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[-] Susaga@sh.itjust.works 72 points 6 days ago

I fully believe this guy has no idea how horrific the things he's boasting about actually are.

[-] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 46 points 6 days ago

As is the usual on LinkedIn

[-] hex@programming.dev 29 points 5 days ago

And they'll wonder in 6 months why the application runs like shit, randomly crashes, doesn't load, etc. Bunch of untrackable issues in the making. Gg, good luck

[-] neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 19 points 5 days ago

He posted an update:

At this point, I'm half convinced he's a masterful troll.

He's from Norway, so being a troll feels on brand.

[-] savvywolf@pawb.social 8 points 5 days ago

"Hey kid, hold still while we throw some fake money on you and take a photo. It's for marketing."

[-] Tamo240@programming.dev 4 points 4 days ago

Sorry but what even is a 'technical 1v1'?

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

https://www.userjourneys.ai/

Does anyone want to actually schedule a call?

[-] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 53 points 6 days ago

250k lines of Cursor code

Oh no...

[-] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 43 points 6 days ago

......sure?

This kid doesn't know what he's writing or why, he's just coaxing cursor to vomit up commits and apparently that's their only metric for success.

I work with AI tools and with people who are absolute top tier Cursor users and their shit is always broken. They iterate fast but they absolutely do not fully understand what they're producing. It's great for rolling out flashy UI quickly (apparently the only thing investors care about), then you watch it all go to shit the second you push because every update breaks everything in horrifying ways. It's like watching the early days of enterprise C++/Java where everything was spaghetti, but 100x worse.

I don't think this paradigm of AI is likely to rival a decent human developer, there needs to be a fundamental change in how the models work and how we use them. What were doing now is hoping quantity is somehow going to replace quality.

[-] Static_Rocket@lemmy.world 22 points 6 days ago

It's astounding how many lowlifes are using commit counts to measure impact. It's just throwing bisectability out the window and promoting stupid tactics for quick returns.

[-] thoughtfuldragon 41 points 6 days ago

"This younger person is better than you and will take your job" oh boy like that's something new that ceos have never said before.

This is an attempt to manipulate workers into accepting lower wages for longer hours. That's what "AI" is to them.

[-] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 19 points 5 days ago

This has to be rage bait.

[-] Dekkia@this.doesnotcut.it 33 points 6 days ago

I kind of feel bad for the kid and hope he's actually learning something as he goes on.

If not he'll be a "AI-native" McDonalds employee after the bubble bursts.

[-] ThunderComplex@lemmy.today 24 points 6 days ago

"You're right, there is supposed to cheese on a cheeseburger. Please excuse my mistake“

[-] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 34 points 6 days ago

The more CEOs believe this, the more I will be able to demand in salary about 5 years from now.

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 26 points 6 days ago

boasting about child labour...Sir are you by any chance from Florida?

[-] javiwhite@feddit.uk 17 points 6 days ago

Sir I do believe the term you are looking for is "student af-uh-leets".

[-] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago

Child labor? He's a senior in high school, it's common to have a job at that age.

[-] CodeMonkey@programming.dev 2 points 3 days ago

Most people turn 18 during the last year of high school, which means that there is a very significant chance that the dev in question is still covered under child labor laws.

Maybe it is because I grew up in the North East United States, but when I was in high school, my classmates only worked seasonal or afternoon jobs.

[-] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

The high school I went to let seniors who had jobs leave at noon. They took the core classes but not electives and were allowed to graduate as long as their boss confirmed that they were working and not just skipping class. It was legal.

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

He is being presented as a person who is being tasked with writing entire code bases and the same job as a senior developer. Even if we give him the benefit of doubt and assume that he is being paid handsomely (which I doubt since we are all very well aware of the mentality of such people whose sole goal is to use AI coders to pay as less as possible, none if possible), the responsibilities involved in this is a full time job, not the part time job most high schoolers do during summer time. Even then it is not "common" for high schoolers to work unless you have never left US. In many places, there are some that do unfortunately do need to work due to economic reasons. But rarely outside of US it is presented as excellent work ethics and patriotism. It is more common for people in mid to late university years to start working as "interns" not full time developers. Also see:

https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/children#%3A%7E%3Atext=The+Convention+on+the+Rights%2Can+earlier+age+of+majority.

"The Convention on the Rights of the Child defines a "child" as a person below the age of 18, unless the relevant laws recognize an earlier age of majority."

So if you are going to boast about a kid who is producing massive code bases, at least say something like "wow he is still not eighteen but look at what this kid is doing", do not try to present that as the new norm. That is just pathetic greedy skill-less, spineless wanna-be intrapreneur behaviour.

[-] squaresinger@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Everyone is talking as if he was a real person.

He's clearly AI generated.

[-] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

I knew more than a few 17 year olds who dropped out of high school to work full time. One was emancipated. A few eventually got their GEDs. It's not an easy life, but it's reality for a lot of people.

If he's capable of handling that level of responsibility I don't see any reason he shouldn't be allowed to. If he's not capable, then the only person being harmed is his employer. Only thing I'm concerned about is whether or not he's being compensated fairly.

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Yes but I think the abnormality here is the guy trying to sell this as the new normal, not even to mention all the associated problems with basing an entire code base on AI (which is a different problem than boasting about getting kids to write your whole code base but related)

[-] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

Yeah, the whole situation is definitely eyebrow raising.

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[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 25 points 6 days ago

Reality: he got a coworker's kid to sit there for a photoshoot, for this post. That photo looks staged as fuck.

[-] i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 29 points 6 days ago

I hope all the CEOs like this guy go hard all in on AI and prove to the world that it’s a sound business decision.

And if they’re wrong, may they never complain about the hourly rates of contractors they have to call in to dig them out of the hole their AI dug for them.

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

guess how much people are gonna charge them for debugging 250K lines of AI code or better yet probably writing everything from scratch

[-] Ziglin@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

The latter sounds a lot cheaper.

[-] maxwells_daemon@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago

250000 lines accepted.

While attempting to fix 3 individual issues.

[-] SeventySeven@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 days ago

I hate the future.

[-] goatinspace@feddit.org 18 points 6 days ago
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[-] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 8 points 5 days ago

Why the fuck does he have 2 Laptops and 2 additional monitors? It would annoy the hell out of me having to reach out to change something on one of the laptops.

[-] Batman@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago

You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like

[-] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 10 points 6 days ago

The CEO also looks underage, graduated last year after an internship with Microsoft. I can’t find any record of investment in the company or even any record of incorporation (to be fair I didn’t look very hard). The CEO and his whizz-kid AI coder may be the two smartest people on the planet - stranger things have happened - but statistically, and going by available data only, listening very much to a teenager (or thereabouts) hawking the skill of another teenager (confirmed) is a bit like watching two drunk kids in town thumping their chests.

For sure younger people will grow up to replace older people - such is the way of the world - and a salty coder is usually undertaken by fresh talent coming in with new skill sets (been on both sides of that), but right now, there’s nothing demanding attention here.

[-] napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 days ago

I built a website that uses ChatGPT API for no particular reason whatsoever. Can I slap AI-native on my resume?

You can slap anything on your resume if you can explain it in the interview.

[-] j4k3@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

need a put option stock market tutorial please

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

You just predict the exact date the company will fail, and buy the puts expiring the following month.

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