I wonder if the button colours immediately made US readers pick a side e.g. republican Vs democrat. If the buttons had been Yellow and Purple would it make a difference?
There is just something so inherently smug and annoying about Mollick. He is one of those low information boosters whose posts sound intellectual until you really think about them.
Tell me more about how the pile of cursed spaghetti that is Claude code is now viable due to model breakthroughs. All I see are hype men saying "the new model is a team of PhDs in your pocket" and then releasing disappointing updates or saying "the new model is too dangerous" because they have some vaporware powered by human crowdsourcing.
Also coding is not like other areas - you can test for hallucinations by compiling and printing and running tests.
I guess my first mistake this morning was opening linkedin
Claude Mythos... I'm already sick of hearing about it. The self-imposed critihype is insane.
A friend just pointed out that Anthropic are making all this big noise about having an AI that is "too good" at finding bugs and security problems 1 week after the source code for one of their flagship products was leaked to the public and was found to be riddled with security holes... Why would they not use it themselves?
Same as the ~~vague markdown files~~ skills that are supposedly going to make all SaaS redundant and finally kill off all the COBOL running on mainframes that checks notes IBM have spent hundreds of thousands of man hours trying to kill over the last 3-4 decades
Honestly fuck this shit. Bunch of absolute clowns 🤡 🤡 🤡
GitHub have finally achieved zero 9s stability for the last 90 days. Congratulations to all involved
5 Tools You Can Vibe Code For Your Business In Under An Hour exactly the sort of slop from someone with a hard-on for AI, no understanding of the risks of vibe coding core parts of your business' infrastructure and guest writes for Forbes would produce.
Starts with a sickening intro that leans into "pilled" to be "down with the kids"
If you haven't joined the Claudepilled crowd, open an account and play.
Bright ideas include "copy and paste the source code from your home page into Claude" but overlooks the how to actually get those changes deployed part.
Wanna see my cool website. It's at http://localhost:1234/ take that web developers!
Then she describes building a custom internal dashboard...
Open Claude Code and describe your business. List every software tool you use. Ask it to suggest the key metrics you'd want to see from each one. Go back and forth until the list feels right. Then give it your brand guidelines and ask it to build a dashboard that displays everything. Ask for it to be password protected.
Yes that sounds like a great idea and not a car crash waiting to happen
She also describes building a customer facing onboarding site
Build a custom client-facing dashboard instead. Tell Claude Code what your onboarding process looks like step by step. Describe what information you need to collect and what your clients need to access. Ask it to build a secure portal they can log into, with automations that send them what they need and follow up to collect what you need. This is a branded, professional experience that scales without you. The emotional design matters here too: you want clients to feel held, not herded. Tell Claude that.
Yes vibe coded customer facing tools are a fantastic idea and definitely not a vector for cyber attacks nuh-uh. I'm sure it will be fine if you ask for it to be "secure" right?
FML are we in the twilight zone here?
They're not vibe-coding mission-critical AWS modules.
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Silicon Valley is buzzing about this new idea: AI compute as compensation
These people are genuinely unhinged.
As the recent harpers article says:
"...people who should be in The Hague are giving [startups] twenty million dollars. Something bad is gonna happen here, something really fucking bad is gonna happen...”
Think of all those poor billionaires who won't be able to afford that 29th yacht if we made them pay their fair share instead of externalising their costs onto an already stretched general.public!
Turns out Google Gemini will let you use any old Google API key from things like maps and firebase to access it. So, baddies can do key scanning in public repos and then charge LLM usage to anyone who has committed an API key to their repo!
So many layers of stupidity going on here!
https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/google-api-keys-werent-secrets-but-then-gemini-changed-the-rules
IBM stocks take a tumble after anthropic release a COBOL skill - the rational market strikes again.
I wrote up my take here but TL;DR - a few markdown files telling Claude it's an expert at COBOL development aren't going to unpick decades of risk averse behaviour from bank and government cios. Similar to the SaaSpocalypse this is pure nonsense. Investors don't tend to let reality dissuade them though.
AI bros are seizing the means of computation: RAM, GPUs, SSDs and now HDDs...
I don't think there's an actual conspiracy, just lots of MBAs following their noses towards the $$$.
That said, time to buy a new lipo battery for that 10 year old laptop in the loft and stick Linux on it - before the lithium miners announce they've sold the next 12 months global supply of Lithium to Altman because he needs it to sleep at night...
Giving Claude or copilot attribution plays into the narrative that LLMs are more than just random word generators and that they can be ascribed authorship... I think it's a deliberate strategy so that when there's inevitably a massive copyright case MisAnthropic etc al can say "but looks at all the code co-written by Claude on GitHub" to try and convince the judge.
Just imagine building a house and saying "well I didn't do it on my own, my concrete mixer, toolbelt and coffee machine all helped!"