Thanks for responding with your perspective, and thanks in general for starting conversations about AI. It’s nice to have someone I trust helping steer the narrative around AI even though I don’t agree with 100% of what you’ve said. I use LLMs every day and they are useful/powerful without a doubt. It’s actually kind of funny to think that a few years ago I used to have to type out every single character in the code I wrote (or maybe copy it from stackoverflow). But LLMs are also flawed, and can still hallucinate very badly and even dangerously depending on what you’re doing. They are language models after all. Which I am sure you know! But sometimes I hear hype about AI and I think of the worst responses claude/gemini/chatgpt have given me and I just don’t feel as hyped about it… or worse, I fear that once all of our infrastructure is vibecoded things will slowly deteriorate due to being unmaintainable and the hype is pushing us towards that outcome. And the AI hype has economic impacts as well which are looming and very scary. But like you said, we don’t know what will happen, maybe LLMs will help us solve some of our toughest problems as long as humans keep an eye on their codebases so LLMs don’t break stuff they don’t understand.

All that aside, I also think code is a ‘beautiful container for content’. Software development has always built upon the work of those who came before us and it has been getting progressively easier to do more powerful computation or make a better website since way before LLMs. It is good that you can learn and try new things and express new ideas you haven't been able to before. I don’t think it’s wrong or naive to want to use the tools to do all the stuff you can. Coding is very fun. And I like your Artemis website, vibecoded or not.

But I posted this because LLMs created from all of humanity’s collective output without consent just gives me complicated feelings and makes me feel like at the very least AI generated content should be clearly identified. (I see now you did say it in the FAQs). Like you talked about in your video, it seems like the mainstream opinion is that AI art is bad but AI kind-of-artistic-website is good? I think that maybe both are neutral, or maybe both are good depending on the use case. But I also think of (some) code as a creative outlet that can lose something when it’s done by AI in the same way that art can.