I can't wait to see how RFK Jr. manages to turn this one around! /s

I'm not so sure the "open source" part is working either when you think about how AI tools were trained.

It's really sad, because the accessibility of developing software and collaborative nature of the open source community is a big part of what drew me to software engineering as a career, and it's always been one of the first things I mention about why I love it. But, of course, these fucking evil companies found a way to take every individual part of something good and twist it into something awful.

It's stuff like this that leaves me completely hopeless that the AI industry will ever see the crash that it 100% deserves.

The most frustrating is when someone asks me for help because they're stuck then hits me with a barrage of "chatgpt said xxx" complete nonsense while I'm trying to assess the situation

That is the absolute worst. I've even gotten "Because Claude said so" in response to code review comments asking why they made a certain design decision.

they let off the gas

Man, I'm so jealous. My company is too large for me to have any sway, and they just added AI tool adoption as one of the key performance indicators on our performance reviews. 😔

I am staunchly anti-AI, but the company I am working for unfortunately pushes AI tool adoption extremely aggressively. A lot of the things in the post are similar to sentiments I have. Specifically the sections around vibe coding offloading the burden of work to the reviewer and how to mitigate that by pushing back against those sorts of PRs.

I agree with you, though, that the post ignores the simplest solution of just not using AI tools. It may be the case that the author doesn't have the ability to enforce that, but it should still definitely be listed as the first and most logical solution.

I'm at the point where I'm seriously considering creating a blocklist of certain engineers at work that spam out vibe coded trash PRs and informing my manager that I will not do code reviews for anyone on the list.

Upgrade it to Cat6a.

Sharing this from the article to hopefully save the post a few downvotes:

Coding was never the bottleneck. Not recently. Not in the last decade. Arguably not since we stopped feeding punchcards into machines.

I'm not even going to bother commenting on that train wreck of a post, but I just wanted to mention that I hate the writing style of programming-related LinkedIn posts. They're just chock-full of sweeping generalizations presented as absolute truth in an extremely patronizing tone.

Why can't people just say, "In my opinion, X technology is a better fit for Y situation for Z reason," instead of "Every time you encounter X, you must do Y, otherwise you're dead wrong."

It's just simultaneously so arrogant and also aggressively ignorant. If someone spoke to me like that in real life, I would never want to speak with them again. And these people are broadcasting this shit to their entire professional network.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 launched with what some suspected to be AI-generated textures that, as it clarified to El País, were then replaced with custom assets in a swift patch five days after release.

Fuck using Gen AI to replace human-made art, and fair enough for pulling the award, but I do think it's worth making it clear exactly how much of the art is/was AI. And the answer is, very little at launch and none currently.

This is AI generated (source). I spent a while looking at the image trying to find the usual tells. It's kinda scary how hard it's getting to tell AI generated images apart from real ones. I'm sure with a powerful enough model, enough iterations, and the right prompt, it's almost impossible to tell in some cases.

Thanks for the source. After watching the video, the "Mr. Japan" bit was honestly much less noteworthy than the completely incoherent rambling about sending letters to countries congratulating them on the privilege of being able to "shop in the USA". He just kept repeating that and then naming random percentages. It felt like I was having a stroke trying to understand what he was even trying to say.

Looking forward to seeing this exact headline on NotTheOnion in a few months.