Grossss. Are they suggesting that because most Americans (...why are we only talking about Americans??) are not vegetarian, it means we value our own consciousness over other forms, so if AI had consciousness, we should feel no shame enslaving it? Yikesssss I don't even know where to begin 🤮

Thanks for sharing! This article is amazing and terrifying

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QA by inspection is a mugs game, anyone who has been in operations will tell you this. It loses efficacy after about 30 minutes, your brain will "fill in" what it is expecting to see and miss the error.

Reviewing AI gen code is not only a lot of work, but it's mentally draining and it'd be extremely easy to gloss over things. I'm not sure many devs will have both the understanding of what large amounts of generated code is doing AND the copy editor-like skills and focus to get through it all.

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The way AI generates code means it's a monumental task to review and sometimes just to make sense of it, and of course if the code is working, you'll be asked why you're taking so long to just get it out the door.

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The marketing and grandiose claims that AI companies are making causes it to feel like anyone with a realistic view will be the one who we look back on as saying the iPhone won't be useful or the internet will never go anywhere. We need to have honest conversations like this. Kudos to @zed.dev

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For some reason, a lot of pockets of the tech world right now make it feel like it's unthinkable to 'speak up' against infallible AI tooling. That's not healthy.

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2. Why do I feel like it's incredibly brave for @zed.dev to post this? Companies SHOULD be willing to talk about their products strengths and areas for improvement.

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- and let's be honest, AI demos are often only the first 10%. Watching it output a ton of code is impressive at first, but rarely continues on that way. That's only addressing the over-hype due to innocent awe, but often the hype is from purposeful marketing and manipulation

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I'm watching the talk with Alberto now, and I'm really glad he's saying something I was already thinking. The last 10% of a project often takes 90% of the time. I think because of this, people get over-hyped on seeing any tool help you with that first 90%

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