ahistorical immaterialistApr 26, 2025

I need to be very clear, that the push towards "vibe coding" - that is, deliberately deskilling people - is because AI code assistants are an (increasingly expensive) subscription service.

If you know how to code, you can just write Python, C, Java, R, PHP, whatever for free and make things. You may not own the tools of production, but at least you're not renting them.

If you have been deskilled so you only know how to vibe code, you will be paying for that privilege forever.

This also goes, by the way, for researchers who are starting to be convinced they don't need to learn how to be scientists anymore, because "the AI" can just do the science for them. Nope.

Show threadJustin Derrick

@jimbob My sincere hope is that AI is exposed for the wasteful fraud it proves itself to be (over and over) before it ruins large segments of the economy and society.

The most egregious failure of AI is its inability to admit that it doesn't know what it very clearly doesn't know -- and instead, produces confident-sounding bullshit.

The dot-bomb-v2.0 is long overdue.

Apr 26, 2025 at 11:47pmWeb
Show threadAwk & shaApr 27, 2025
@JustinDerrick @jimbob I hate that I could drop the name of any of our unserious (industry, national) leaders in place of AI and it would be just as accurate. Our cultural moment really is the final approach of falsehood’s flight and the truth limping after it is lost over the horizon.
Show threadRobin AdamsApr 27, 2025
@JustinDerrick @jimbob I'm very worried that when the bubble bursts, governments will decide AI is too big to fail and is now essential infrastructure. Public money to be poured into the black hole indefinitely...