Post B6QFHfX4RHwYMSGKye by matt@toot.cafe
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 (DIR) Post #B6QFHfX4RHwYMSGKye by matt@toot.cafe
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       I just read about a blind person vibe-coding a new email client for Windows. Not linking because I don't want people to pile onto this person, who is a veteran of the software industry and a respected, persistent accessibility advocate and contributor to assistive technology. Instead, I want to point out how badly the commercial software industry, particularly Microsoft in this case, has failed us such that an individual feels the need to do this. Don't know what to do instead though.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6QFHhXUyfTSaMThvE by matt@toot.cafe
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       On the one hand, it's good that blind people are taking initiative to solve our own problems, rather than begging big tech companies and/or under-resourced open-source projects to give us what we need.On the other hand, I still believe that relying heavily on an LLM to generate large volumes of code is dangerous, and that we don't fully understand the pitfalls.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6QFHjHGVzg3yatltg by matt@toot.cafe
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       Check out what Ron Pressler wrote about Anthropic's PR stunt of having agents build a C compiler. He looked at the actual results, not just the hype. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48170244> Today's models are not yet capable enough to build non-trivial production software without close and careful human supervision, even with perfect specs and perfect tests. Without a perfect spec and a perfect human-written test suite the task is even harder.An email client falls in that latter category.