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Aedaz_@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• GamingChairModel@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The -cel suffix suggests that it’s an insult (derived from incel).

  Vibe coding is the name for creating computer code by telling an AI to generate the code for you, without necessarily even understanding anything about the code itself.

  A thousand yard stare is a description for someone who looks like they’re staring off into the distance, as if they’re having some kind of PTSD flashback, or just at a loss for words.

  This is a photograph of Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, a major generative AI company.

  Tokens are the unit of measure of how much computing power a particular generative AI query uses.

  So basically, it’s a meme that ironically takes the position of the vibe coder, mocking someone who is actually unwilling to use the AI code generation tools (calling them a codecel and criticizing them for saying something anti-vibe-coding or vibephobic), by giving the blank stare of Sam Altman’s soulless eyes, and calling it a billion token stare, but basically doing it ironically to make fun of generative AI enthusiasts by lobbing a really stupid criticism and making the critic look bad.

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  • ThunderComplex@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    One thing tho: -cel isn’t a suffix. Incel is a portmanteau of involuntary celibate, i.e. someone who wants to have sex but doesn’t.
    Codecel should thus mean someone who wants to code but doesn’t, which honestly sounds like what a vibecoder would be.

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    • Hazzard@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think in this case the origin of “-cel” is a portmanteau, but its usage has shifted to a suffix. “Codecel” isn’t a portmanteau of “coder celibate”, it’s become a mockery of incels to use it as a suffix for “loser who’s obsessed with this thing”.

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      • ThunderComplex@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Thanks for clarifying. That’s really strange tho. I don’t think of incel as a insult so it’s strange to me that you’d mock them. And for the meaning of the new “-cel” suffix to stray so far from its original context… weird.

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• Inucune@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not sure if scitzo thread or stroke posting.

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