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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • It’s not realistic to expect no AI assistance in coding in 2026.

    It’s also not a stand-in for a human. There’s a huge field of gray where it’s unclear how much of it was fully vibe coded vs how much is carefully hand reviewed and/or written.

    I’ve been a professional developer for decades and I’ve done both. Obviously I’ve hand coded stuff for many years. The fully vibe coded stuff is personal, to test and learn the capabilities of the tech. My professional stuff I watch much more closely, and I’m much more targeted in what I’m having the AI do.

    That said, if I were gonna use this I’d actually review the code. I’m not recommending this guy’s stuff, but you can’t rule it out on the basis of ai assistance alone.






  • If the Chinese are behind this, which I think is reasonably likely, they’ve played it beautifully. Their hands look pretty clean while they manipulate Putin to run all their campaigns through Russia.

    And the only real evidence we have is that nearly everything that happens benefits China.

    • Huge damage to America’s soft power
    • Damage to America’s military
    • Reduced power of the dollar
    • Weakening of NATO
    • Destruction of the US green energy production, especially EVs.
    • US operational security is the weakest it has ever been
    • Loss of moral authority to contest imperialism, such as Hong Kong and Taiwan



  • It’s going to get much, much worse. Ellison has bought all the traditional media, and social media is going to be overrun with AI comments pushing talking points. It’s really not hard to get AI to say the same thing in slightly different ways 10,000 times. And it’s going to work. It’s pretty easy for 10,000 “people” to bully you off of making contrary comments on Lemmy.

    I’m almost tempted to get ahead of it. If you can’t beat it, join them? Maybe I should see if my AI bots can scream louder than the malicious AI bots. Of course I won’t have quite the same VPN resources as a nation state.