It’s worse— it’s seeking to replace every single aspect of what it means to be YOU in the world. Some people are literally trying to “fire themselves” and be replaced with digital twins. Perhaps those people are independently wealthy and also have no need of human connection? For the rest of us, it is a sickening prospect.

AI is automated irresponsibility, and it is nothing like any earlier transition.

When a technology trend means people literally won’t be able to tell if you are living or dead, and also stop caring about the difference— that’s unprecedented in the history of humans.

This article is 99.9% empty space.

It’s nice to see something on HN that isn’t about writing a prompt so that you can pretend to work.

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Please don’t say “okay, thanks, that’s great” unless you mean it.

She wasn’t hating it in the abstract. Read the article. She’s not upset with mathematics.

“Worse: it's a conversation killer. There's nothing to respond to. Your wall of text suppresses dialogue. They can't reply, can't push back, can't clarify. It's a weapon disguised as helpfulness.”

I can reply. I can push back. I can clarify. I am not helpless.

"Sorry, I asked you, if I wanted to ask AI I'd do it myself, if you don't know just say"

That's a good one.

"TLDR?"

absolutely right

“Eval” is not testing. This post is written as is no one ever heard of a thing called testing.

For the uninitiated: if you think testing is nothing more than simple operations and assertions, then you don’t know anything important about testing.

Look at that? Downvoted. Probably by no one who has ever studied testing.

AI cannot take responsibility. It will not indemnify you. My decade is going just fine.

I don't get it. How is knowing that AI itself will not take responsibility or that it will not indemnify its users make your decade any better? Is your line of reasoning that using AI will very likely prove to be a bad idea in the long term and thus perfectly rational people with the same priors as yours will abstain from training or utilizing AI?

I am saying that AI cannot take responsibility. My line of reasoning assumes that you understand that responsibility/accountability is a crucial element in offering products and services in society.

Although software companies like to disclaim all warranties to the extent the law allows, neither the market nor the FTC will allow you to breach contracts, make outrageous false claims, or offer products that destroy life and property.

AI cannot and will not behave responsibly. I’m not opposed to AI, but I use it as a tool that I supervise. I review and test what it produces. People and companies that fail to do that will ruin their reputations, I predict.

Thanks for clarifying, I suppose I mostly agree, and also hope that misbehaving companies will be punished.

With that said, I'm very concerned that the coming decade will be a bumpy ride for all of us.

The author of this post seems to have left something out. He never clearly states his thesis.

From what I can piece together he seems to think that agentic coded projects are being routinely dismissed as mere slop, and he feels that is wrong. But I’m not sure how that connects with the argument that if vibe coding were so great why haven’t we seen a duplicate of photoshop?

I can argue that vibe coding is bad even if someone produces something with it that seems good. Not saying I necessarily want to, but I could. Just because you have “90 test cases” that pass, or that you personally are happy with your own product is not proof of the success of vibe coding. (It is evidence, perhaps, but not proof… The evidence can be debated.)