> Your software will still be a mess unless it is small and written three times by the same person who knows what they are doing.
100% this! And I've recently been wondering whether this is the right workflow for AI-assisted development: use vibe-coding to build the one that you plan to throw away [0], use that to validate your assumptions and implement proper end-to-end tests, then recreate it again once or more with AI asked to try different approaches, and then eventually throw these away too and more manually create "the third one".
[0] "In most projects, the first system built is barely usable....Hence plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow." Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month
To all of you complaining about LLMs hallucinating, do try to give the same prompt to a kid on a sugar rush and let me know if you're getting more reliable responses.
I don't think Microsoft are concerned about the infrastructure costs (if they did, they probably would allow people to have local windows users). What they want is to control the ecosystem, and they are bothered about others looking to use their supposedly open source software independently from them.
Almost, but not quite. As per Karpathy's definition [0], it's not about not knowing to code (he obviously does), but rather not caring -
"fully give in to the vibes" and "forget that the code even exists". So the closest implementation to this ideal would probably be something like lovable.dev, that fully hides the code from you, because if you can't resist the need to look at the code, you're not fully "vibing".
Because things would happen on the platform, that would be bad PR. Availability might even go down. Who knows what kind of automatized things need to be kept in check daily.
> things would happen on the platform, that would be bad PR
They literally had (allegedly) significantly contributed to inciting a genocide [0]. PR doesn't get much worse than that, but it seems that we as a society, just don't care about these things that much any more. I really can't recall any case of any individual or organization going down because of PR issues, except for people in the entertainment industry; for some reason, we only expect good morals from our actors and comedians.
I suppose you could have custom CSS (e.g. via Stylebot) remove 90% of the elements and all but one of the pictures, but would that really make the amazon purchasing experience better?
Maybe ilit would. Because maybe the pictures might load consistently for once. Instead of this fat mess, where opening the pictures randomly lags, scrolling the page to the reviews is random, and the back button works depending on the orbit of the planet.
Even the search box itself lags when typing because somehow the text input is synced to the autocomplete search?
Maybe it's just me, but while I have an issue with text slop, GenAI images never bothered me. My experience is that they're only really used where the alternative would have been a lazy stock photo or clipart image. And in these cases, it seems to me that writing a prompt is actually more of an artistic expression than the even more minimal effort that they likely would have spent on taking the first image they would have found on google.
In theory there's no reason this has to be the case, but in practice there is a very strong correlation between using a blog using GenAI images and the blog being shit. On Substack in particular, use of GenAI images is a strong "don't waste your time here" signal.
It counts a lot for me. There's enough examples of humans playing table tennis; I'm very intrigued about how the same problem can be solved by alternate means.
I can only find papers from the late 1980s on this, but a professor around during the 60s told me hackers were working on robotic ping-pongers way back then.
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