mastodon 4.7.3Professor of software engineering, programmer, technology author. (Tech tweets here. Follow @DSpinellis@mstdn.social for Greek/Greece tweets.)
Today we launch a new run of the popular and award-winning free massive online course (MOOC) on the use of Unix Tools for data, software and production engineering. More than 7,500 learners enrolled on edX. Now, a further reason to follow the course is to improve your understanding of AI Agents' actions and your interaction with them. More information at https://www.spinellis.gr/unix/?utm=md260508
Vibe coding toward the incident horizon
We are living through a golden age of generative AI: a time when progress is both breathtaking and somehow still unable to reliably open a PDF without hallucinating the author’s middle name. The curve is real, the funding is real, and the demos are so real that they must be watched on a stage with dramatic lighting, because ordinary lighting reveals too much.
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