Dave Banerjee @DaveRBanerjee
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Dave Banerjee @DaveRBanerjee · 8h Lot's of software is inherently adversarial. Take YouTube for example. The algorithm hill-climbs on user engagement metrics, which is often not aligned with human values. In light of this, I vibe coded a wrapper around YouTube that's designed exactly how I want it to maximize my utility Will be sharing more details soon but I'm generally excited for the future where I can create bespoke software to overcome all B2C SaaS misalignments [2 replies, 7 likes, 335 views] Michael Soareverix @Soareverix · 7h I've been using an app called Forcefield that does this. It's pretty good, and very good at blocking the content I don't want, but I don't think Haiku (or Qwen, or the other small AIs that often power it) really understand my preferences deeply enough to recommend stuff
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Two stacked dark-mode tweets: Dave Banerjee on vibe-coding a personal YouTube wrapper to escape engagement-optimizing algorithms, and Michael Soareverix replying that the Forcefield app does this but small models like Haiku or Qwen don't understand his preferences deeply enough to recommend.
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