Phil Stevens :tinoflag:RE: https://hachyderm.io/@jenniferplusplus/116206213357860863
This encapsulates why the whole #AI craze is so incredibly harmful to our relationship with technology...and expertise.
Developers of hardware and software spent three quarters of a century striving for a goal of determinism. They knew that if technology was to be accepted to handle important tasks, its outputs had to be beyond reproach.
Consistent. Repeatable. Verifiable.
We never would have seen adoption of computing in banking, finance, or insurance without a track record that satisfied the shareholders of those industries. Vibe coding would not have put humans on the moon and brought them home in one piece with under 100 KB of memory.
Now we have a generation of amoral techbros who are more than happy to piss all of that away just to make number go up. They're intentionally releasing dry rot all through the support beams underpinning the modern economy, and it will take years -- decades -- to find and replace all the damaged structures.
If it's even possible, or worth doing.
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