need a put option stock market tutorial please
You just predict the exact date the company will fail, and buy the puts expiring the following month.
I fully believe this guy has no idea how horrific the things he’s boasting about actually are.
As is the usual on LinkedIn
250k lines of Cursor code
Oh no…
And they’ll wonder in 6 months why the application runs like shit, randomly crashes, doesn’t load, etc. Bunch of untrackable issues in the making. Gg, good luck
Surely, Arno receives 10 times the salary, right?
He is getting paid $15.50/hr Which is the state minimum wage.
I assumed they were in Estonia from the names
He doesn’t. And don’t call me Shirley
In “eXpOsUrE” and “MaRkEt ExPeRiEnCe”
100% this kid is getting just as fucked over as the rest of us, and because he’s young the corpos have a smidge more time to do so before he gets pissed off too.
I saw a question posted recently asking what age everyone was when they learned that they weren’t going to get any rewards for working extra hard. I guess in some work it’s harder to see than in others.
20’s
An unpaid internist probably.
I hope all the CEOs like this guy go hard all in on AI and prove to the world that it’s a sound business decision.
And if they’re wrong, may they never complain about the hourly rates of contractors they have to call in to dig them out of the hole their AI dug for them.
guess how much people are gonna charge them for debugging 250K lines of AI code or better yet probably writing everything from scratch
250000 lines accepted.
While attempting to fix 3 individual issues.
Just imagine the slop.
I’m imagining functions that only exist to fix the incorrect output of other functions, God knows how deep.
Why the fuck does he have 2 Laptops and 2 additional monitors? It would annoy the hell out of me having to reach out to change something on one of the laptops.
You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like
This has to be rage bait.
He posted an update:
At this point, I’m half convinced he’s a masterful troll.
He’s from Norway, so being a troll feels on brand.
“Hey kid, hold still while we throw some fake money on you and take a photo. It’s for marketing.”
Sorry but what even is a ‘technical 1v1’?
…sure?
This kid doesn’t know what he’s writing or why, he’s just coaxing cursor to vomit up commits and apparently that’s their only metric for success.
I work with AI tools and with people who are absolute top tier Cursor users and their shit is always broken. They iterate fast but they absolutely do not fully understand what they’re producing. It’s great for rolling out flashy UI quickly (apparently the only thing investors care about), then you watch it all go to shit the second you push because every update breaks everything in horrifying ways. It’s like watching the early days of enterprise C++/Java where everything was spaghetti, but 100x worse.
I don’t think this paradigm of AI is likely to rival a decent human developer, there needs to be a fundamental change in how the models work and how we use them. What were doing now is hoping quantity is somehow going to replace quality.
It’s astounding how many lowlifes are using commit counts to measure impact. It’s just throwing bisectability out the window and promoting stupid tactics for quick returns.
I hate the future.
I kind of feel bad for the kid and hope he’s actually learning something as he goes on.
If not he’ll be a “AI-native” McDonalds employee after the bubble bursts.
"You’re right, there is supposed to cheese on a cheeseburger. Please excuse my mistake“
lol. Meanwhile record numbers of tech grads are working non-tech jobs.
I’m 8-10 years from retirement and I’m fine with this. I always knew younger, better coders will come along. Anyone holding on to their 90s or 00s coding skills… Well… Good luck with that.
That, and this kid is still the very rare exception. I don’t think he’s representative of most 18 year olds.
They’re saying it’s because he’s using AI. They have 250k+ lines of cursor (LLM/AI) generated code in their codebase
Yep, understood. And I still don’t think this is a common skill for most 18 year olds. But I’d like to know if this is more common than I realize.
In principle it shouldn’t be very hard because premium versions of AI coding assistants keep regenerating the code until it compiles (without requiring anything after the initial prompt). After that it becomes a matter of checking whether the compiled code does what you want. If it does not you can tell it to fix those behaviours without knowing any/much coding at all. Though if you can’t point it to the location of the code that causes the problem, it becomes a tug of war. This is because they can’t really follow instructions like “keep the last change you made but do this” with %100 efficiency.
We shouldn’t even begin to discuss stuff like good practices. If the person using the AI coding assistant isn’t experienced in the field and doing stuff like coding databases, then you are pretty much at the mercy of AI. It may superficially seem to know what are good security practices but again if the person at the helm doesn’t know them and or can’t check them in the code, it is pretty much up to chance. See for instance:
https://www.veracode.com/blog/genai-code-security-report/
I feel like there might be a sweet spot for AI coding assistants but it is definitely not asking it to write a complete app or a website with a db from scratch. They should really tune it so that it can do the time consuming boiler plate stuff so people can actually focus on development, testing, and problem solving. Instead they try to develop it and sell it as an almost completely autonomous coder which seems like a futile effort for the current state of LLMs.
And precisely the approaches like “we don’t need old styled senior coders anymore we can get anyone to produce code for cheaper” is what might fuck us. There will be a gap in the transfer of good practices and experience from the older generation to the younger which AI won’t be able to fill. People will have to rediscover all of those again with probably quite a lot of pain for them and their users.
If it’s even true, this is like a 9 yo kid hitting a flip switch dumping 30 tons of sand. But repeatedly all day long. Good luck cleaning it all up.
