This resonates! "Protecting the spirit of tinkering" is crucial to the development of resilience and passion; creating social spaces for shared knowledge scaffolding seems like an ideal medium. Excited to follow MoSaIC's progress!
This Saturday in Amsterdam, we are hosting a game design workshop/party called "8 Bit Vibes."
From 1pm to 1am, we will be designing pixel art, composing game music and designing game mechanics. And yes, doing a lot of vibe coding. We want to create a community opportunity to design games and develop their development skills. And no matter a person's past education, they can jump in, explore a vision for a new game and start prototyping it.
And, just last week we also had a vibecoding party about esotericism, at the Biblioteca Philosophical Hermitica. It was really beautiful! https://lu.ma/uowhvyzx
So, I like your conclusion that its the way we use these technologies that matter—and personally I think parties are the key technological enabler. But your tool looks cool too! Good luck in your PhD!
AI learning is definitely a single player game and I am excited to follow your progress to see how MoSaIC can make it more collaborative!
Though I would pushback on vibe coding being the opposite of tinkering. It is still tinkering just at a higher abstraction. When writing Python code you don’t need a mental model of how your code gets interpreted to C and then machine code to tinker. Yes with vibe coding you may not have a mental model of how the code works but you are just tinkering at a higher level.
Which may actually unlock more creativity and human thriving than if everyone needed to understand every level of abstraction. Higher abstraction democratizes creation as it empowers people to focus on what they want to build rather than getting stuck on how to implement it. This could actually amplify our curiousity and creativity especially for those who couldn’t express them through code.
Hey David, thanks for your thoughts! I 100% agree that vibe coding is increasingly great at single-player concept-based tinkering. There are ways that this can positively support social connection - I've vibecoded playful simple web games which catalyzed collaborations with (human) friends, and without the AI boost, those ideas would almost certainly have stayed in brain-space. I'd like to find more ways to build that connectivity directly into our AI interactions! Thanks for highlighting the power of being able to play and create at an idea level, super important point.
This resonates with me so much. I am msc ML/DS candidate; thinking of coding as means to an end has certainly not been helping me and I have been trying to let go of this mindset for over a year now.
Yes! The energetic understanding of tension as a form of value. I love that you are using technology to facilitate a paradigm shift towards "power with", leveraging curiosity as a catalyst. Unleash collaborative debate!
Do share more when you can. Got any theories on what a starter use case would be? (What would participants be exploring conceptually, what would the actual interface be like, etc).
This resonates! "Protecting the spirit of tinkering" is crucial to the development of resilience and passion; creating social spaces for shared knowledge scaffolding seems like an ideal medium. Excited to follow MoSaIC's progress!
This Saturday in Amsterdam, we are hosting a game design workshop/party called "8 Bit Vibes."
From 1pm to 1am, we will be designing pixel art, composing game music and designing game mechanics. And yes, doing a lot of vibe coding. We want to create a community opportunity to design games and develop their development skills. And no matter a person's past education, they can jump in, explore a vision for a new game and start prototyping it.
https://lu.ma/l4074pxg
And, just last week we also had a vibecoding party about esotericism, at the Biblioteca Philosophical Hermitica. It was really beautiful! https://lu.ma/uowhvyzx
So, I like your conclusion that its the way we use these technologies that matter—and personally I think parties are the key technological enabler. But your tool looks cool too! Good luck in your PhD!
AI learning is definitely a single player game and I am excited to follow your progress to see how MoSaIC can make it more collaborative!
Though I would pushback on vibe coding being the opposite of tinkering. It is still tinkering just at a higher abstraction. When writing Python code you don’t need a mental model of how your code gets interpreted to C and then machine code to tinker. Yes with vibe coding you may not have a mental model of how the code works but you are just tinkering at a higher level.
Which may actually unlock more creativity and human thriving than if everyone needed to understand every level of abstraction. Higher abstraction democratizes creation as it empowers people to focus on what they want to build rather than getting stuck on how to implement it. This could actually amplify our curiousity and creativity especially for those who couldn’t express them through code.
Hey David, thanks for your thoughts! I 100% agree that vibe coding is increasingly great at single-player concept-based tinkering. There are ways that this can positively support social connection - I've vibecoded playful simple web games which catalyzed collaborations with (human) friends, and without the AI boost, those ideas would almost certainly have stayed in brain-space. I'd like to find more ways to build that connectivity directly into our AI interactions! Thanks for highlighting the power of being able to play and create at an idea level, super important point.
Loved this!!
This resonates with me so much. I am msc ML/DS candidate; thinking of coding as means to an end has certainly not been helping me and I have been trying to let go of this mindset for over a year now.
Yes! The energetic understanding of tension as a form of value. I love that you are using technology to facilitate a paradigm shift towards "power with", leveraging curiosity as a catalyst. Unleash collaborative debate!
Do share more when you can. Got any theories on what a starter use case would be? (What would participants be exploring conceptually, what would the actual interface be like, etc).