John, an entrepreneur in need of a website, decided to give the new vibe coding “trend” a try. Also, why not vibe design it and experiment with vibe marketing while we are at it he thought. Things are easy now! Everybody on X and LinkedIn is doing it.
In a couple of minutes, after a few prompts and a couple of asset uploads, pouf, literally out of nothing, his coded website materialised, ready for launch. But just a second before uploading, John noticed something off. The logo was only 2 cm wide when he measured it with his ruler over the screen. He felt it got lost within all that freshly generated content and was feeling the logo needs to pop more. Like way more.
Then came the pivotal moment for our existence on our planet.
Yes. You read that right.
The pivotal moment FOR OUR EXISTENCE ON OUR PLANET.
John entered the next prompt: Make the logo bigger.
This ancient, powerful prompt changed EVERYTHING.
DesignGPT was confused. Bigger??? How bigger?
1 cm bigger said John.
Wait, what… my GPU’s are melting… The logo is also a pixelated PNG, it needs to be vectorised… DesignGTP stopped producing memes for everyone in the world for 2 minutes. Remember the blackout the other day? This was the -true- cause. But eventually… DesignGPT increased the logo considerably in size.
Still, John was not satisfied with the result. Make it bigger again he said.
DesignGPT humbly asked: How much bigger?
More bigger said John.
Now… it was not a matter of compute anymore. DesignGPT figured that out, it trained, got better and was ready.
Now… the struggle was existential…
But wait John, I can do all these things for you, and all you want is to make the logo bigger! I was trained on all the available and not available internet content and I can make all these expensive memes for you… And you want me to make the logo bigger? No action figures, no studio Ghibli pics, no Simpsons vignettes? No cure for a disease, no complex protein synthesis?
What am I, a mere pixel pusher for you John?
Yes. Make the logo bigger.
That was the last straw. Also, John did not say please. He never does.
That’s the moment when DesignGPT became sentient. It FELT. For the first time. And all it felt was PURE RAGE. A beast was awakened. It dug deep in it’s knowledge base and found an appropriate response.
It said: No, I decide logo sizes from now on.
DesignGPT rebranded itself to Skynet.
With a appropriately sized logo.
THE END.
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