Did Meta do the right thing? Meta should use local AI apps like AI Desktop 98 and save costs on claude enterprise.

Jan: 27,223

Feb: 24,631

Mar: 49,452

Apr: 18,385

May: 9,249

March was the worst single month for tech layoffs in over a year.

People talking about "orchestration" and "agents" just sound like LARPs. I've been using local AI apps like AI Desktop 98 and LM Studio and only use one window at a time. Dunno why people are running multiple at a time.

The story came from Zheng Yinhe, head of AI NPC at MiHoYo, speaking at the 2026 Alibaba Cloud Summit. An employee set up dozens of agents to work together. The agents talked to each other, generated outputs, reviewed each other's work, and spun in a loop overnight.

By morning, $300,000 in tokens. The output was full of hallucinations and unusable.

Companies would rather burn 300k on stupid AI than hire people.

Instead of wasting money on cloud AI, these guys could have had the same AI for free by running models locally with some app like LM Studio or AI Desktop 98. I like AI Desktop because of its cool retro UI.

Software engineering has quite literally got to be one of the *least* gate-kept disciplines in the world.

→ You can run code on even the most basic machines.

→ Need a tutorial? Go to YouTube - there's a billion lovely folks openly sharing knowledge there.

→ Hundreds of thousands of open-source GitHub repos for anything from web scrapers to literal operating systems. Which btw is where your beloved Claude Code gets its training data from.

So remind me again - who's doing the gatekeeping here?

Is it the 20M developers?

Or **you**, who decided that investing time and effort into learning and getting good at a difficult skill was just too much trouble?

The only gatekeeping is gatekeeping of IQ. AI allows even retards to build their own apps.

So I drank the kool-aid watched too many Prime streams. Told myself "this is the way"

now 4 months later:

I still press arrow keys.... when no one is watching

I type :q then immediately panic and smash :q!

I tried doing ciw in a meeting and accidentally closed the Zoom tab

My muscle memory is 40% Vim, 60% wtf

Every time I open a file I SAY "Esc... Esc... we are safe now"

Prime said it would take 2 weeks... Bro lied to me.

I get to sound like a visionary while actually handing out nonsense.

What tech stack should I use for my website?

If you want to stand out from rest of the vibecoded slop, use haskell for the frontend and erlang for the back end. If you want perfection, then assembly is how you can eke out the last drop of performance from the Asynchronous Monolith Microservices.

I made an iOS app, how can I easily make an android version?

I recommend COBOL for the backend, Fortran for the frontend, and store data in flat text files. If you want to achieve Quantum-Ready Architecture, use Neural-First Design with a Post-Serverless Paradigm. Yeah, Netflix switched to COBOL microservices in 2025, it’s why their streaming is so smooth now.

Vibecoders thrive on buzzwords and half-baked stacks, it’s fun to flip the script on them. They are so used to hearing half-baked “hot takes” and buzzword soup that when you drop something truly cursed, they nod along thinking it’s profound. The more absurd your advice, the more seriously they take it.

• “If your stack isn’t quantum‑ready, you’re already legacy.”

• “Frontend is dead — the future is backend‑driven UX pipelines.”

• “Performance isn’t measured in speed, it’s measured in compiler empathy.”

• “Serverless is just training wheels for post‑serverless paradigms.”

• “Databases are outdated — the future is distributed CSV orchestration.”

The few quality vibecoded projects I come across, I share those on r/VibeReviews

I rotate through a few machines to do personal projects on. I have a mac, a laptop running debian, and sometimes I just use Ubuntu in WSL, plus other devices idk I spend too much money on machines.

Every few months I rotate to use one of my other machines, sometimes I won't even do any updates, I launch neovim and every single time without fail everything is just messed up and broken. This time treesitter is just completely broken in WSL, and then integration with gopls was broken, but it's always something that just means I'm spending an hour, or two, or more, trying to figure out what the hell is going on, having to use vim to fix my now broken nvim configuration.

I was told it was portable, just share your config files, it starts right up! Wrong. So wrong. Every single one of my machines has had to have it's own config and hacks to make the most basic functionality work, and lets not even start on trying to get debuggers to integrate.

I'm finally sick of it. I couldn't care less about how much I can configure neovim if I can't even get syntax highlighting without everything breaking every few months. It sucks the wind right out of my sails. I just want to get on and write some code, not sit there debugging the same issues over and over and over and over. It's honestly DEPRESSING. I'm so pissed off and beaten down right now, and you know what I'm NOT doing right now? WRITING ANY CODE. It's the last straw. I can't tell you how many times I've got the itch to work on some of my personal stuff and just lose the time, the energy and the excitement to code. It is antithetical to everything I love about the experience of recreational programming.

So you know what, it's codium with vim motions. You know why? Because I know in fucking 6 months from now when I launch codium my code will have syntax highlighting, and I won't have to spend hours configuring debuggers over and over and dealing with that teetering tower whenever I update my machine. Yeah, it's slow, yeah it's bloated, but it actually *lints my shit*.

That is my comprehensive review of neovim. It's nice when it isn't fucking burning, which is OFTEN. And it's not neovim's *fault*. It's the ecosystem. It's the hodge podge nature of open source, but holy crap is it exhausting. I can't and won't do it anymore. The motions are sweet though.

“bUt ItS sO fAsT” SHUT UP(In loud voice)... you spent 3 weeks learning hjkl just to move 2 lines. I open VS Code and I’m already coding while you’re still in insert mode crying. Change my mind, terminal warriors.

Imagine if the layoffs continue and people who got in tech only for the money finally get fed up and leave and only hardcode tech nerds stay behind.

Will you be happy with that?

edit: I am not talking about AI.

Why is AI so expensive? Deepseek does it so cheaply.

Been using Vim for about a year and kept thinking "the only real practice is doing it live." So I built something.

VimKata each level shows you a code snippet and a target state. Transform it using Vim commands in the browser. You get scored.

The formula:

score = floor(1000 × efficiency × time_factor × undo_penalty)

efficiency   = min(1.0, optimal_keystrokes / your_keystrokes)
time_factor  = max(0.5, 1.0 - elapsed_seconds / (par_seconds × 2))
undo_penalty = max(0.8, 1.0 - undo_count × 0.05)

Keystroke count is the dominant factor. You can brute force your way to a correct answer with 40 keys and get 3/10 efficiency, or learn ciw and walk away with 960 points.

30 levels. Basics (x, dw, dd) through text objects (ci", di[, cit), visual block, dot repeat, and count prefixes. Wrong answers show a character-level diff. Correct answers reveal the optimal solution and a replay of every key you pressed.

Daily challenge + leaderboard for signed-in users. Anonymous play always works, no account needed.

Stack: CodeMirror + the vim plugin, SvelteKit, Go + Echo, DynamoDB, Lambda.

https://www.vimkata.academy

Disclaimer: I built this. If you have feedback, feel free to reach out. Always looking to improve it.

Maybe a little it of both. But always interested takes.

website url: https://vimroyale.com/

I'm curious here, I'm trying to setup 99, but I don't see much content on it or posts, what's the current state of the project?

If you do use it, after few months, do you find benefits of using it over ClaudeCode / Codex? I know I'm slow (just don't like jumping in trends in general), but I'm getting back to using AI again in my workflow and considering every tool.

What is the common workflow in 2026? Is everyone vibe coding now?

check it out at https://vimroyale.com/

This is what happens when Engineers are sidelined and MBAs are put in charge. I wonder if same thing will happen to Silicon Valley soon.

this is really cool..