We’ve all seen the stories. Someone “buys” a book, audiobook, TV show, movie, video game, app, whatever, and then later complains that they can no longer access it. Maybe the platform it was purchased from lost the rights to that thing; maybe some music or art it used ran into a copyright dispute; maybe the user’s account was unceremoniously banned; maybe the whole platform just disappeared…
It is common knowledge amongst AI-enhanced superhuman programmers that the best way to prevent your AI coding agents from hallucinating is to tell them not to hallucinate . The 10x programmers also understand that the number of hallucinations avoided is directly proportional to how much CAPSLOCK was utilized while writing the instruction. x-cmd : Shell Superpowers for AI Agents DO NOT make up…
AI is here to stay: possibly the most annoying mantra of the billionaire-worshiping tech-bro cult that’s arisen in this golden age of slop. Here to stay as a cheap replacement for entry level jobs? Probably not. Here to stay as an inexpensive way to automate creative output? Unlikely. The only reason AI was ever cheap was because the tech giants were willing to hemorrhage money in a desperate…
Is that an established product, beloved by a loyal user base? Boring! Put an AI on it! Does your product have a reputation for detailed reports, accurate information, and good usability? Pedestrian! Put an AI on it! Managed to retain senior software engineers who consistently make thoughtful, high-quality contributions to your product? Who needs ’em?! Put an AI on it! Spent all your capital…
It’s probably fine—unless you care about self-improvement or taking pride in your work. To be clear, when I write “using AI generated code” in this opinion, I’m referring to letting an AI write code for you—I’m not addressing the use of AI as a learning tool to gain better insight into programming languages and libraries in order to improve the code that you write yourself. (I have opinions on…