If only Bain could use their AI skills to fix their website. It's a horrible and convoluted mess!
How would the AI fix fix that?
Bain tests software takeover targets by vibecoding AI replicas
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#22Is the future of software really vibe coded by management consultants..?
"Make my web app secure."
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#23This is like saying Twitter isn't worth much because every web framework tutorial produces a "Twitter clone."
Well, Twitter isn't worth much, or at least not what Elon paid for it in 2022, it just carries on like a zombie under a different name and investors got bailed out by being rolled into xAI and then the SpaceX IPO.
Though your point that Twitter's value was never in the code stands.
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#24If only Bain could use their AI skills to fix their website. It's a horrible and convoluted mess!
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#25Somewhat fitting that we just got the Backrooms movie which is about making Uncanny Valley copies of locations (and people) and here we have Uncanny Valley copies of software...
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#26This seems incredibly logical if the application is claiming its IP has value without accounts/revenue that justify that value.
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#27Is the future of software really vibe coded by management consultants..?
Software consulting has been around for a very long time. Decades. It has always been overpriced and had huge margins. I think what management consultants are really afraid of is being replaced. By AI.
Big management consulting firms real value prop is two-fold 1) (value to it's employees) networking for the corporate leadership class when young and 2) (value to outside companies) blame insurance, you can always blame them for why something didn't work
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#28Is the future of software really vibe coded by management consultants..?
Software consulting has been around for a very long time. Decades. It has always been overpriced and had huge margins. I think what management consultants are really afraid of is being replaced. By AI.
> It has always been overpriced and had huge margins.
This is the engineer’s take on things. I am entirely sympathetic to it.
I also think it missed a lot of what management values in consulting. At its best, you can offload a lot of things unrelated to your business to people who are experts. At its worst, you’ve offloaded the blame to a group of over-worked twenty-something’s with impressive degrees who have no idea what they’re doing, but who sound really fucking confident about it.
Can an internal team do it better? Probably. Will they be cheaper? Probably. Will they assuage management’s anxieties and deflect some/all of the blame? Nope, not at all.
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#29Is the future of software really vibe coded by management consultants..?
Basic CRUD apps? Sure, why not. Anything substantially new will still require an engineer in the loop. Specifically, if a new design pattern, archtecture, etc is required. AI can only build on its training material - it can't yet have original thoughts.
>AI can only build on its training material - it can't yet have original thoughts.
Oh, so it's only good for 99.9999% of all software?
And people will say things like, "it's limited by training data" without any mention of just how VAST that data is.
While you're here, can you give us some "original thoughts" to demonstrate your ability over Claude?
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#30This is like saying Twitter isn't worth much because every web framework tutorial produces a "Twitter clone."
Well, Twitter isn't worth much, or at least not what Elon paid for it in 2022, it just carries on like a zombie under a different name and investors got bailed out by being rolled into xAI and then the SpaceX IPO. Though your point that Twitter's value was never in the code stands.
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