On Claudinho, Vibes and Codas

I didn’t expect to spend a good part of my day talking to a robot. And I mean talking, out loud. It answers in writing, so deep down it’s a bit like talking to yourself with someone who doesn’t exactly answer. But it does. And that answer is why the world is losing its mind. That juiced-up answer.

Jaw on the floor

I remember the first time I typed into a prompt box and got an answer back. I thought: no way. I watched plenty of people, colleagues included, have the same reaction right in front of me. Then came LLMs, then RAG, JEV...

I’m amazed the same way the internet fascinates me. And, I’ll admit, a little scared too.

Feels like using a computer

For me, using AI already feels as natural as using a computer. I find it curious when I talk about it and the other person doesn’t feel the same. Some say it makes us dependent. Maybe. But I also depend on my computer to work, and nobody finds that strange.

An exoskeleton

AI lets me do things that would take me ages to learn on my own, like writing certain kinds of code. I do the vibe coding, then face the vibe debugging, but the project moves. Without it, it wouldn’t. It’s an exoskeleton: the strength goes up, the direction is still mine.

What’s still mine

The research, the questions and the decisions. No model knows what the marketing director said over coffee after the meeting. AI comes in to expand: I write a sentence, ask for ten variations, throw out nine. I test five sitemap paths instead of one.

AI doesn’t make me think faster. It makes me faster at testing what I thought.

There are important things to watch out for when it enters the work, and there are quite a few. Even so, I believe we need to stay open to testing it and figuring out where it helps. Whatever your field, you can build something that makes your day easier.

What I really want

I like cyborgs. There’s a toy spinosaurus here on my desk, and my dream is for it to talk. To tell me what its diet was (fish, lots of fish) and some silly story from when it roamed the Earth, about 95 million years ago, before it became an office ornament.

And then there’s the magic. I say “create a circle”, and a circle appears.

create a circle

Isn’t that interesting?