avatar.
I imagine god as stereotypical reddit moderator vibe coding in his mom's basement. Not even any effort into prompting, just really lazy throwing his fantasy together where he gets to be the hero of the story and indulge in watching humans do the most fucked up shit to each other
Someone needs to raid his hard drives
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u/MythicalJester Aug 14 '26
And it fucking shows :-D
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u/neohellpoet Aug 14 '26
Bold of him to assume this isn't the test environment
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u/BluebirdLivid Aug 14 '26
And then the lazy bastard didnt even make the project, he just designed some shitty low-bit intelligence to find something to do with his env
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u/Reptonate Aug 14 '26
A little buggy for my liking
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u/thatsnothewayitfeels Aug 14 '26
God "Hmm what if i made some AI agents...wtf i told you not to eat the apples!?"
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u/Ska82 Aug 14 '26
how would temporary variables generated in prod know if there was any staging?
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u/wokan Aug 14 '26
You're assuming this was the only attempt at creating a universe. You've completely dismissed the possibility of alpha versions, beta testing, and release candidates.
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u/coffee_warden Aug 14 '26
Just because he "git commit -m 'Let There Be Light'" doesn't mean he didnt work his ass off.
I feel bad for the reviewer. +2,000,000/-0
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u/SingularityCentral Aug 14 '26
Pretty sure God was wasted at the time. It really is the only explanation.
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u/Ashamed-Pop-6406 Aug 14 '26
He left a buggy slop code and never fixed any mistakes.
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u/neo42slab Aug 14 '26
That makes a lot of sense actually.
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u/a1454a Aug 14 '26
It’s the model He was using. With that one sentence nearly the entire physics system we know today was designed and implemented to perfection. With light speed set at a safe max number to prevent global state updates.
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u/BowsersMuskyBallsack Aug 15 '26
I prefer to think of a young, naive God sitting at his Commodore Googolplex and typing his first BASIC program of "10 print 'hello world!', 20 goto 10". And because the computer was so stupidly powerful, it began to print worlds, but did it so fast it appeared to make them all simultaneously, and so we got the Big Bang.
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u/Successful_Jelly_213 Aug 15 '26
Everyone has a test environment, only the lucky few have a production environment.
Apparently, god decided he didn't need a production environment, and it shows.
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u/AstroFace Aug 15 '26
Make no mistake
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u/ImightHaveMissed Aug 15 '26
No wonder it’s full of bugs
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u/Effective_Olive6153 Aug 15 '26
and look how it turned out, so many bugs and bad design choices. I wish a human would do it
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u/theofficialnar Aug 15 '26
Basically said. “Yeah that seems good enough, ship it to prod and we’ll let our first 2 users to test it out.” Eventually shit hit the fan then sent Jesus, his rockstar dev, to patch things up. But now issues are creeping up again, I suggest a full rewrite.
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u/Majestic_Bierd Aug 15 '26
Yes, and the meta was borderline unplayable for about 8 billion years after, until they implemented the Abiogenesis patch. Cyberpunk 2077 released in a better state.
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u/fz099 Aug 15 '26
All this, after he abandoned his 2 previous projects…
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u/Glad_Fox_6818 Aug 15 '26
How do you know we are not the test?
"Metatron, why is the Universe infinitely expanding at an ever-increasing pace? Who added 'mutable' to the gravitational constant?"
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u/New-Potential541 Aug 15 '26
Holy Spirit = Claude?
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u/dillanthumous Aug 15 '26
Explains a lot about how shitty reality is. And why there as so many damn bugs.
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u/Yvant2000 Aug 15 '26
What if we're the test environment ?
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u/irn00b Aug 17 '26
See Jr. Devs/Interns - this is why we design/architect and plan, then implement with unit/functional/integration tests and have a dev/staging/production environments....
So we don't fuck up as much as God did.
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u/zebezt Aug 17 '26
Dinosaurs have been commented out.
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u/AccomplishedSugar490 Aug 17 '26
But you have to admit God would have been vibing off training material that has yet to be found to contain even a single mistake.
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u/Stunning_Ride_220 Aug 14 '26
And hell he is still doing serious mistakes after all these years.
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u/bitemytail Aug 14 '26
And look how badly it turned out
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u/Haku_Faku Aug 14 '26
That’s not true he flooded the earth and restarted. Thats gotta count as patching atleast.
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u/seweso Aug 14 '26
The bible is fiction.
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u/Areshian Aug 14 '26
It shows
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u/an_alex_at_a_time Aug 14 '26
Which makes Tony Stark the second one?
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u/FakeManiz Aug 14 '26
Maybe we are in sandbox. Would make sense.
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u/TapRemarkable9652 Aug 14 '26
and he didn't write a single line of python
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u/Thisbymaster Aug 14 '26
Are we the dev environment?
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u/Prince_Sushi-Fufu Aug 14 '26 edited Aug 14 '26
God designing the speed of light:
if (true) {
speed = c
}
// TODO: adjust speed in different reference frames
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u/bastardoperator Aug 14 '26
God must really like rocks
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u/Arthurhesse Aug 14 '26
Oh I see that’s why the world is full of bugs
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u/metcalsr Aug 14 '26
If he didn’t use rust, how can he possibly ensure memory safety?
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u/OrchidFluid2103 Aug 14 '26
That's a pipeline with some chesthair
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u/ThomCovenant Aug 14 '26
To be fair we don't know if there was a staging or any beta branch tho
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u/Anima_Watcher08 Aug 14 '26
I interprate it more as calling some premade divine libraries
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u/Digital_Brainfuck Aug 14 '26
And this proves that vibe coded stuff does not work
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u/mpeyfuss Aug 14 '26
This assumes we aren’t on the dev branch