I can do a project that took me weeks/months much faster now as long as I don't have to involve other people in the decisions.

This. So much this.

Are AI models incredibly powerful tools? Yes.

Do they have the ability to telepathically sense what the various stakeholders in the development process actually wanted? No.

I worked at Meta and we had AGI in the form of very competent ICs - getting anything done was often super painful because "org priority" this and "buy in" that

Ah, you're point that AI can't solve the problem of conflicting requirements is right.

But you're strongly echoing the parent, who's then essentially saying "just don't talk to other people and you won't have conflicting requirements", which I'd say is strongly wrong. Complexity involves conflicting requirements. These will exist in a single developer complexity gets to certain level.

“Just don’t talk to other people” is self-evidently unviable when you’re developing software in a corporate environment.

My point is that what you can achieve when prototyping or writing hobby projects is not replicable in the kind of corporate coding that pays people’s bills.

No, they'll just hack your colleagues laptop to "telepathically sense what [they] actually wanted".

I feel like this was always true to an extent, now product and design are just more tolerant of it because leadership is cracking a whip over their heads because things are supposed to be much faster “because ai” so things like pixel perfect hand offs, adhering to existing design system, making sure you are aligned with the brand, copy is reviewed with marketing go out the window. Now everything is shipping in hackathon mode with an eng driving decisions they really should not be.

I should frame this for the wall behind me when I run meetings with my team. It’s the core problem with AI in coding.

Isn't the core problem that everyone thinks they can now "code", and you have to justify the invisible bits, such as UX and maintenance.

We've got a customer success manager using Claude Code and getting PRs rubber stamped to prod where I work. I've given up caring about the quality of the code at this point. Executives won't care about code quality until the ship is literally sinking. Oh well.

Even projects that you could have done without having to look anything up?

In my experience, it seems to mostly save time on things you don't really know that well, whilst depriving you of the chance to learn new things.

0% is the expected answer, because otherwise why wouldn't you be doing everything you could to stop this?

The chance that biomedical and viral research could also kill all humans is greater than 0%.

Should we stop doing that also?

Crispr gene editing is an amazing and terrifying technology. We have the capability to edit people in permenant ways which could be passed to all future generations with unknown side effects and consequences.

I believe now we only have a shaky agreement by researchers and countries to "promise" not to do this due to the unforeseen dangers to humanity.

How do you know he isn't? At least propose what you think he should do instead.

How is a delivery service unproductive? Division of labor is one of the most fundamental principles in our economic system. You being able to do it yourself in your free time doesn't make it unproductive. You could also make your own clothes, that doesn't make the clothes industry an unproductive endeavor.

Let's say you do all that. What about literally every other country on earth that is not the home of Openai/Anthropic/Google?

I don't know if Claude Code is actually a great example. If you have used it for longer periods of time, you will have noticed how insanely buggy it is. And for every bug that they finally fix, there seems to be a new one introduced. I don't even mind vibecoding. I have vibecoded a couple of tools that me and my coworkers use every day to make our lives easier but I'm not going to pretend they are anywhere close to something that I would release to the public.

It describes incestuous child rape, because the author describes his experience of being raped. Victims speaking about their abuse, now that is one step too far and needs to be censored.

I knew there had to be a rational explanation as to why this book was chosen as a "bad book'.

Just tried and it's blocked on Telekom with the default DNS.

That's completely different. Imagine you are reading a book and the words only get revealed to you at 1 word a second. You would get annoyed if your natural reading speed was higher than that.

Same with a video. A lot of people speak considerably slower than you could process the information they are conveying, so you speed it up. You still get the same content and are not skipping parts as you would when skimming a book.

Especially since the only party to the right of Merz are actual right-wing extremists.

On the other hand, in modern European politics very often anything that is traditional right wing is labeled "far right extremists" anyway at this point, especially if they are a bit too critical of the EU and open borders. The only thing 'acceptable' is "centre right".

For instance in France, at this point, the National Rally (Le Pen) is not really more in the right than the traditional conservative/right wing party was in the 70s and 80s (with years in government). It is plainly just "the right" and largest party in Parliament, yet they are labeled dangerous far right extremists because it is (less and less) helpful politically...

Not sure exactly how the political positioning is in Germany but overall "far right" and "right-wing extremists" have lost all meaning generally in Europe because those terms are so abused. The current German government coalition does not seem to particularly reflect the democratic result of the latest election (majority on the right), same as in France.

I tried it out because of your comment and the very first prompt Gemini 2.5 Pro hallucinated a non-existant plugin including detailed usage instructions.

Not really my idea of good.

This has consistently been my experience with every LLM I have tried. Everybody says "Oh, you tried it one the model from two months ago? Doesn't count, the new ones are sooo much better". So I try the new one and it still hallucinates.

Same thing, I thought I would give it a shot and it got the first solution so wrong in a simple nextjs typescript project I laughed out. It was fast but incorrect.

Can you provide your prompt? This hasn't matched my experience. You can also try enabling search grounding in the right hand bar. You have to also explicitly tell it in your prompt to use grounding with Google Search, but I've had very good success with that even for recent or niche plugins/libraries.

So glad we're pinning the success and learning of new technology on random anecdotes. Do pro AI people not see how untenable it is where everything is a rumor?

It is only a rumor to people who refuse to put in effort.

I'd rather put my effort into developing my own skills, not hand-holding a hallucinating robot.

I enjoyed the clarity of that sentence. It's wild to read. Some people are choosing the hand-holding of the hallucinating robot instead of developing their skills, and simultaneously training their replacement (or so the bosses hope, anyway).

I wonder if "robot" was being used here in its original sense too of a "forced worker" rather than the more modern sense of "mechanical person". If not, I propose it.

What does this even mean? Lol.