Adam Becker

i'm so smart i made the i made it do this but also i'm going to give it credit for the thing that i ended up doing most of the work on if i'm honest right i mean but this is also this is part of why i think the people who are most convinced that this is going to take over every job and one shot everything um

are so often software engineers because yeah okay this thing is changing the way that people code and does seem to be able to you know write some code for some people but you know that's a limited human task right and and even for people whose job is you know to be a software engineer the actual writing of code is is just one part of of what the job is and the thing that's

I think that the trap that these people fall into a lot of the time is they believe that their job, software engineering, writing code, is like the ultimate human intellectual achievement.

And so if you have something that can do that, it must be able to do anything.

And that's just not true.

I mean, it's like, yeah, I mean, Anthropix, Claude Code, you know, code base dropped.

And they're like, yeah, we wrote Claude Code with Claude Code.

And then there were a bunch of coders in there saying, yeah, I can tell that you did.

Yeah.

I mean, I'm sure, like, I'm very willing to believe that it's a helpful tool for finding certain kinds of vulnerabilities.

But you're completely right.

This is a marketing gimmick.

Come on.

It's because we've got this narrative that comes out of these, you know, AI cults like the rationalists that AI is going to take over the world and be able to, you know, make itself super intelligent and end humanity forever.

once it's able to write its own code.

And all of that's just a sci-fi fantasy, but it makes it very easy for Anthropic to do these sorts of marketing gimmicks or, oh man, I don't remember who it was who pointed this out, but someone, I saw someone online say, it's not just that it's a marketing gimmick, it's also that this is a way of sort of soft launching it as an enterprise only product that's not available to the general consumer.

Yeah, I mean, I just, the amount of vibe-based crap around all of this, like to me, I mean, because of my background as an astrophysicist,

To me, the number one thing that is clearly just vibes is this whole push for orbital data centers, which is just the stupidest fucking idea.

I don't, I don't remember how much they like, I don't remember how, like what the, what the numbers are for power generation, but I know that bleeding off heat is a serious problem.

And so, because like space is a vacuum, vacuum is an insulator.