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Was this article written by AI? If I argue with it, am I arguing with a real person? Is it written by a corporate shill? Again, if I argue with it, am I talking
by satisfice 1y ago
Was this article written by AI? If I argue with it, am I arguing with a real person? Is it written by a corporate shill? Again, if I argue with it, am I talking to a wall?
AI (and before that, corporations) makes skepticism more and more a basic survival skill.
Since this is partly an experience report, it is only as trustworthy as its author, whoever that is. What is this person risking by writing it?
The content seems plausible to me. However, what I’m missing here is:
- how does he test?
- how does he keep himself sharp while his tools are doing so much?
- How does he model the failure modes of this approach, or does he just feel it?
I am not having the same feeling of success as this guy is as I experiment with the same tech. Maybe he’s better than me at using it. Or maybe he’s easily impressed.
- dps 1y agoAuthor here… I wrote it, I used Claude for proofreading/editing as mentioned at the end. Anyway point is, real human here! I do still read the code _except_ when I am consciously vibe coding a non production thing where I will know empirically that it worked or not by using it. I’m definitely not using agents to do all my coding (as I hope is reasonably) clear from the post. But they have crossed this line from pointless to try to genuinely useful for many real world problems in just the last couple of months in my experience.