Oh, if you’re in the business of compiling a comprehensive taxonomy of ways the current AI thing may be fake, you should also add:
Vibe coders and “10x’d engineers”, who (on this model) would be falling into one of the failure modes outlined here: producing applications/features that didn’t need to exist, creating pointless code bloat (which helpfully show up in productivity metrics like “volume of code produced” or “number of commits”), or “automatically generating” entire codebases in a way that feels magical, then spending so much time bugfixing them it eats up ~all perceived productivity gains.
e/acc and other Twitter AI fans, who act like they’re bleeding-edge transhumanist visionaries/analysts/business gurus/startup founders, but who are just shitposters/attention-seekers who will wander off and never look back the moment the hype dies down.
Oh, if you’re in the business of compiling a comprehensive taxonomy of ways the current AI thing may be fake, you should also add:
Vibe coders and “10x’d engineers”, who (on this model) would be falling into one of the failure modes outlined here: producing applications/features that didn’t need to exist, creating pointless code bloat (which helpfully show up in productivity metrics like “volume of code produced” or “number of commits”), or “automatically generating” entire codebases in a way that feels magical, then spending so much time bugfixing them it eats up ~all perceived productivity gains.
e/acc and other Twitter AI fans, who act like they’re bleeding-edge transhumanist visionaries/analysts/business gurus/startup founders, but who are just shitposters/attention-seekers who will wander off and never look back the moment the hype dies down.
True, but I feel a bit bad about punching that far down.