Vibe coding broke people's brains because they had a bad understanding of the software design process.
The pop culture model goes something like this: start out with a sketch and then render that same idea in progressively finer detail.
So when tools could "skip" to high detail, people went WOW.
Couple things here:
1. What the fuck
2. I am allllllmost more offended by the suggestion that I would give this shitbox edit than having my identity stolen
3. The CEO is scheduled to be on Decoder soon and we will see if they back out!
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there are a large number of ways in which the republican party is learning, apparently for the first time, that your adversary gets a vote
Conversations w Jack Dorsey are always illuminating. Here he argues how massive Block layoffs signal how companies must drastically transform in the AI age. He also comments on Twitter, Bluesky, politics and journalism. And WIRED! .https://www.wired.com/story/jack-dorsey-explains-block-layoffs/
Me, writing: Haha, fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
Me, editing: Well, this fucking sucks.
My entire journalistic career, editors & owners & bosses told me again & again that my stuff was too long, too in-depth, too wonky, no one would read it.
Again & again, readers flocked to the longer, wonkier pieces, passed them around, wrote me to thank me for them, cited them years later.
there's a thing I like to call "load-bearing assumptions", that you don't notice until they're suddenly gone (e.g the air you breath has oxygen in it).
the post-ww2 order is a load-bearing assumption for basically the entirety of american life. trump took a sledgehammer to it in the last 90 days.
First they came for the trans people, and I said nothing because I wasn’t trans. Then they were like actually I’m pretty sure you are trans and I said no I’m not and they went okay well show us your penis then and I said what no get out of my face and they said that one’s a girl get her
Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs
Cannot tell you how depressing it is to read that people are simply refusing to read nonfiction after you’ve worked really hard to write a nonfiction book you believe in, in case anyone is wondering why I’m posting so much about my book which comes out in a few weeks #BookSky
Today I Will Look The Burrito Man In The Eye and other stories of manifesting success
There’s so much I agree with in this piece by @davekarpf.bsky.social and I love this: The best thing a researcher can do right now is focus on “What questions do I actually want to answer?” Then do the work of ANSWERING IT.“ and, if AI is a better social scientist than you,
yikes 😬
This blog post by @davekarpf.bsky.social is really worth reading and reflecting upon.
A Reductress post features a photo of Kristi Noem with the headline, “Kristi Noem Put Down for Being Too Hard to Train”
Screaming
There has never been, and will never be, a more embarrassing GWU professor than Jonathan Turley.
Glad people are settling on the term "pervert glasses". Bonus points if you also say it while posting a picture of Mark Zuckerberg or call them Mark Zuckerberg's pervert glasses.
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CITR board about to pass a unanimous motion stating "Dave is feral, y'all. Seriously."
Fantastic work from @davekarpf.bsky.social putting some perspective on the notion that AI can do social science research. It can generate passable journal articles, which is not necessarily the same thing. It's a chance to consider what we should be valuing. davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/can-ai-rep...
How dare you suggest that I am not also basically feral? This is an outrage and a betrayal.
This is the one. It's fire.
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"an awful lot of interesting data is simply never captured, and therefore can never be analyzed. Agentic AI offers a real opportunity to build, maintain, and update datasets that otherwise would fall into disrepair." --> been on my mind the last few weeks, glad to see Dave point it out
great stuff by @davekarpf.bsky.social
"Journal articles aren’t social science. They’re just a unit of measurement. They’re how we keep score. Producing journal articles isn’t what we are actually meant to be doing — we’re supposed to be learning meaningful things about people, power, and society."
I know, right? The linear passage of time is COMPLETELY unacceptable.
If their journalism is so incredible, then why are the tech billionaires unhappy with them? 🫠
If AI can replace your research, maybe it wasn’t so valuable in the first place? For my team’s mixed-method research on big social data, only ~10% of our insights ever make it into an actual paper. But those insights shape everything we know and share about the communities and dynamics we study.
New post: Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? (No. No it can't. Come on, now.)
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