This is totally wrong. Blaming the user is missing the point that (a) coding agents have been overhyped and (b) can’t reliably obey the rules given to them in system prompts and other guardrails.
@garymarcus
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LeCun criticism debate: LLM limitations and AI community tensions
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And LeCun doesn’t? I sometimes come off as aggressive because he was so hostile to me for saying that LLMs have limits, back in 2019… Bye now.
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China embraces AI wisdom while US dismisses innovation
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yep, that’s what I do. I am increasingly concerned that people in China are soaking up my wisdom, while a lot of people in the US try to dismiss me. i don’t think that is going to end well.
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AI Agents Rollout Too Fast: Safety Concerns Paramount
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AI agents are wildly premature technology that is being rolled out way too fast. The deepest lesson about the vibe coded AI agent disaster story that is running around is NOT about losing your data. 𝗜𝘁’𝘀 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗔𝗜 𝘀𝗮𝗳𝗲𝘁𝘆. The user wasn’t (totally) naive.
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AI Security Risks: User Responsibility and System Vulnerabilities
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People keep blaming the users for the growing number of vibe-coded reasoners. Doing so is *half* right. Users *are*screwing up – by letting vibe coded stuff access their files, without proper backups, without proper monitoring, without adequate sysadmin, etc. But that’s
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AI Coding Agents and Backup Best Practices for Developers
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“Always keep a separate backup.” For sure, every experienced programmer should know this. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘷𝘪𝘣𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵. And we now have a legion of synthetic coding agents (like Cursor) that
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System Prompts as AI Safety Mechanism: Effectiveness Questions
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shouldn’t the system prompt prevent it?
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Expert Experience and Responsible AI Technology Use
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the point is that people with considerable experience shouldn’t be playing around with this stuff.
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AI Safety: User Responsibility and Proper Model Deployment
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the difference is that we don’t *hype* giving 12 year-olds bulldozers. *of course* it’s a kind of user error when a model destroys all of user’s data and they didn’t have a backup. that’s the point. vibe coding without considerable experience is like driving without a license.
