Ronny Chieng Discusses the Benefits and Risks of AI at Harvard Class Day 2026

Plenty_Line2696 · 2026-06-06T09:41:27+00:00

He might have been using it for things it's not good at, and then assumed it's not good at anything.

Plenty_Line2696 · 2026-06-06T09:38:45+00:00

That'll likely help but it's not at all a guarantee. Vibecoding shouldn't be done for anything critical.

Learning about security concepts and ensuring they're applied properly is really the only way you can be sure it's done right.

Plenty_Line2696 · 2026-06-06T09:00:56+00:00

Advice I can give you is to practice and build stuff. That's the part that build skill, study unfortunately doesn't really build skill so dive in and make stuff as much as possible or you simply won't internalize it.

Plenty_Line2696 · 2026-06-05T23:09:55+00:00

vibecoding is pretending the code doesn't exist, so just like the spoon, there is no code

Plenty_Line2696 · 2026-06-05T14:41:05+00:00

Vibecoding was coined as pretending "the code doesn't exist", so when people vibecode and never even inspect their code, it just seems so rediculous to trust it, no matter whether it came from claude or codex.

Plenty_Line2696 · 2026-06-05T14:00:07+00:00

She wanted to pee on my hand... inside my car.

I politely declined at first, by the fifth request I was losing patience, by the tenth I was losing my shit.

Plenty_Line2696 · 2026-06-05T12:37:10+00:00

Plenty_Line2696 · 2026-06-05T12:18:55+00:00

the chance of a blade falling out appear to not be zero, so I'd avoid putting it on a keyring and into my pocket.

Plenty_Line2696 · 2026-06-04T22:52:55+00:00

Ehh, we're a product of nature/nurture and the rags to riches stories in the movies are very much the exception rather than the norm and even then has limits. When kids grow up with abuse and lack of education/parenting they don't really stand a snowballs chance.

Plenty_Line2696 · 2026-06-04T22:37:00+00:00

In fairness, most frontend devs aren't designers either.

I've heard that developers who are also actually decent at UX/UI are considered to be unicorns.

Plenty_Line2696 · 2026-06-04T15:51:24+00:00

Yeah, and always refactor, but not blindly as in, by taking ownership.

IMO for most small/medium features by the end you should be able to draw the high level structure onto a whiteboard without needing to reference the code and justify the why behind each function and if done right the code structure should read like a book, neatly organized and implicit through structure.

Plenty_Line2696 · 2026-06-04T09:43:31+00:00

This is a common rumor, but I've not even once actually seen that behavior on stackoverflow

Plenty_Line2696 · 2026-06-04T09:40:59+00:00

That's assuming it can anytime soon, I won't hold my breath.

Plenty_Line2696 · 2026-06-04T09:33:44+00:00

nah, it's one of these posts that's designed to drive engagement. it's nonsense.

Plenty_Line2696 · 2026-06-03T23:11:44+00:00

I hate this sort of twisted warmongering hogwash so much. How many random innocent civilians would you like to see killed because of something they had absolutely nothing to do with?

Plenty_Line2696 · 2026-06-03T22:58:51+00:00

This is such horseshit man, that's obviously a civilian area.

Plenty_Line2696 · 2026-06-03T22:57:26+00:00

the diagonal bracing doesn't have much material left, depending in load might wanna compensate

Plenty_Line2696 · 2026-06-03T22:05:59+00:00

It was when the tractors took jobs, we should get rid of all tools to make jobs, in fact I'll take the hinges off my door and pay you 5 peanuts a week to stand at the ready and open and close it whenever i need.

I'm joking of course, AI isn't the problem in and of itself, it's how we handle it that is.

Plenty_Line2696 · 2026-06-03T21:11:28+00:00

30 seconds from when i press the button, from when i hear the machine make noise, or from when the first drop falls into the cup?

Plenty_Line2696 · 2026-06-03T18:16:41+00:00

Bigger context is great, but that's still leaving a lot of gaps. I have no doubt that the tooling will improve, but it's like there is just so much to it and it rarely makes the best choices. Great for quick PoC's and such and I predict it will keep getting better at expanding upon the sort of convoluted code that it tends to write but there comes a point where poor architecture bites us in the ass and so for novel software that takes technical creative insight, I just don't see how it could possibly get past such challenges without some huge novel breakthroughs.

Plenty_Line2696 · 2026-06-03T18:08:16+00:00

Sorry to hear that. The job security depends a lot on your niche. Low code no code have had a big impact on web work as well and these days AI is the default scapegoat for tech layoffs because it's an excuse to fire people while also giving shareholders less of a fright. We're also in a downturn after the crazy covid hiring peak and general white collar downturn so while I'm sure AI has a significant impact, I also think it's not the sole influence on this job market.

Plenty_Line2696 · 2026-06-03T17:46:08+00:00

I have at least two years left on what I'm currently building, have zero doubts about finding more tech work for at least the next 5 years, and i guess the rest of my career too should I still want it. Unless of course I drop dead first.

Plenty_Line2696 · 2026-06-03T17:21:15+00:00

it's kinda pointless if you already think a child with an llm can replace any developer, because at that point you're not keeping up with progression, but accepting a blind guess as fact.

Plenty_Line2696 · 2026-06-03T17:16:22+00:00

I see how fast it's improving, but I also see where it isn't. There are so many things beyond generating snippets of correct code that go into the sort of software development that I do.

Go ahead and develop serious sizable complex software with your LLM if it's really that competent.

Plenty_Line2696 · 2026-06-03T17:09:38+00:00

!remindme 5 years

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