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Cake day: September 1st, 2023

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  • Sure, you’re talking about the imbeciles using AI, but I dare you to tell the difference between AI and corporate talk. AI can make amazing marketing press releases because the human written ones didn’t make any sense anyway. They’re the same bullshit.

    And yes, code written by AI that is simply prompted by a junior or a person who know what they’re talking about, is going to be shit. A vibe coded project will show it’s colors. But you’re ignoring (or unaware) the output that ends up in an expert’s projects. You might think you can recognise it, but I can tell you, you won’t. And if you don’t want to believe me, try it yourself.

    I worked with a dude who used to finish his tasks pretty quickly and I just thought he was a good programmer. It finally dawned on me that he was using AI, because his level of the programming language wasn’t that high but the code constructs he was using were advanced and sometimes unnecessary. They weren’t bad and I’d let them through the review, because he got the job done, he understood most of what was going on and was learning the language as he went along. But I was only able to detect it because I spoke to him daily and could gauge his level of understanding more accurately. Had he submitted the code he did anonymously, in a one off PR to an opensource project that is anti-AI, I guarantee you, it would’ve gotten merged.


  • Interesting. LinkedIn’s job search sucks donkey dick. It’s so bad, I don’t even use it and resort to anything but LinkedIn. Unfortunately, it seems like the default place to post job ads, despite the awful search results.

    Even recruiters have to spray the pool with messages because they can’t whittle it down properly. I for example keep ending up in some pool with dot net crap, despite never touching that filthy crap on the job (installing a dot net rune time doesn’t count).

    I welcome a tool that is shamelessly built on top of it and honestly, I think relegating the parsing of LinkedIn job search results to a computer is the only sane way to use LinkedIn search.

    Bookmarking for when I do go lm a job search again.


  • It’s being realistic. Work done with or without AI isn’t distinguishable. You can be 100% against something, but if you cannot even recognise it when it’s in front of you, how are you going to ban it?

    No one is forcing anything. There’s nobody going around saying “you must use AI”. People are using it willingly and happily. Banning its use in a project will just lead to people using it surreptitiously.