Here's something for those of you who want to really double down on the vibe-coding identity. Spiral has launched a new community or club or something for people who like bitcoin and like to vibe code. Never hurts to practice in the company of other people who are serious about what they're doing.
Who should apply.Who should apply.
- You're built to build. You have a track record of creating interesting things, know how to vibe code, and bring a level of experience that will elevate what we make.
- You're curious about AI and new ways to transact. You're drawn to experiment with the possibilities unlocked by generative AI and new digital assets like bitcoin, stablecoins and more.
- You bring good vibes to vibe coding. Positivity and optimism are simply in your nature. You know how to guide people towards better results without cutting them down.
- You love the game. Flint is free to join but offers no financial incentives. We're here to build big things with like-minded creators.
- You have a frontier mentality. Many early prototypes developed by the Flint community will involve using some experimental, low-security, low-privacy software. Fund loss can happen and you're okay with that.
I think this is cool, with one exception:
If you design for money transmission and you're not rich, you can't have the type of bugs they are preemptively disclaiming. Moving fast and breaking things on Facebook built us an industry focused on maximum data extraction and thus maximum privacy invasion.
So while it may sound cool to approach it like that, I'd be much more impressed if there was an item that said something like:
You're not afraid to commit to excellence: In a world where you do nothing but chat with a bot all day, all you have is reputation. Exposing the public to products that are low-security and low-privacy is damaging to your reputation, so you focus on getting it right. Restarting is cheap and easy because all it costs is GPU ticks.
I completely agree with commitment to excellence and this is consistent with the intention of Flint. Like with any product development, there will be phases
The level of quality you're speaking to for security and robustness definitely applies to #3 Blaze. For most applications, I would expect #3 to still require human programmers to review/audit/improve the code for proper attention to security, privacy, and scaling.
For #1 Kindling and #2 Firewood, pure vibecoding will be the norm to make it accessible to more people and to experiment and iterate in a more rapid fashion. For Kindling, like any alpha software, it is "tester beware" and hence there is encouragement to use small funds while testing.
There's a cool thing it is called testnet! It works very well for alpha!
It actually doesn't. MDK, Lexe, LN, Spark, Ark, e-cash, etc. doesn't support it. Few wallets support it. Basically no one could test your apps. The goal here is to make it easy for people to test and rapid iteration.
I'm not entirely sure that it is true for everything you name there but no point in arguing. I'll put up some more infra for testnet, and make this constraint go away.
Any requests?
@optimism thoughts?
I deleted my comment draft 😂
Will redo in the am (still on the wrong side of Atlantic so this ought to come to you Saturday wakey time)
You could love the game but not understand the concepts.