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I fully believe this guy has no idea how horrific the things he's boasting about actually are.
As is the usual on LinkedIn
250k lines of Cursor code
Oh no...
......sure?
This kid doesn't know what he's writing or why, he's just coaxing cursor to vomit up commits and apparently that's their only metric for success.
I work with AI tools and with people who are absolute top tier Cursor users and their shit is always broken. They iterate fast but they absolutely do not fully understand what they're producing. It's great for rolling out flashy UI quickly (apparently the only thing investors care about), then you watch it all go to shit the second you push because every update breaks everything in horrifying ways. It's like watching the early days of enterprise C++/Java where everything was spaghetti, but 100x worse.
I don't think this paradigm of AI is likely to rival a decent human developer, there needs to be a fundamental change in how the models work and how we use them. What were doing now is hoping quantity is somehow going to replace quality.
It's astounding how many lowlifes are using commit counts to measure impact. It's just throwing bisectability out the window and promoting stupid tactics for quick returns.
"This younger person is better than you and will take your job" oh boy like that's something new that ceos have never said before.
This is an attempt to manipulate workers into accepting lower wages for longer hours. That's what "AI" is to them.
The more CEOs believe this, the more I will be able to demand in salary about 5 years from now.
I hope all the CEOs like this guy go hard all in on AI and prove to the world that it’s a sound business decision.
And if they’re wrong, may they never complain about the hourly rates of contractors they have to call in to dig them out of the hole their AI dug for them.
guess how much people are gonna charge them for debugging 250K lines of AI code or better yet probably writing everything from scratch
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I kind of feel bad for the kid and hope he's actually learning something as he goes on.
If not he'll be a "AI-native" McDonalds employee after the bubble bursts.
"You're right, there is supposed to cheese on a cheeseburger. Please excuse my mistake“
And they'll wonder in 6 months why the application runs like shit, randomly crashes, doesn't load, etc. Bunch of untrackable issues in the making. Gg, good luck
Reality: he got a coworker's kid to sit there for a photoshoot, for this post. That photo looks staged as fuck.
Photo being staged is not a good enough way to prove that the subject is not what he is claimed to be.
The guy might be hunched forward while actually working and might not be using as many devices, but still might be vibe coding.
I remember having a staged photoshoot where I was asked to sit with another person next to me on my work computer, acting like I we were discussing something on screen. I ran some fancy stuff on screen for effect.
While actually working, I used to mostly talk directly while we both were sitting on our own systems, but that doesn't change the fact that I worked there and had made said fancy stuff before.
boasting about child labour...Sir are you by any chance from Florida?
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I really like it when company representatives openly boast their use of AI.
Makes it easy for me to put in a list of "Do not buy from" companies.
He's explicitly selling AI based solutions, so luckily everyone sensible skips over that right away.
I can't imagine integrating AI to my codebases to a meaningful degree. I've worked mostly with health or financial syatems. Accuracy is of utmost importance. Imagine your paycheck is half what it should be because of AI.
Imagine your paycheck is half what it should be because of AI.
If that were to happen it won't be due to AI, it would be them using AI as a scapegoat.
Because they would definitely make sure to add a check to make sure I didn't get more than that.
Even if they replace you with AI, they will make sure to call you back and pay you 10x your time for that 1 thing.
The company doing the payroll software isn't the company paying you though
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2 laptops to open 2 tabs?
Something something modern software resource utilization.
This has to be rage bait.
He posted an update:
At this point, I'm half convinced he's a masterful troll.
He's from Norway, so being a troll feels on brand.
"Hey kid, hold still while we throw some fake money on you and take a photo. It's for marketing."
Sorry but what even is a 'technical 1v1'?
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need a put option stock market tutorial please
You just predict the exact date the company will fail, and buy the puts expiring the following month.
I built a website that uses ChatGPT API for no particular reason whatsoever. Can I slap AI-native on my resume?
You can slap anything on your resume if you can explain it in the interview.
250000 lines accepted.
While attempting to fix 3 individual issues.
Just imagine the slop.
I'm imagining functions that only exist to fix the incorrect output of other functions, God knows how deep.
Why the fuck does he have 2 Laptops and 2 additional monitors? It would annoy the hell out of me having to reach out to change something on one of the laptops.
You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like
I hate the future.
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