alt Hacker NewsI have a close friend who is trying to build a company entirely on top of Claude. He doesn't know how to program. He can't do basic arithmetic. Yet, the company he's building is a "Data Science AI for the Government" because, according to him, all of the data scientists at NOAA don't know what they're doing.
I have given up on trying to get through to him how bad of an idea this is. He's unemployed and has been working on this for over a year.
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Yeah that's the scary part about these coding LLMs.
Before, some idiot would pitch their stupid idea to dozens of local webdev companies and banks and get told dozens of times their idea is straight up stupid and never going to work and they are stupid.
Now these LLMs allows them to bypass all of that advice and create what they want without any input or even knowing how the tech behind it works.
We are so fucked lol
Scientists are pretty solid overall for the Government. Lots of Phds that decide to take the steady reliable income and solid benefits over the risk of Academia for a few post docs hoping for a professor job.