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"Your interactive C-suite demo memo is not going to get you any results."

In this week’s newsletter, @richziade has some constructive feedback for the CEOs who can’t stop vibe coding things to show their employees: https://t.co/uPpY9rgaGE

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"My long-term bet is that software development will look somewhat less like a factory and more like making a magazine, or a film, or producing an album," writes @ftrain. "Talk is cheap, prose is hardly more expensive, and now code is cheap, too." https://t.co/NMdylIUHjV

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Can two people who host a podcast subtitled “software in the age of AI” go half an hour without bringing up the term?

On this week’s Aboard Podcast, @ftrain and @richziade attempt to talk about something—anything—tech-related that isn’t AI.

Listen now: https://t.co/qdKiDz81vd

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"The starting point is being really curious when you're young, and just being in love with this stuff."

On the latest Aboard Podcast, @craigmod gives some advice for anyone interested in building software with AI.

Check out the whole conversation: https://t.co/tgOF4KyTur

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"In a year or two, we can go back to talking about literally anything else on our podcasts."

In this week's newsletter, @ftrain looks ahead to what will happen after the AI bubble bursts—"like Times Square the morning of January 1st": https://t.co/Ry0A9oe4Ri

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"I don't think we contain the genetic code to survive what we're doing," says @craigmod. "It just feels like humans aren't going to make it."

On the Aboard Podcast, a conversation about using AI to build tax software...takes a turn.

Listen or watch: https://t.co/tgOF4KyTur

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"Everyone expects the bubble will pop—they just hope it pops after their IPO," writes @ftrain. "Then it’s like Times Square the morning of January 1st: Everyone has gone home and there’s confetti everywhere and people pushing brooms." https://t.co/BzFB4KTfx6

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Sure, AI might bring on the end times—but you can use it to build your own tax software!

On this week’s podcast, @ftrain and @richziade are joined by @craigmod, who recently took to Claude to build a version of Quicken that suited his tax-filing needs: https://t.co/IulzXLkSg7

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Are Dr. Kamal Menghrajani's medical students allowed to use ChatGPT?

"I think AI can be an incredible tool as long as you use it for learning and not to replace critical thinking," she says.

On the Aboard Podcast, a conversation about medicine and AI: https://t.co/Dg4AvC7dBu

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"What I keep seeing from vibe coding is too much software, all at once, and not enough product."

In this week's newsletter, @richziade has some tough-love advice for CEOs who can't stop vibe coding: https://t.co/uPpY9rgaGE

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"I think there are certain things that you can learn in terms of quality improvement, quality assurance. But In terms of actually changing the practice of medicine?"

Dr. Kamal Menghrajani on how physicians get value from AI—and how they don't: https://t.co/Dg4AvC7dBu

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Doctors might be using AI to cut down on paperwork, but can these tools really be employed in clinical settings?

On the podcast, @ftrain and @richziade sit down with Dr. Kamal Menghrajani, a practicing oncologist and lecturer at Harvard Medical School: https://t.co/Dg4AvC7dBu

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"The boss is playing with the tools. That's part of the problem," says @richziade. But the boss's vibe-coded "software" is, "Not a plan. It's just a bunch of pretty colors."

On the Aboard Podcast, a why so few eng teams are seeing true gains with AI: https://t.co/SVY8KYFkZQ

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"When AI showed up and everyone was saying, 'It’s just a stochastic parrot!' all I could think was: Oh my god! A stochastic parrot! I have never wanted anything more in my life," writes @ftrain. https://t.co/Ui7zn62MYv

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"Remember when you start working and you kind of get that boss who sits you down and is like, 'This isn't it, buddy.' ... AI's never gonna do that."

@ftrain and @richziade discuss why only a fraction of eng teams are seeing real gains with AI coding: https://t.co/SVY8KYFkZQ

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The "stochastic parrot," @ftrain writes, "brings to mind all kinds of similar creatures: Heuristic toucans, probabilistic osprey, or if we want to get wild and branch out from birds, possibly even syntactic squirrels." https://t.co/Ui7zn62MYv

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“The advantages of this technology are not equally distributed.”

On the latest Aboard Podcast, @ftrain and @richziade discuss a report on enterprise teams using LLMs. Just 5% of orgs are seeing real gains from these tools—the reset are struggling: https://t.co/SVY8KYFkZQ

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"Either you were not serious about your pitch then, or something is missing now. But the contradiction is too big."

On the Aboard Podcast, @NewYorker's Andrew Marantz talks how Sam Altman's stated desire for AI to be regulated doesn't match his actions: https://t.co/0dWhskgLAh

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"There’s a pattern I keep seeing in software development, and I think it points to where we are headed in our AI future," writes @ftrain. "I call it the 'good loop.' ... It’s going to require a big, long thought experiment involving cookies." https://t.co/raYXEpFkxE

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Does anyone really want an AGI dictator?

On the latest Aboard Podcast, @NewYorker staff writer Andrew Marantz discusses his big piece on Sam Altman, and how he's thinking about the Musk v Altman trial.

Check out the whole conversation: https://t.co/0dWhskgLAh