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Nah I’m all over the place. I said the last 10, to check if the 90% claim could be true if you do what I’ve done recently: use it for tons of little general ad hoc things rather than eg code needing serious accuracy.

I don’t “trust” it in the way I’d trust a smart colleague. We know how this works: use it for info that has a lot of results, or ask it to ground itself if it’s eg new info and you can’t rely on training memory. Asking it about esoteric languages or algo’s or numbers will just make you sad. It will generate 1000 confident tokens. But if you told me to lose Google or ChatGPT+Claude, Google is getting dumped instantly.



This matches my experience as well. As you can see at the end of the article, I've vibe-coded full apps with zero knowledge of Swift/SwiftUI.




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