The proof is in the pudding. Having a thousand automated AI robots to maintain your code may be no more useful than a thousand chimps and typewriters to help you write Shakespeare.
My experience "vibe coding" doesn't give me much hope either. ChatGPT and Claude will happily suggest 500-line disaster commits that break more things than they fix, no matter how smart they get. We should all know by now that we can't trust ChatGPT to review code, even if it's got a penchant for the occasional college try.
> in Factorio terms - we need quality modules.
In Mario terms, we need a Super Mushroom. I think this is a weak cop-out for the many failings of AI, and the more important question of how we actually make AI good at all this. There are currently dozens of AI inference products you can buy for development, and none of them are your silver bullet. You can optimize agents all the way down your conveyor belts, but none of it will replace the discretionary management of a human.
We ought to be careful advocating for these things with certainty. I worry that the many promises of AI will become the 21st century "flying car" in the same way that early 1950s experiences with commercial flight created unrealistic expectations of scale and problem-solving.
The proof is in the pudding. Having a thousand automated AI robots to maintain your code may be no more useful than a thousand chimps and typewriters to help you write Shakespeare.
My experience "vibe coding" doesn't give me much hope either. ChatGPT and Claude will happily suggest 500-line disaster commits that break more things than they fix, no matter how smart they get. We should all know by now that we can't trust ChatGPT to review code, even if it's got a penchant for the occasional college try.
> in Factorio terms - we need quality modules.
In Mario terms, we need a Super Mushroom. I think this is a weak cop-out for the many failings of AI, and the more important question of how we actually make AI good at all this. There are currently dozens of AI inference products you can buy for development, and none of them are your silver bullet. You can optimize agents all the way down your conveyor belts, but none of it will replace the discretionary management of a human.
We ought to be careful advocating for these things with certainty. I worry that the many promises of AI will become the 21st century "flying car" in the same way that early 1950s experiences with commercial flight created unrealistic expectations of scale and problem-solving.