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Before it was cool
Number one radiates “It broke and was easier to do stairs, saved budget on railing.” Which I get.
I just like number three. Good use of space.
That last one is like if Escher went to arch school
I kinda dig the double balcony tbh.
Seriously, who wouldn’t want to hang out on bunk balconies
The difference is that LLMs generate something that is designed to blend in. It’s supposed to convince someone that it was made by a human.
So, a “vibe constructed” house would probably look like a real house to someone who didn’t know much about houses. But, the pipe from the sink might just go into a space between the walls. The electrical system would be a random mess of lines that would short out as soon as it was connected to the grid. The doors might look right at first, but when you tried to open one you’d see that the hinges were installed in a way that opening it was impossible.
You might be shocked to hear this but all of those issues happen with no AI involved at all. Every time a bastard is born you should slap an engineer.
A while ago, there was a a YouTube video of people laughing at AI generated floorplans.
Because of course there was a company that tried to make an AI floorplan generator without a shred of thinking. They posted the “good” ones on their website, and even they had obvious weird details like completely misproportionate rooms, having ten bathrooms in a small house, and just straight up missing doors everywhere.
Yeah, the fact that they still tried to sell or use so much AI slop that still had major flaws should have been a clear sign that you should never trust marketers because they’ll still try to push obvious garbage as if it is amazing. Same thing with those early coke AI ads that were just a series of unrelated scenes that look ok until you look any closer, but someone greenlighted it despite all that.
They were phoning it in so hard they pushed what were technical demos at best as final products.
Though from my perspective, I already had inverse trust based on apparent ad budget even before AI slop showed up because enshitification and apathy about actual quality were rampant long before AI slop was a thing.
The thing is while LLMs do make mistakes when you have something you can drive conformance with they are actually pretty good (eventually)
For electrical or plumbing we can simulate those pretty well and a LLM can iterate until it gets a reasonable output since it can check its work against a simulator.
You could likely live in a house for a bit before you stumbled into something stupid. You could live your entire life and not notice if you never tore out the walls.
However if you went to change a light switch you might discover it used 3 different kinds of screws and the screw terminals are mislabeled.
That was my first thought as well, it would have the appearance but not the function.
Seen a home where the dish washer pipe just went into the wall and ended. Mixed copper and aluminum wire. The way doors opened was random.
The vibe builder might not be much different than what we have.
Home Alone 7: Everyone Dies for Real
I think it requires that everybody is smashed together with no room to breathe or wiggle or move, we are all smashed into that cube. That’s the only way the world population will fit in there.
i absolutely refuse to live in the blue cube
AI trained for this as it analyzed the Time Cube webpage.
“Uh I wouldn’t take it down if I were you. It’s a load bearing poster.”
Vibe AutoCAD
“If you don’t figure out how to be excited to live here, you’re just going to be left behind.”
“It is coming and everyone is doing it so you just have to figure out how to use it.”
I pitched the idea of an AI clock at a meeting once. Basically you ask what time it is and the AI checks it’s LLM and then confidently tells you the time it thinks.
Now, do you believe it?
Take it a step further and have AI set meetings for you or tell you what is on your calendar.
Do you trust it or do you check your calendar?
The amount of trust we are putting into a machine that is effectively a probability script is mind boggling.
People keep telling me “That’s not how you’re supposed to use it.”
And I keep having to remind them, “But that’s how it works.”
Yet there are people who believe in agentic AI, and I think I heard that some are actually using it in their daily lives. Not sure I believe them.
American engineering...
Is that Bobby Mortaher?
I think you mean Bobby Moneyham
Bobby Morninghand
Wait until you find out about how this is pretty much new home construction anyways.
What do you mean? We shouldn’t let men who constantly lie about what 9 inches looks like be the ones measuring insulation in the attic?
But seriously, buddy just bought a brand new home and I did a once over for him. Pretty sure my cat has made more well done hairballs
If you can believe it, it’s more to do with the commercial interests that develop these properties don’t want to pay to do things right so it ends up being cut corners and underpaid labour on anything that doesn’t help you sell it for a quick buck
I was helping my dad put some shelving into the alcoves at their new house and it was horrendous. Those things weren’t even close to square. Fortunately we cut them based off how wide it was at the front and not the back… Just looking around that place there’s a ton of shit that was clearly half-assed. I still don’t understand what they were thinking with this because their old place was rock solid and they didn’t gain anything by moving.
I hope for your sake that was it. Some of the walls in those new houses I’ve seen lean from top to bottom. Like, a crown is expected, this is a straight up Michael Jackson Thriller impression. It blows my mind that’s it’s cheaper to slap them together and have to redo whole walls post drywall than do it right the first time.
They seemed to be pretty straight top to bottom. Wouldn’t surprise me if there’s issues like that somewhere though. I’m excited (not) to inherit that place one day probably just as it’s falling apart for good.
As a programmer I mostly hate AI written software.
But I do think it’s great that non-programmers can do a lot of things that they never could before.
I wonder if project managers had the same feeling toward agile. There will always be demand for developers, the challenge now is how to get developers skilled and experienced enough to tackle real project work.
On the plus side, you’ll never have to code a habit tracker ever again…
Imagine if all plumbing was made out of cardboard. Sinks, toilets, pipes.
That’s modern computing.
It’s not all plumbing, sure, but there are actually (basically) cardboard pipes. They are called Orangeburg Pipes, but they’ve long since been phased out. They are still installed all over the place, however.
lol there’s actually a Craig of the Creek episode about this. Two words: duck tape.
At least he’s wearing PPE
Ah yes, much like the way I build houses in Sims and Minecraft. Although I usually have a plan in mind. it just comes out shitty
