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> “It’s clear that it is very helpful to have AI helping you write code. It’s not clear how you run an AI-coded code base,” he commented. Armstrong replied, “I agree.”

Can’t say I’m surprised that a crypto CEO - an industry totally overflowing with contradictions - is completely unfazed when confronted with yet another contradiction

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It's not a contradiction. AI is now an important tool to have for software engineers. It's not at the stage where you can just let it do the work without supervising and refining what it outputs.

Hand-waving negative externalities is maybe the biggest part of the job.

I get that everyone wants to dunk on the crypto/AI guy, but their claim boils down into "AI is helpful but it shouldn't do all the work for you" which is a stance almost everyone has.

I don't think the CEO should know whether or not I've used AI though nor do I think it's fair to fire people for it.

I guess I could maybe see a case for catching someone saying "I don't care about trying out new tools" - it's a position held by some of the least productive people I've ever worked with. But there other reasons why someone might not have picked up new tools yet, like "I'm just trying to get my damn work done" or "I tried this tool but it just seemed distracting".

I fall into those camps all the time wrt new tools.

Yes, but in this case, the CEO said, “everybody try this this, it is important to me,” and the ones who dragged their feet on trying it got canned.

From my reading of the article, you don’t have to think AI is useful or great to keep your job there, you just have to try the tool out because the CEO said to.

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