Glyph @glyph@mastodon.social
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1. YES THEY ARE.

They are vibe-coding mission-critical AWS modules. They are generating tech debt at scale. They don't THINK that that's what they're doing. Do you think most programmers conceive of their daily (non-LLM) activities as "putting in lots of bugs"? No, that is never what we say we're doing. Yet, we turn around, and there all the bugs are.

With LLMs, we can look at the mission-critical AWS modules and ask after the fact, were they vibe-coded? AWS says yes arstechnica.com/civis/threads/

After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes

AWS has suffered at least two incidents linked to the use of AI coding assistants. See full article...

arstechnica.com · Ars OpenForum

Glyph @glyph@mastodon.social
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2. If it is "nuts" to dismiss this experience, then it would be "nuts" to dismiss mine: I have seen many, many high profile people in tech, who I have respect for, take *absolutely unhinged* risks with LLM technology that they have never, in decades-long careers, taken with any other tool or technology. It reads like a kind of cognitive decline. It's scary. And many of these people are *leaders* who use their influence to steamroll objections to these tools because they're "obviously" so good

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Paul Rietschka @prietschka@mastodon.social
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RE: mastodon.social/@glyph/1162203

Glyph makes a good point here -- though I'll say the objections to Doctorow's essay have an intensity that's unwarranted -- but this is 100% spot on.

The number of people promoting LLMs who are in positions of authority, loosely defined, is, truly, insane. The delusional nonsense these people have been spouting for years at this point, which I've heard them spout in board rooms and been gobsmacked by, is...well, insane.

Major, major issue here. These people should know better.

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