03 May 2025
Looking back at this week’s video, it’s the AI discussion that I think about most. More specifically, the view amongst some that any usage of it is bad and every output is “slop”. I’m hearing that much more broadly lately, that AI is both “robbing” creators and producing sub-par results. The latter is certainly true in many cases (although it’s improving extraordinarily quickly), but the former is just ridiculous when used as a reason not to use AI. After doing this week’s video, I saw press of Satya saying that 30% of code in some Microsoft repositories is written by AI; so, are developers in the same boat? Should we go back to writing more code by hand to keep us more employed? Maybe chuck out all the other efficiency tools we use too – IDEs give way to notepad.exe, and so on. It’s kinda nuts.
References
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- NDC Melbourne has been run and done (that’s actually the last even on my calendar at present, at last until things start filling in for Europe next month)
- We’re progressing well with our new Have I Been Pwned challenge coin (but some of the comments about using AI in the process… 😲)
- There is a view amongst some that AI just shouldn’t be used for things a human could be paid for (I’m sure a similar discussion was had over and over again during the industrial revolution and, well, every other time tech solved a laborious problem)
- This Facebook phish was way too convincing (largely due to the shock and emotion it created on first read)
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