Surprisingly it was the UI that pinged off the detectors for me.
My hat off to the nitpickers and perfectionists
(does not look like that to me)
I have been in tech for 25+ years and love programming but I have been busy running my company the past few years and too busy to write code and I MISSED IT A LOT, when AI-assisted coding came about, it drastically reduced the friction.
Vibe coding + Years of Experience = Vibe Engineering and it is AMAZING.
I feel like Tony Stark every day. I wake up every day and review code from several agents on several projects and sometimes i start a new agent when i am bed because of a thought/idea I had and when i wake up in the morning the feature i wanted is ready for review and can be live live in under 30 minutes. that is incredible.
The only one it has failed in answering is “how do I make my wife happy” lol
AI generation is a tool, and it is the best tool I have ever used in my career. Of course if you don’t know what you are doing, it won’t help you. Just because you have a calculator you don’t become an engineer. Or a paintbrush doesn’t turn you into Picasso.
PS: my wife hates my LinkedIn profile photo too :) she says it looks fake. It’s enhanced for sure.
And just to add some more contest, my site used to be a wordpress blog back 15 years ago and I used to block semi-frequently but couldn't keep up with it. The domain has been parked for 10+ years now and i have been wanting to revive it forever but again, too much time than I had to spare. AI tooling has inspired me again and reduced the time significantly. I can now generate content much faster and review it for coherence and accuracy etc...
Lately i have been recording voice memos in the car and when i get home i take the transcript and ask AI to turn it into a blog post. In the past, it just sat on my phone because the effort to edit and research it and format it and type it was too time consuming.
The point is, there is a real person behind this, effort and thought went into it and now i can share my thought without worrying about formatting and grammer and css and blah blah.
Maybe, just maybe, there will a new era where crappy software (by crappy software I mean almost everything we see around us - open source and closed source) is not the norm anymore - because now a single, smart and knowledgeable enough person can write something like Kubernetes (which is my baseline for OK software) or even Linux in a reasonable amount of time. And maybe we won't be stuck with 40 year old (or more) technologies because "too hard to change". Did you ever try to add bottom padding - literally just bottom padding - to the command prompt in a terminal emulator (in my case, I tried Iterm and Kitty + tmux only)? It's near impossible. That is absurd.
Point is: bad software existed before (most of it), and good software existed before (very little). It will be the same in the future. It's just that now, less people coordinating are needed to right good software.
This is exactly what people want you to worry about. Doing otherwise signifies you’re low trust and don’t care about the reader.
The root of the above is: if you were competent, the points you listed above don’t take long and aren’t a meaningful inhibitor to making content. Like coding, AI is fancy autocomplete at this point. If you weren’t competent, you need to get there, otherwise you’re taking a shortcut on your personal brand which is extremely untrustworthy and looks awful. If you care so little about the reader and so much more about producing content, that is not going to come across well.
I appreciate the feedback though. Thanks.
You are overselling this. Being able to read this site and nod along saying "I know this" says enables you to talk to your data scientist or AI engineer.
However, if you don't already know what the jargon means you aren't going to learn it from the site. The prerequisites don't mention probability, but probability isn't introduced anywhere. The sketch about attention in transformers is missing at least one very crucial ingredient. etc.
The comments section of this it's all a version of ad hominem, essentially (whats latin for tool?): "this is using AI, isn't?"
Right now, I'm not interested in the content, so I won't make any comments about that. That's not my point. But the "lol AI????" tone is getting out of hand. Let's judge people by the quality of their content, not by their choice of tools.
dominatrix•3mo ago