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Now the AI rainmakers are infighting about the best public relations for their hot air products.

It is encouraging though that Ng admits that dealing with AI "coding" is like wading through a swamp and leaves you exhausted.

Regarding "vibe coding": I'm waiting for the first National Security Letter that demands that a secret backdoor is inserted in the generated code. No one will notice, because we "can forget about the code".






Andrew Ng is an expert in ML. I'm not sure why you generalise this as he represents everyone on the whole planet.

And you continue doing so with every other point you are making.

Just because some random people think they can vibecode real products, doesn't mean that this didn't happen before just slower.

A company i worked for, had their MySql server unprotected on the internet for no reason at all. They still used MD5 too.

Another company saved credit card information in their DB with a simple generic key in code accessable by everyone.


> A company i worked for, had their MySql server unprotected on the internet for no reason at all. They still used MD5 too. Another company saved credit card information in their DB with a simple generic key in code accessable by everyone.

So your argument is that since we had incompetence before, let's have more of it?


I'm saying that this was already a issue before, its not a new issue and we have to deal with this the same way as we did before: Security experts, audits etc.

I can imagine also a government agency asking OpenAI to have ChatGPT very subtly align people to the official discourse, whatever it would be. With its access to previous conversations and memories, it's a child's game to slowly nudge people's opinions in the "right" direction. Because something that LLMs excel at is being convincing.



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