Being Left Behind Enjoyer@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
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“synthetic training data corpus”: eating its own shit
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Being Left Behind Enjoyer@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
That some people find “text box that spits out a broken version of what they want and then you yell at it until it’s sufficing” more convenient than using existing tools says a lot more about existing tools than about the text box.
E.g. programming has long been extremely overwrought and complex for no reason other than enterprise wankery and gatekeeping, see the various frameworks from Big Tech.
The same companies now rent you expensive tools that “make programming easy”, while their overly complex frameworks and environments are free of course.
Instead of fixing the problem we’re now having two problems.
(The same is true in other industries.)
Being Left Behind Enjoyer@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
I don’t get why people think when one industry does something unsafe (e.g. cars) of course sales moratoriums, investigations, fines and recalls are in order;—but if another industry does (deadly advice in “AI” summaries) it’s fine.
Being Left Behind Enjoyer@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
This isn’t trivial stuff. Google has ~15 billion queries a day.
Let’s say 50% of those contain an “AI” summary.
Of these 50%—lets be generous again—10% contain grave factual errors and made-up stuff.
And then let’s be extremely generous and say 1% of queries ask for something like medical advice.
15,000,000,000 x 0.5 x 0.1 x 0.01 x 365 =2,737,500,000
That’s ~2.7 billion wrong, dangerous, misleading, maybe deadly “AI” summaries per year.
Being Left Behind Enjoyer@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
I don’t get why people think when one industry does something unsafe (e.g. cars) of course sales moratoriums, investigations, fines and recalls are in order;—but if another industry does (deadly advice in “AI” summaries) it’s fine.
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“agentic autonomous system”: cronjob
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It’s amazing how many replies I’m getting that “vibe coding is fine, it doesn’t matter if software actually works”.
People literally die or get hurt all the time when websites or apps don’t work, because they get false information or they’re incorrectly flagged or they hit some edge case and stuff just doesn’t happen.
Power gets turned off. Medications don’t arrive. Accounts get frozen. Credit scores ruined. Personal information leaked.
If you don’t take making software seriously you should fuck right off and leave the field.
Being Left Behind Enjoyer@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
There was one guy who tried three times to provoke me into a reaction (I blocked them).
The way people identify as “AI” enthusiasts is indistinguishable from religious extremism.
Being Left Behind Enjoyer@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
It’s amazing how many replies I’m getting that “vibe coding is fine, it doesn’t matter if software actually works”.
People literally die or get hurt all the time when websites or apps don’t work, because they get false information or they’re incorrectly flagged or they hit some edge case and stuff just doesn’t happen.
Power gets turned off. Medications don’t arrive. Accounts get frozen. Credit scores ruined. Personal information leaked.
If you don’t take making software seriously you should fuck right off and leave the field.
Being Left Behind Enjoyer@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
Would you have a vibe surgeon operate on you?
A vibe mechanic fix the plane you’re on?
A vibe engineer calculate load-bearing structure requirements for the bridge you’re driving over?
But you’re fine with vibe coding?
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“Without thinking”: without thinking
“With thinking”: without thinking
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Oh look they’re doing exactly what they said they would do in Project 2025; you know that document all centrists said that “they don’t really mean it” about.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/07/climate-assessments-chris-wright-trump