Simon Willison finally admits that his overreliance on LLMs is causing him to lose his marbles.
Second high profile AI bro whoās even vaguely touched on this. Previously: Armin Ronacher expressed his concern about AI psychosis after āGas Townā
Hi fellow ex-ibmer! When I was there 15 years ago we were working on replacing COBOL applications written in the 1960s with modern trendy languages like java. Back then we had a deterministic COBOL to java transpiler but according to friends who are still there they have tripled down on it with genai. Andā¦guess whatā¦ No self-respectong CTO or CIO of a fortune 500 is going to migrate from battle tested for 50+ years, business logic to vibe coded slop if they want to remain employable.
Congratulations on getting out btw!
IBM u-turning on āwe only need AIā and tripling down on hiring US graduates
I was hoping Arvind Krishna would fall on his sword after this epic U-turn and that maybe Nadella would be nextā¦ One can dream right?
Edit: thinking about itā¦ IBM have always been big on sacking senior devs and replacing them with graduates so this isnāt really anything newā¦
Imagine youāre a 10 person startup and instead of paying a few hundred $$ for an invoicing tool, and endpoint security tool, an expenses and time tracking tool you get your 6-8 developers to vibe code those from scratch too and maintain them forever costing thousands in Claude credits and 10s of thousands in salaries. Thatās definitely a great use of your investorsā funds and totally not a good way to fudge your taxes, lose data, get hacked and end up being sued because the engineers, stretched way too thin, let Claude commit tax fraud on your behalf.
This was just such an unbelievably bad take from investors and people like Matt Stoller, the latter of whom might know monopoly enforcement but donāt know software engineering (or the Gell Man Amnesia effect apparently)
If famed bag holder SoftBank are starting to raise their eyebrows when asked about future investments, the jig is definitely up
Weirdly the media are reporting that they have made a profit on their investments but when you actually read the articles, they are saying that the magical imaginary money that their OpenAI shares are worth has gone up
AI bros are seizing the means of computation: RAM, GPUs, SSDs and now HDDsā¦
I donāt think thereās an actual conspiracy, just lots of MBAs following their noses towards the $$$.
That said, time to buy a new lipo battery for that 10 year old laptop in the loft and stick Linux on it - before the lithium miners announce theyāve sold the next 12 months global supply of Lithium to Altman because he needs it to sleep at nightā¦