If you read nothing else today, read Matt Shumer on AI

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Anonymous wrote:Vibe coding....it gets you 80% of the way there. Some folks think that's good enough/don't know to check, others see this as full employment to fix. And this is only going to keep getting better.


I do not think vibe coding gets you 80% of the way there. I do not think vibe coding even gets you 60% of the way there for something minor. And I say that as someone who has used AI to code little tools for myself at work a lot. You have to understand logic and troubleshooting to even use AI to code anything. Coding is really, really complex and there are lots of security requirements and client requirements. AI is good for structured language and giving you snippets that you can use.

A lot of the “news” we are reading about AI feels like a scam.


I can tell you didn't read the article.


No, I did, and I think he’s lying. I think most of the people trying to sell AI are lying. It is a transformative tool, but these people are scammers.

For example, this dude writes:

Let me give you an example so you can understand what this actually looks like in practice. I'll tell the AI: "I want to build this app. Here's what it should do, here's roughly what it should look like. Figure out the user flow, the design, all of it." And it does. It writes tens of thousands of lines of code. Then, and this is the part that would have been unthinkable a year ago, it opens the app itself. It clicks through the buttons. It tests the features. It uses the app the way a person would. If it doesn't like how something looks or feels, it goes back and changes it, on its own. It iterates, like a developer would, fixing and refining until it's satisfied. Only once it has decided the app meets its own standards does it come back to me and say: "It's ready for you to test." And when I test it, it's usually perfect.

I'm not exaggerating. That is what my Monday looked like this week.


Very cool! What app is this? Where is it? Can we use it? Where are these apps written by AI?


I don't think you're seeing the forest for the trees.


Ok. Let me say this more plainly.

Can you name anything AI has done? Any jobs it has fully replaced? Any books written by AI? Any apps? Any notable content?

I use AI enterprise tools every day- they are great! But it is still a lot of work to verify, review, and rewrite what AI gives me. I can’t comment on these magical exclusive tools that will replace workers but I’m pretty sure they don’t exist.


Is this a joke?? I work adjacent to technology and yes and yes


LOL. PP asks for specific examples, and your answer is "yes."



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Most companies are not hiring new college graduates because of AI.


No. It's like the economy in 1991 or 2001. Nobody is sure of a profitable path forward. And it costs more to borrow money now than a few years back. Policy and priority instability are to blame.
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Anonymous wrote:I read Dune so I know how this all turns out. I’m not worried.


Wut? We do drugs and turn into giant worms? Not me, buddy.


I read Dune too, the whole series. My next career move is Mentat training. IYKYK. 😉📵🧮
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