I'm building a zork-like dungeon explorer for vibe coded projects. Ok, the zork interface is not that important, but it adds an extra layer of fun, and does reflect the reality of how I dig through a codebase to understand it. You start at the entry point and start exploring each code path to build a map of what is going on, taking notes as you go, and using tools if you're lucky to get a sense of the overall structure. You can also go up and down a level of abstraction like going up and down a dungeon.

It incorporates also complaints from a static analyzer for Python and Javascript that detects 90+ vibe slop anti-patterns using mostly ASTs, and in some cases AST + small language models. The complaints give the local class and methods a sense of how much pain they are in, so I give the code a sense of its own emotional state.

I also build data flow schematics of the entire system so I can visualize the project as a wire diagram, which is very helpful to quickly see what is going on.

Is clunker some new slang that's different than clanker? I'm asking for a friend of my friend Roku.

p.s. thanks for making this; timely as I am playing whackamole with sandboxing right now.

Do you feel like you have no mouth and you must scream?

I don't feel like the abstraction away from assembly language resulted in fewer software engineering jobs. Nor do I feel like Java's virtual machine resulted in fewer systems engineering jobs. Somehow I don't feel that writing in English rather than pure logic will result in fewer engineering problems either. A lot more actually. But at least we'll get the requirements out of users into something concrete faster.

What is definitely going to be abundantly clear is just how much better machines can get at creating correct code and how bad each of us truly is at this. That's an ego hit.

The loving effort an artisan puts into a perfect pot still has wabi sabi from the human error; whereas a factory produced pot is way more perfect and possesses both a Quality from closeness to Idealism and an eerieness from its unnaturalness.

However, the demand for artisan pottery has niched out compared to Ikea bowls, so that's just how it is.

That’s a strong point. I interpret that: Covid created needs that weren’t permanent and also caused overinvestment to address digitalization and remote life needs to support lockdown as well as predictions for a permanent change in the future. Either way a lot of the work to be done in software is done for a while.