I got a nudge yesterday reminding me I could choose to opt-in to a free Artificial Intelligence (AI) helper to essentially allow it to assist me in doing certain tasks. There’s a YouTube presentation about it featuring a nice guy named Jamie (see below).
While the suggestion sounds like it wouldn’t necessarily automatically allow AI to do the actual creating of a blog post, I’m suspicious that it might move in that direction. The term for this new thing is “Vibe Coding.” It’s not clear what that means. A commenter on the YouTube has a cheeky remark about the term.
I found a website that clarifies the term to some extent. The general idea is that you tell in plain, non-technical language to AI what you want to do when you want to do something with your website that would normally require you to know something about coding. Then, AI does all the coding. It all sounds great until you get down to toward the bottom of the page. Then you hear about the limitations of this approach:
“While it has many benefits, relying entirely on AI to create software is not without risks.
- Hallucinations: AI can confidently write code that looks correct but fails to run or uses non-existent libraries.
- Maintenance difficulty: If you don’t understand the code the AI wrote, fixing a bug that the AI cannot resolve can become a major roadblock.
- Security risks: AI might generate code with vulnerabilities if not prompted to follow security best practices. It’s important to choose a vibe coding tool that has advanced security practices and infrastructure.”
There’s a YouTube presentation by a polite guy named Jamie (who I think is a real person) which drew some comments. One of them is my favorite which is just a long string of words like “terrible” and so on, which are obviously adjectives expressing how bad an idea Vibe Posting is. Jamie replies with a question: “Is your comment about the use of AI within WordPress?”
Well, yeah. Sena still says that AI “should be dislodged!”
I remember reading about the WordPress AI assistant a while back and there was a long disclaimer saying that if a blogger used it, WordPress would not be liable for any legal trouble you might incur by doing so.
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