Alex

Look mom, I’m vibe-coding a SaaS!

My guess would be because most people don’t understand what you all actually do so gen AI output looks to them like their impression of the work you do. Just look at the game studios replacing concept artists with Midjourney, not grasping what concept art even is for and screwing up everyone’s workflow as a result.

I’m neither a programmer nor an artist I can sorta understand how people get fooled. Show me a snippet of nonsense code or image and I’ll nod along if you say it’s good. But then as a writer (even if only hobbyist) I am able to see how godawful gen AI writing is whereas some non-writers won’t, and so I extrapolate from that since it’s not good at the thing I have domain expertise in, it probably isn’t good at the things I don’t understand.

Could I ask you a question I’ve always wondered about the translation business? Why do people send in machine translation asking for cleanup and even expect it’ll cost them less?

Maybe I’m ignorant, but the way I see it, great machine translation tools are widely and freely accessible to anyone. If I needed professional translation done, I wouldn’t think copy-pasting a document into Google Translate – something that takes literal minutes – would get me any type of discount. It just doesn’t make sense to me.

Oh god, it only gets worse the further down the article you go.

ethics experts remain focused on questions of how prepared the industry is for sentient characters [emphasis mine]

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Oh my god, they’re showing signs of sentience.

Gonna have to agree with zogwarg here. I checked out the Reddit profile and they’re a self-proclaimed entrepreneur whose one-man “agency” has zero clients and yet to even have an idea, attempting to crowdsource the latter on r/entrepreneur.