In this informal poll, only a fifth of all coders and software engineers have gone over full time to vibe coding. Most use vibe coding; few use it exclusively. Most still do some hand coding. Amateurs without considerable coding experience should consider carefully.
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Altman Brockman promises versus Elon’s character assessment debate
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The question of whether Altman and Brockman did what they promised ≠ the question of whether Elon is a good person. Musk argued that Altman and Brockman broke promises and abused the notion of a nonprofit. All that can be true, *regardless of what you think of Elon*.
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Musk’s Honesty: Omission as Potential Deception
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but if you wanted to make an argument that Musk lied by omission, in the above, i could see that.
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Microsoft OpenAI Divorce: Strategic Separation Underway
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The divorce between Microsoft and OpenAI that I projected three years ago is now underway. Time for everyone to start seeing other people.
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Sam Altman’s Documented Lies: Critical Timeline Evidence
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i have been documented Sam’s lies for years, eg. this was August 2024: https://
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icle/2024/aug/03/open-ai-sam-altman-chatgpt-gary-marcus-taming-silicon-valley
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AI Safety Risks: When Hype Outpaces Responsibility
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If a major car company had AI fan boys and released a car with loose lug nuts and the wheels came off, after hyping it as the greatest thing ever, and a bunch of people died, those fan boys would say “y’all shoulda known”.
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Correcting User Misconceptions About LLM Behavior
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that said, another tweet by the same user does correctly assess what’s wrong with most user’s model of what LLMs say.
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Coding Agents Overhyped Cannot Reliably Obey System Prompts
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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.
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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.