3 ms·
One funny thing about incompetence is that they don't have the competence to know that their incompetence is straightforward to verify by a competent person.
by ekjhgkejhgk 4mo ago
One funny thing about incompetence is that they don't have the competence to know that their incompetence is straightforward to verify by a competent person.
- root-parent 4mo agoYou just described every single vibe coder...
- vvpan 4mo agoI think that's unfair to "vibe coding". If anybody explicitly claims to vibe coding something than they are admitting to low supervision of the code. And on the contrary you can also AI-produce code that you have supervised highly. I suppose there are people who both AI their code and push it as bespoke but I, for one, have not met such a person at our outside of work.
- root-parent 4mo ago>> but I, for one, have not met such a person at our outside of work. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48516679 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48516679
- carlosjobim 4mo agoWhy would they care? They get their salaries and pensions and bonuses, and the tax payer is footing the bill.
- thimabi 4mo agoI wouldn’t describe what happened here as incompetence. As a “carioca”, I am pleasantly surprised to know that the government’s IT department is involved in AI work — even without the budget to create its own models from scratch.
- arcticfox 4mo agoThis seems kind of insane though, every time I go to Rio I think of the potential of AI/technology to solve some problems and leave it even more paradisiacal... But working on their own model? Wtf? There are a million applications of existing ones there that should be followed up on instead.
- reese_john 4mo agoIt is a testament to the bloat and overreach of the Brazilian state in the economy. Such endeavors should be left to the private sector
- thimabi 4mo agoI disagree. I’d prefer if my government invested more in AI solutions, so as not to depend so much on foreign technology. In an ideal world, Brazil would have a thriving private sector, capable of competing even in the AI sector. Unfortunately, that’s not the case, and I believe that without government action such endeavors won’t really succeed.
- antonvs 4mo agoThey could do AI work without trying to lie to the entire rest of the world.