Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party?(ft.com)
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Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party?
https://www.ft.com/content/cec8df9e-b43b-4cd1-8feb-c07e804e8d33
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Had to over-simplify things a bit on cURL to keep this legible to a general audience, particularly in the first few paragraphs. The idea is that at some point down the stack from your request, libcurl is almost certainly involved (as a dependency, or maybe installed on your internet router, for example), not that your browser is necessarily running libcurl code directly in making the request. But yes, it's slightly hand-wavy in service of the larger point ("this is a thing you use all of the time without realizing it")
Thanks for responding! It is hard to strike the right balance; I wouldn't want to be a writer :)
Thanks, learned something.
> Now, suddenly, it’s completely normal to have to pay $100 or $200 per month in order to do software development
And those prices are still subsidized. OpenAI, Anthropic, etc are nowhere close to generating profits.
And those prices are still subsidized. OpenAI, Anthropic, etc are nowhere close to generating profits.
Their assertion that cURL is used to fetch the web page you're reading seems...misplaced. Browsers almost certainly do not use libcurl to fetch web pages. Though I do agree that libcurl is ubiquitous.