Vibe Coding Fever, AI Smoke and Mirrors, and the iOS Screenshot Watermark Hack
Published on 29.04.2026
Vibe Coding is Garbage, But the Fever Dream Has Just Begun
TLDR: Vibe coding produces low-quality output by design, but the author argues that democratizing code generation will evolve faster than anyone expects. It's garbage in, garbage out, and also somehow the future.
Vibe Coding is Garbage, But the Fever Dream Has Just Begun
The Smoke, Mirrors, and Billion-Dollar Deceptions Behind the AI Revolution
TLDR: The AI industry systematically misrepresents its products through rigged benchmarks, staged demos, and manufactured panic about rogue AI. Michal Kadak, a product manager with an engineering background, walks through each category of deception in detail.
The Smoke, Mirrors, and Billion-Dollar Deceptions Behind the AI Revolution
I Hid a Watermark in Screenshots, and iOS Thought It Was a Password
TLDR: A developer exploited iOS's secure text entry rendering behavior to embed invisible watermarks that only appear in screenshots, then discovered the technique accidentally triggered iOS password autofill detection.
I Hid a Watermark in Screenshots, and iOS Thought It Was a Password
How Spam Filters Shaped the Field of Adversarial ML
TLDR: Early-2000s email spam filters became an accidental training ground for adversarial machine learning. Spammers reverse-engineered Bayesian classifiers through trial and error, developing evasion and poisoning techniques that researchers later formalized into an entire field.