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Alright, here we are. The decline is accelerating.
An IT manager at a client company, someone capable I've been collaborating with for years, recently hired three new developers. However, he asked me for a Linux server instead of the usual FreeBSD because "that way the devs can move faster, AIs can't produce valid results for BSD systems".Given our relationship, I called him and told him I disagreed. Somewhat bitterly, he replied that these guys had been "imposed on him". They're polite and willing, but completely lacking any real programming principles. They are "experts in vibe coding", and for management that's more than enough.
In other words, we're not supposed to build a working and efficient server anymore, but a vibe-coding-friendly one.
My instinctive reaction was to ask him whether, when a data breach eventually happens, because sooner or later it will if the people writing the code neither write nor read code, they'll be able to tell the authorities that the data controller was an AI.
He didn't say anything else and thanked me. Maybe, and I stress maybe, management will understand that.
@stefano Vibe coding. Great. Exactly more of what the world needs.
They don't know what they don't know and that is by several orders of magnitude more than what they do know.
Ugh.
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@stefano "experts in vibe coding"? Wow, is that really a thing? OK, I'll be honest, I let "AI" to create a short script today because:
A. is not critical
B. I was only interested in the result of it, not wanted to learn how to do it myselfBut anything related to any kind of work still created in cooperation of the hallucinating machine? Wow, that's brave.
@peterkotrcka @stefano they've been using the term prompt engineers. They think that their prompts is more likely to produce something good because they use common terminology and add make no mistake at the end. It's a cult.
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I guess the experts in vibe coding costs lesser than a senior developers...
@freezr @stefano @peterkotrcka it ends up costing more because you pay for the tokens and you still need a full-time senior developer to verify the output. Amazon is actually having this exact problem with their new AI policy.
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@stefano coming from a different approach, many of the llm models know bsd internals and approaches just fine. i launched an agent (we fully control the gpu cluster at the dc) at a jail cluster staging candidate and it found the vnet misconfiguration in less than 30s.
i'm also seeing more and more companies say "we'll use ai" but the funny part is the clients i'm starting to lose to ai/llm come back with problems they can't solve since they don't have technical staff. as a result i reset my rate schedule with them at a higher cost. two have still asked about llm use, so i've shifted to building them private local-only (no calls) ai clusters for automating a lot of their tasks (think lead-gen, marketing analysis, financial tedious tasks)
i think it can be used in a constructive way, but companies see "ai/llm" as this magic wand they can wave which most shoot themselves in the foot.
i realize it's not a pivot for everyone, stefano but so far it's worked for me.
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Alright, here we are. The decline is accelerating.
An IT manager at a client company, someone capable I've been collaborating with for years, recently hired three new developers. However, he asked me for a Linux server instead of the usual FreeBSD because "that way the devs can move faster, AIs can't produce valid results for BSD systems".Given our relationship, I called him and told him I disagreed. Somewhat bitterly, he replied that these guys had been "imposed on him". They're polite and willing, but completely lacking any real programming principles. They are "experts in vibe coding", and for management that's more than enough.
In other words, we're not supposed to build a working and efficient server anymore, but a vibe-coding-friendly one.
My instinctive reaction was to ask him whether, when a data breach eventually happens, because sooner or later it will if the people writing the code neither write nor read code, they'll be able to tell the authorities that the data controller was an AI.
He didn't say anything else and thanked me. Maybe, and I stress maybe, management will understand that.
@stefano "They are "experts in vibe coding", and for management that's more than enough."
That's rich
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Alright, here we are. The decline is accelerating.
An IT manager at a client company, someone capable I've been collaborating with for years, recently hired three new developers. However, he asked me for a Linux server instead of the usual FreeBSD because "that way the devs can move faster, AIs can't produce valid results for BSD systems".Given our relationship, I called him and told him I disagreed. Somewhat bitterly, he replied that these guys had been "imposed on him". They're polite and willing, but completely lacking any real programming principles. They are "experts in vibe coding", and for management that's more than enough.
In other words, we're not supposed to build a working and efficient server anymore, but a vibe-coding-friendly one.
My instinctive reaction was to ask him whether, when a data breach eventually happens, because sooner or later it will if the people writing the code neither write nor read code, they'll be able to tell the authorities that the data controller was an AI.
He didn't say anything else and thanked me. Maybe, and I stress maybe, management will understand that.
I guess that we are in the middle of a battle between dreams and reality.
CEOs dreams about 1 intern doing the job of 10 seniors. AI CEOs dreams everything done with AI. NVIDIA CEO dreams to make cash for ever.
However there is this startups (Taalas) that stated it can print a model a full model into a chip and make AI totally inexpensive, and this can a be a total game changer.
Because the risk here is to deliver the whole job market in the hands of handful of IT corps with bad reputation and arguable integrity.
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Alright, here we are. The decline is accelerating.
An IT manager at a client company, someone capable I've been collaborating with for years, recently hired three new developers. However, he asked me for a Linux server instead of the usual FreeBSD because "that way the devs can move faster, AIs can't produce valid results for BSD systems".Given our relationship, I called him and told him I disagreed. Somewhat bitterly, he replied that these guys had been "imposed on him". They're polite and willing, but completely lacking any real programming principles. They are "experts in vibe coding", and for management that's more than enough.
In other words, we're not supposed to build a working and efficient server anymore, but a vibe-coding-friendly one.
My instinctive reaction was to ask him whether, when a data breach eventually happens, because sooner or later it will if the people writing the code neither write nor read code, they'll be able to tell the authorities that the data controller was an AI.
He didn't say anything else and thanked me. Maybe, and I stress maybe, management will understand that.
@stefano I would ask them what features they need.
this reminds me of one support call I had when I was working for Rackspace in 2013. The customer wanted Ubuntu instead of RHEL because "the dev told me Ubuntu has newer software and RHEL is too old for new stuff".... too bad all software versions were equal thanks to our backport repos... And RHEL had better support anyway (at least at the time, nowadays they are almost on par).
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Alright, here we are. The decline is accelerating.
An IT manager at a client company, someone capable I've been collaborating with for years, recently hired three new developers. However, he asked me for a Linux server instead of the usual FreeBSD because "that way the devs can move faster, AIs can't produce valid results for BSD systems".Given our relationship, I called him and told him I disagreed. Somewhat bitterly, he replied that these guys had been "imposed on him". They're polite and willing, but completely lacking any real programming principles. They are "experts in vibe coding", and for management that's more than enough.
In other words, we're not supposed to build a working and efficient server anymore, but a vibe-coding-friendly one.
My instinctive reaction was to ask him whether, when a data breach eventually happens, because sooner or later it will if the people writing the code neither write nor read code, they'll be able to tell the authorities that the data controller was an AI.
He didn't say anything else and thanked me. Maybe, and I stress maybe, management will understand that.
@stefano give me a few days more, I have the doc being build to run AI Python/torch shit in Jails 😬
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@stefano sorry to be that guy, but my cash is on the IT manager taking the fall when the vibers causes a breach.
your username is adequate warning surely
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Alright, here we are. The decline is accelerating.
An IT manager at a client company, someone capable I've been collaborating with for years, recently hired three new developers. However, he asked me for a Linux server instead of the usual FreeBSD because "that way the devs can move faster, AIs can't produce valid results for BSD systems".Given our relationship, I called him and told him I disagreed. Somewhat bitterly, he replied that these guys had been "imposed on him". They're polite and willing, but completely lacking any real programming principles. They are "experts in vibe coding", and for management that's more than enough.
In other words, we're not supposed to build a working and efficient server anymore, but a vibe-coding-friendly one.
My instinctive reaction was to ask him whether, when a data breach eventually happens, because sooner or later it will if the people writing the code neither write nor read code, they'll be able to tell the authorities that the data controller was an AI.
He didn't say anything else and thanked me. Maybe, and I stress maybe, management will understand that.
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