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> This is the first time ever a technological advance is so cordially disliked

I think the early automobile had a huge share of haters as well?

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I can understand both the automobile and electricity because those were legit dangerous and worthy of some caution.

Still are (cars at least, kill twice as many people annually as malaria).

How many people do you think there currently are in safety-critical industries who are just vibe coding everything and not reviewing the code, or giving it to agents to review with instructions to just route around whatever quality gates there are? I bet it's a lot more than zero.

A lot less than you probably think.

My line of work: I deal with enterprise SaaS companies and I can see first hand that engineers are very slow moving with AI, very cautious, and still believe they need to review small PRs.

I guess we'll just have to see. Personally my bet is on the first incident to cause more than 100 fatalities which can be solidly traced back to vibe coding to happen in the next 12-18 months (possibly it already has, depending on whether you count the school bombing in Iran).

I don't think it's fair at all to blame AI for that; a human made the final call to drop those bombs.

And then there's Microsoft

> ... because those were legit dangerous and worthy of some caution.

As is the case with many humans when equipped with "AI".

Electricity too

The modern automobile has a lot of haters too

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