A preregistered ETH Zurich study found that computer science knowledge, not writing skill, is the strongest predictor of vibe coding success. Here is what that does and does not say about DHH’s claim that programmers can be worse at AI coding than people who cannot code.
DHH told Lex Fridman that for some problems, programmers do worse with AI coding tools than people who cannot code. What the claim actually covers, and what it means for teams adopting AI agents.
When Tesla published patent WO2024073080 describing a new file format internally called “.smol”, the headline was simple: 4x reduction in IOPS for AI training. Most people read this as a hardware story. It isn’t. It’s a data architecture story. And it exposes a structural weakness in how most enterprise data Read more