This is a comic about AI art.
Gosh, The Oatmeal was one of my favorite cartoonists back then™️. Then I stopped using an RSS Reader, and the bookmark was lost in a pile of bookmark folders.
And now, reading this comic of his reminded me why I love his style: because he sometimes has genuine takes on things, like in this take on AI!
I tried AI Art back then, when it was new, but after a few weeks of enthusiasm, I realized it was just the technology I found interesting, not the result.
AI Images are called slop because they are missing the soul and the intention of human minds.
There recently was a video by a German YouTuber called "Ultralativ" on this topic that described it best for me. He coined the phrase "It's good enough for you" ("Für euch reicht's"). And yes, that's it; it's called slop for a reason. People creating Ai Images and Videos do not value you, they are imposters out for a quick buck, knowing that we, the consumer, will swallow and consume it.
Maybe I will elaborate on this in a separate article.
Vibe coding represents a shift where
the feeling of a product takes
precedence over traditional technical
rigor.
In fact, this frontend you might see right now is approximately 70% vibe-coded.
While high-level AI abstractions allow for rapid prototyping and aesthetic polish, they often mask underlying technical debt and
fragile logic.
In an abrupt shift, the company may release future AI models without ironclad safety guarantees
Boris Cherny, the founder of Anthropic's Claude Code, said AI has largely solved coding, so software engineers will start to take on different tasks.
Boris Cherny, Anthropic's Claude Code founder, declares coding "practically solved" by AI, predicting the "software engineer" title fades by 2026.
Engineers evolve into generalists writing specs, engaging users, and reviewing agent-generated code. Startups use full agent workflows; teams include non-coders coding via AI. Shifts bring productivity but risks like atrophy and fatigue, redefining roles across industries.
TL;DR: The Junior Developer role is disappearing as AI handles entry-level tasks like unit tests and JSON schemas faster and cheaper than humans. This removes crucial learning opportunities where juniors gain codebase knowledge and debugging skills through grunt work.
Seniors emerge from repeated production failures, not tutorials. Vibe coding with AI creates ununderstood codebases.
Result: barbell workforce of experienced seniors using AI and prompt-only users lacking fundamentals.
Solution: Hire juniors to audit AI output via forensic coding.
Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.
The creative industry is facing a systemic collapse as generative AI replaces human illustrators and writers with cheaper, automated substitutes.
The article outlines how professional artists are losing long-term clients and seeing their wages plummet while tech companies profit from their scraped work.
It is a sobering look at why the current AI gold rush might be destroying the very culture it seeks to mimic and why protecting human labor matters now.
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Was passiert eigentlich, wenn die KI das Internet überrennt? Dann landen wir im dunklen Wald der Bot-Armeen.
🇩🇪 AI Slop floods web: Facebook KI-Bildfabriken earn via virals, YouTube mindless kids vids, TikTok deepfakes. "Dark forest" theory: bots dominate open spaces, humans retreat to Discords/groups/meatspace. Explosion to surreal entropy or stasis (model collapse). Cynical: platforms optimize addictive, personalized slop trained on likes. Endless fun metaverse of perfect AI worlds/friends.
The Death of the User Interface. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
We are witnessing a "fundamental shift* from graphical interfaces to pure intent. For fifty years, humans had to learn the language of computers—clicks, menus, and folders.
Now, AI agents are finally learning to speak human. By eliminating the "cognitive tax" of traditional navigation, the tool disappears into the task, turning the "bicycle for the mind" into a teleporter.
This isn't just an evolution; it’s the end of UI as we know it, making interaction truly natural.
KI-generierte Medieninhalte fluten digitale Kommunikationskanäle. Menschliche Kreativität droht unterzugehen. Wie KI-Spam die Zukunft des Internets gefährdet.
Are websites about to go out of style? AI agents are exploring new user interfaces, including AI browsers and a new project called MCP-UI.
MCP-UI standardizes rich HTML UIs within AI agents using Model Context Protocol, bypassing static websites for agent-first interactions. SDKs for TypeScript/Ruby enable dynamic components like e-commerce in VS Code. Proponents envision AI browsers and Jarvis-like clients replacing browsers; services shift to MCP-native with lean human UIs atop. Bridges AI capabilities to web tech, aligning with projects like NLWeb amid hype for agent UIs.
As a solo developer building UserJot, I was spending too much time on repetitive tasks. Between...
This article explains how to use the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and FastMCP to turn an AI assistant into a proactive partner that can browse local files, call APIs, and manage terminal commands.
By building custom tools for keyword research, support ticket analysis, and task prioritization, you can reclaim a significant amount of daily time and make smarter, data-driven decisions for your projects.
I shouldn’t have to care about this. I don’t want to care about how someone’s code gets into the IDE. Whether you wrote it by hand, copied it from a forum…
I’ve been following the shift toward vibe coding, and this piece perfectly captures that transition from rigid engineering to a more intuitive, AI-driven flow. It explores how we're moving away from deep syntax knowledge toward shaping systems through intent. While it warns about the loss of fundamental debugging skills, it also celebrates the sheer creative speed we gain. It’s a compelling look at our new reality: if it feels right and the tests pass, it’s code. 🚀
A battle-tested playbook to map, plan, vibe-code, debug, review, and ship—six workflows that future-proof your stack, slash dev time, and outlast every AI hype cycle
Corporate America just issued its latest ultimatum: use AI or update your LinkedIn
AI is no longer a choice but a mandatory, often inefficient mandate.
How companies are "throwing spaghetti at walls" by forcing integration without clear hypotheses, leading to bloated workflows and a loss of human expertise. By prioritizing corporate "moats" and labor substitution over actual utility, this trend risks creating fragile systems that neither the creators nor the users fully control.
Are we are truly innovating or just surrendering to a technological fiat that values perceived efficiency over genuine progress?
Gemini and ChatGPT—two of the most powerful chatbots in artificial intelligence—did something no mentor, coach, or mastermind group could do. They gave me
Vibe coding has become super easy, here’s how to do it
Ensuring quality code suggestions from Copilot goes beyond the perfect prompt. Context is key to success when working with your AI pair programmer.
If you want to avoid being the latest casualty of the AI innovation wave, it’s critical to learn how to effectively prompt in the workplace.
The more time I spend using LLMs for code, the less I worry for my career - even as their coding capabilities continue to improve. Using LLMs as part of …
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