USA. A diner entrance. There is a glass tower beside the register, and inside it, pies revolve slowly. Like planets. Like trophies. Like a test. I stood before it longer than is socially acceptable. In my land, the spoils of victory are displayed once, humbly, then put away. Here, the spoils ROTATE. Lit from within. Cherry passes. Lemon meringue rises over the horizon. Chocolate cream descends like dusk. The display has seasons. "You want a slice?" the waitress asked. "Which one is correct?" "...They're all correct, hon." ALL correct. Then the rotation is not a ranking. I had assumed the tower was an order of merit — the strongest pie ascending, the weakest cast down. No. They circle as equals. Eternal. Unranked. I watched two full rotations. The man behind me waited, then gave up and pointed. "Apple." Just like that. No vigil. No study. He pointed at a moving target and committed his evening to it. The decisiveness of this country will never stop humbling me. I confess what I did next. The lemon meringue came around a third time. Its golden peaks caught the light. I raised my hand as it passed, like a man hailing a ship. "The yellow one. Before it escapes." "It's not going anywhere, sweetie." It is going somewhere. It is going in a circle, and a circle is a journey too. The pie was perfect. I ate it facing the tower, so the others could see that their comrade was honored. The pies do not turn to tempt you. They turn so that no pie is ever first, and no pie is ever last. Next visit: cherry. It has been making eye contact for three rotations.

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There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. It's possible because the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good. Also I just talk to Composer with SuperWhisper so I barely even touch the keyboard. I ask for the dumbest things like "decrease the padding on the sidebar by half" because I'm too lazy to find it. I "Accept All" always, I don't read the diffs anymore. When I get error messages I just copy paste them in with no comment, usually that fixes it. The code grows beyond my usual comprehension, I'd have to really read through it for a while. Sometimes the LLMs can't fix a bug so I just work around it or ask for random changes until it goes away. It's not too bad for throwaway weekend projects, but still quite amusing. I'm building a project or webapp, but it's not really coding - I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy paste stuff, and it mostly works.

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pranking my bro into wielding a cursed weapon