How it started vs. How it's going
How it started vs. How it's going
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Show this soydev his place
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What cracks me up is that he is not technical so it takes him longer than usual to figure it out :D :D :D :D
He usually figures these things out much quicker but this time he is struck by some "not being technical" illness. As soon as it passes, he will figure it out as usual.
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AI will not replace software engineers, exhibit fuck knows how many.
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His first mistake is to call it AI.
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This is what FAFO in public looks like. Gold!
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As you know I'm not technical. AI doesn't write robust code, is that the joke?
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Yes, that's the joke.
AI creates almost (but not) good enough stuff really fast. And occasionally straight up hallucinates stuff that is meaningless or worse.
So this person has a huge stack of functional but broken crap, and it's blaming X for their woes.
There's an old saying that goes roughly "It takes four times the experience to maintain a program as it took to write it. So anyone writing the most clever program they can think of is, by definition, not competent to maintain it."
In this case, it's extra funny, because neither the AI nor the AI user has the faintest idea how the generated code works. So maintaining it is almost certainly 1000% outside their abilities.
So they've paid an AI for the
privilegeunpleasant daily panic of learning everything they need to learn after the app has gone to production, rather than before.
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I've always appreciated the feature of AI coding tools, where they confidently tell you they've done something completely wrong. Then if you call them on it, they super-confidently say: "Of course, here's what needs to be done..."
Then proceed to do something even worse.
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Or when you say there's something wrong and the new version is just the same with comments
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This cannot NOT be satire, come on. It's too fucking funny
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Bet you $1,000 the credentials are stored in plain text.
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What are they, Sony?
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Imagine needing to understand a thing to build something. /s
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Just speak the incantation of motive energy and light the incense to soothe the machine spirit.
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Can I get this emotion bottled? I want to experience it at full strength later
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Just hold your phone over it. You'll feel a tingly sensation in your intestines, but be not afraid, you just got the emotion bottled.
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I want it powdered so I can snort it.
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I wanted to edit my Ghostty themes but found out a lot of the colors are in #hexadecimal notation. I like #rrggbb percentage style colors (b/c they are easy to tweak by hand) and I couldn't find an online color picker that would output that format, so I used deepseek (free) & now have a scrappy ass one w Python & Tkinter completely via "vibe" coding (I call it Clyde Color Picker. It's adorable).
Pretty awesome when you're just some dumbass who needs a very specific tool and not trying to fleece people.
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I use AI toolings to generate snippets of bash scripts because I can't be fucked to remember that syntax. Obviously not for anything with high risks or that I can't easily verify. But things like parsing through mass amounts of files
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I wonder if the website did the thing where it lists their big customers like a trophy cabinet on the main landing page.
It would probably make a good list of places to sell snake oil
Also love that this is all evidence to back up the premise that building the happy path of an application is generally easy, one of the main skills in software engineering is ensuring the unhappy paths are covered sufficiently. I can say I've started a bank and keep people's money in my wardrobe, I'll be providing the service of holding their money—I'll also probably get robbed sharpish because I'm not skilled in the kind of security needed to avoid that.
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Any “customers” landed are going to be friends and family, if not just outright fakes invented by leo.
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Lol what a gimp
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Hey, gimp is a nice open source image editor, don't insult it by comparing it to this guy
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Lol, I'm surprised it only took two days.
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2 days for him to realize something wrong
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I'm surprised it took two whole days :p
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F around and find out
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If I were
leojr94, I’d be mad as hell about this impersonator soiling the good name ofleojr94—most users probably don’t even notice the underscore.
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Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
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