The New Stack, Sponsored by Microsoft: Pay Us Money to Read Promotion of Slop Composed by Microsofters to Sell Their Proprietary Slopware
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Behind the 'paywall':
The Web site The New Stack is aiming lower and lower. First it locked everything behind a nag screen that cannot be skipped/removed (demanding registration). Now it publishes promotion of slop.
Well, promotion of slop is bad enough in its own right.
What's even worse is promotion of slop for people who sell it.
"A core problem with 'vibe coding' is that it too treats security like an aftermarket add-on instead of acknowledging that it is an integral part of the design process from the earliest stages of design," an associate noted about the above.
They basically tell us, use slop to make lousy code, then use more slop to 'fix' this code.
What can possibly go wrong?
There's also a conflict of interest there, so it's just an ad basically.
His only article ever in this site and follow the money:
And it's a self-promotional plug for someone who came from Microsoft ("led engineering initiatives at Juniper and Microsoft", according to himself).
Notice that even the image in that site (The New Stack) is slop. █
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