Guy at work did a whole mini project with just LLMs and prompting. I asked him some questions about how it works and some implementation details, and he had no idea. Great. I'm going to have to maintain this thing, probably.

If you ask AI to create the shell of a class for you with 3 variables (two ints and one Vector as you defined elsewhere in your project), that’s different than saying “make me Facebook 2” and expecting everything to go well.

Ethics of current LLMs in a still-capitalist-materially society aside, the problem with AI is that management wants the robots to do all the work so their jobs become easier and their stocks go up. But that shit just doesn’t DO that. LLMs don’t think. They are statistical autocomplete. Programming is not trivial, no matter how much it may seem that way because we have trivialized as much of it as possible to make it useful.

Thought it was going to be ctrl+r

I didn't know that one for years.

(Searches command history.)

except instead of ls it runs rm -rf /

...pressing the 'up' arrow ten times in a shell might let you avoid typing 'ls'

I feel seen. But in my defense, that directory was like, 6 levels deep

Yes, and you can make a door by driving a car through a wall. The outcome may be less than optimal though.

So ai sharing time. I was at a ai hands on for a monitoring company. One guy was going around showing off this thing. Its a dashboard and he made it by telling the ai to look at a type of data and then asking it to find out what the data was about and then asking it to put together a dash based on the datas applications. The result was a real nice dash. So I say. But do you understand the dashboard. Could you use it. He was like. Well presumably people who know about the particular data will be able to use it. So the only thing he actually knows about the dashboard is its pretty.

But doesn't pressing the up arrow 10 times (and reading each command) waste both time and effort compared to just pressing 2 buttons?

I've been trying full on vibe coding the last few weeks to see where it's at. I don't feel any less exhausted at the end of the day.

They absolutely save you wall-time, huge amounts of it. At least if you're competent.