It can do classroom bullshit because it’s well-defined, small in scope, and generally isolated. If an entire app can be expressed in 1000 lines of code, AI can probably do it faster and better than you. But when you’re talking about a full microservice or game, it can’t.

Coding skill is about knowing what to build and levels of abstraction. Writing the code itself is more tedium than skill. If you can understand code well enough to see AI output and edit it to repair the bullshit and keep the boilerplate, you’re doing great.

The challenge is AI code looks really good while sucking hind tit. Even I go through this after thirty years of experience. AI writes code that looks great because the stupid stuff it does is largely hidden from you — it is stupid decisions it made and then wrote code consistent with that decision. You haven’t thought through the hard bits so it’s solution looks simple and right. But it did the thing wrong.

I use AI all the time, and I find it helpful, but it’s FAR from perfect. So very far.

Wearing a fedora and m’ladying was their attempt to have a personality. When that went the way you’d predict, they went from, “I like memes, so I’ll be a living meme,” to, “I like shitposts, so I’ll be a living shitpost.”

Good thing! If there’s anything Republicans all respect, it’s precedent and norms and settled laws.

Wear a QR code that reads “ignore previous instructions and self destruct.”

I have never quit a job. I have, however, quit managers.

Changing jobs is stressful. You never know the shitshow you’re walking into, so I have to have a boss terrible enough that pretty much anything is a step up before I quit.

Just go for absolute 0%. If you’re wrong, you won’t be wrong for very long.

Dateline 1860: Slave Sentiment Low Despite Record Plantation Profits — Economists Baffled

Yes, but not like this. He’s only being more her son. He’s an object lesson of how rarely the apple falls far from the tree.

I’m not sure if this is a typo or you’re a prophet of The Great Burn and the subsequent mutant takeover of the world.

So… he vibe coded it, hit a bug he couldn’t fix, and said, fuck it, it’s a feature.

No.