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Another WSJ story is "Everyone’s Talking About AI Agents. Barely Anyone Knows What They Are. ‘Agentic’ is the biggest buzzword in Silicon Valley, but tech companies and enterprises lack a common understanding of its meaning, and it’s causing problems" https://www.wsj.com/articles/everyones-talking-about-ai-agen...

archived at https://archive.is/mRZZI

'The word “vibe” has become so ubiquitous that it’s started to lose its meaning. A buzzy new phrase, vibe coding, has gripped the tech industry just a month after it was coined by Andrej Karpathy, a co-founder of OpenAI and venerated programmer who posted on X that it was “where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists." In other words, let AI do all the coding for you. Since then, the phrase has popped up everywhere in tech circles — on social media, forums like Hacker News, executive posts on LinkedIn and in Slack channels populated by startup founders in the Y Combinator accelerator in California. “The term is blowing up,” says Chaz Englander, founder of Model ML, which went through the program last year.

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It was once rare to see startups with fewer than 20 people bringing in tens of millions of dollars in annual revenue, but now it’s becoming the norm, says Englander. Little wonder that AI coding startups like Stockholm, Sweden-based Lovable have become the hot new thing among venture capital funds. But let’s not get carried away. Businesses tempted to emulate Salesforce should remember that enterprise-grade code still requires plenty of humans. Vibe coding isn’t the answer to your budgetary problems. For one thing, today’s newest startups are leaner not just because they’re using AI in code creation, but also in sales and customer service. “When our sales team arrives in the morning, there are already between 30 and 50 emails in the outbox,” all generated by AI and awaiting human review, Englander says. And while vibe coding is fine for making prototypes and simple pieces of software, you absolutely can’t build enterprise-grade software just using AI. Anything that requires complex functionality on the back end, or that touches something payment-related, needs the review of experienced programmers in order to work.

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Discussed by economist John Cochrane at https://www.grumpy-economist.com/p/aid.

The U.S. should be on Ukraine's side for moral reasons and could also benefit from the military technology they are developing.

You can't exclude from an election a party that has 1/3 support of the electorate and expect the result to be respected.

`With America’s drone technology a disappointment on the battlefield, defense startups have joined forces with Ukrainian manufacturers to build better, war-proven aircraft for the U.S. military. U.S. startups have spent billions of venture-capital dollars in hopes of developing the small drones that the Pentagon says it needs for future conflicts, but many have produced only expensive aircraft that don’t fly very well. Ukrainian drone makers, meanwhile, have mastered mass-producing drones despite limited resources and are looking for new customers and capital. Now, the two sides are coming together, and the unlikely pairing is getting attention from the Defense Department. Southern California startup CX2 last year struck a deal to put its software and sensors on Ukrainian drones, a matchup that has received approval from a branch of the U.S. military and might soon arm American forces. “No U.S. company is keeping up with Ukraine,” said CX2 co-founder Nathan Mintz. “You know their stuff works. They’ve got the ultimate high-stakes laboratory meant to battle-proof all this stuff.”`

"U.S. Suspends Intelligence Sharing With Ukraine. Pause is expected to cripple Kyiv’s ability to target Russian forces".

By underspending on defense for decades, Europeans have increased their dependence on a man like Trump.