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Isn't this still a thing? "Software Engineer in Test" being the newer term?

I just checked LinkedIn and they have quite a few job listings in this vein. Which makes sense: in the "AI and YOLO" development lifecycle, automated testing is more important than ever.

Does your agent not know how to just build a binary?

Maybe your extension/app is compelling enough that the core team finds a way to recreate it, or make an exception?

Maybe it becomes normal to fork a project and vibe-code the extra thing you want and everybody does that and it's fine?

Doesn't seem like a loss for the project, just a win for you. If I understood the announcement correctly, they're doing this more for logistical reasons than to outright ban all AI-assisted code, so if something turns out to be super awesome then it's not like they have to do a clean-room reimplementation.

Meanwhile, let a thousand forks bloom, why not?

I hear this a lot as a reason to accept that only the robots have read the code: "but it's too much code for one person to understand."

Yes, but it's not ever too much code for a team to understand, or a community. The question is whether you can build a team or community with enough trust and integrity that two things are always true:

1. Alice understands the fluxtron renoberator module she wrote.

2. Bob can also shift his attention there and understand it if necessary, because Alice writes clean code that was reviewed by John and Sally.

You can have Alice, Bob, John and Sally all be robots, and you can decide to trust the robots, but (so far anyway) it's a choice, not an inevitability.

Alas, I think we (collectively) either are, or will be soon. There will be people who keep 100% knowledge of the code in their projects, but I don't think there will be any monetary reward for that, nor reputational outside of their own niche. And I say that from a position of really wanting to be wrong about it.

I recently started using Claude to write an app. I was going to write it by hand but was having trouble getting motivated, and I knew I had to "up my game" in the vibecodery anyway. So far it's been a lot of back and forth, I keep the leash pretty short because I don't want The Claude AI you see everywhere now.

But even with good intentions and the short leash, I find myself saying "yeah, whatever, it looks like it did what I told it to do" and not actually reading all the code. Some yes, all no. And this is for my own project, nobody is my boss here, and it's nothing I couldn't have done by myself.

Now imagine the incentives for someone who's doing it for money, whose boss is pushing them to do more AI and not less, who probably doesn't actually know how to do all the things the AI is doing for them, who looks around and sees who's getting promoted and who's getting laid off...

And remember that most of us, most of the time, no matter how much we might love computers and software, are that person.

But hey, it could be worse! Have you heard about the Literacy Crisis?

How big are the images? Is 160px 1%, 10%…?

How do you think they will verify this?

With AI?

Out of curiosity, why should sports betting via a bookie be legal in the US? Currently it is not.

Yes but that doesn't mean it's not the singularity!

If I get a response from the OpenAI API (or whatever), the fact that the text is embedded in a JSON object that is obviously an AI response, and even tells me which model was used and how many tokens it took, then I already have a machine-readable format clearly identifying the text as AI-generated. Whether the recipient chooses to keep that when they use the text is not my problem, right?

As the API provider, I would be very happy to consider myself compliant based on this. But I have a feeling it wouldn't fly in Brussels.

So if an AI-generated thing is cut in half, and only one half can be identified as being AI-generated while the other half can not, do we think that will be OK?

Leaving aside the fact that this is already the new Ubiquitous Cookie Consent[0], how do you arrive at metadata on text output satisfying this requirement?

[0]: I was just in the EU and got a chuckle out of the "AI disclaimer" coming at the end of every second advertisement, soon to be every advertisement.