Software Pump and Dump

by brisky on 1/27/2026, 8:03:11 AM

http://tautvilas.lt/software-pump-and-dump/

Comments

by: pell

Previous discussion: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46780065">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46780065</a> (2 days ago, 70+ comments)

1/30/2026, 9:00:34 AM

by: behnamoh

Fully agreed on the clawdbot hype. But I feel like a "natural selection" process is taking place in these situations; AI influencers and vibe coders are going to fall for it (good riddance). Any programmer worth their salt (like the author) knows Steipe's works is bs and moves on. Steipe prides himself in not the half-ass spaghetti code his agents write, and had constantly opposed best practices in the industry like context management through subagents, etc.

1/30/2026, 10:12:13 AM

by: TZubiri

Note, unofficial scam coins that grift on memes are very common and have been for about 2 years now, it doesn't mean an official affiliation.<p>However 2 things are very specific to this case:<p>1- Dev received a donation, which might be a way for a crypto rug puller to pump a coin. Kind of tangential, but it might be dirty money that the dev accepted. What usually happens is that the famous person is naïve and believes that they really deserve the money, and then they promote a coin which is rugpulled, that's the basic but there might be many shapes, like sending a single prompt about cryptocurrency and causing moltbot to create a new coin.<p>2- There is a PoW effect in agentic vibe coding, poetically illustrated in GasTown. This parallel makes it possible that there's a very tight relationship between these 2 worlds.

1/30/2026, 9:34:46 AM

by: smcin

Webpage is down for me?

1/30/2026, 8:48:48 AM