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I have an extremely small company where I am the only employee and AI has let me build and do stuff that I would have needed a small team for the quality of what I went from to what I’m able to do now is really great and it’s thanks to ai.
I have no formal training for work experience in coding, but I taught myself python, years ago. Additionally, I don’t work in IT, so I think using ai to code has been extremely beneficial.
So you're saying you have no professional coding experience, yet you know that a team of professionals couldn't produce code at the quality you want?
Also, saying "extremely small company" when you mean self employed is weird. It's fine to have your own company for a business/contracting.
I just hope you actually understand the code that has been produced and no customer or company data is at risk.
Yup. The absolute only useful task I’ve found it to handle is code documentation, which is as fast as it’s allowed to travel in my sphere.
Financially, I earn a really low amount. I e been freelance for a while, but am trying to grow the business, so it’s extremely small.
All the stuff I’m using AI for is just for presentation of internal materials. Nothing critical.
I feel similar.
The AI is great for low value tasks that eat time but aren’t difficult nor require high skill, nor are they risky. That’s the stuff that’s traditionally really difficult to automate.
When I’m actually doing the core parts of my job AI is so awful it’s clear humans are not going anywhere.
But those annoying side tasks need to get done.
I’ve set up a bunch of read only AI tool and that’s enough to speed up huge amounts of work.
That's great but you're not what this article and is about. There are tens of thousands of companies popping up left and right with far less ambition to succeed who just want to launch the next "AI powered toaster" and are hoping to make a fast buck and get bought out by a larger company like Google or OpenAI or Meta.
Combine that with growing public skepticism of AI and a general attitude that it's being overused, the same attitude that makes you knee-jerk defensive about your business, an attitude which is growing and people are losing interest in AI broadly as a feature because it's being overplayed and over-hyped and not delivering promises. This makes for a bubble that is growing, a bubble with nothing inside that becomes more and more fragile every day. Not everyone is a successful vibe-coder nor can they be.
I think you have blatant security holes that threaten your bottom line and your customers.