David GerardFeb 16

Most of the AI coding claims are conveniently nondisprovable. What studies there are show it not helping coding at all, or making it worse

But SO MANY LOUD ANECDOTES! Trust me my friend, I am the most efficient coder in the land now. No, you can't see it. No, I didn't measure. But if you don't believe me, you are clearly a fool.

These guys had one good experience with the bot, they got one-shotted, and now if you say "perhaps the bot is not all that" they act like you're trying to take their cocaine away.

Show threadErik AblesonFeb 21
@davidgerard @sfoskett
Show threadWendy Nather
@erik @davidgerard @sfoskett Wrong picture on the right. It shouldn’t be a greybeard, who would know better. It should be a wet-behind-the-ears techboi
Feb 21 at 5:45pmWeb
Show threadErik AblesonFeb 21
@wendynather @davidgerard @sfoskett True, but I’m too lazy to photoshop in a more age-appropriate figure
Show threadReimarMar 5
@wendynather @erik @davidgerard @sfoskett He looks like Rick Rubin, the „legendary music producer“ and intellectual charlatan who wrote a pompous manifesto for vibe coding: https://www.thewayofcode.com
Rick Rubin | The Way of Code: The Timeless Art of Vibe Coding

Rick Rubin brings ancient wisdom to the modern age in The Way of Code, a meditation on the art and science of vibe coding. With Claude by Anthropic, the Grammy-award winning producer and author of The Creative Act turns philosophy into practice with artifacts that can be creatively modified with AI.

The Way of Code
Show threadStephen FoskettMar 5
@reimar @wendynather @erik @davidgerard Or more likely had AI write it for him
Show threadErik AblesonMar 5
@sfoskett @reimar @wendynather @davidgerard I just found this on the web. I've seen a number of variants but this was the nicest of the lot