I fully believe this guy has no idea how horrific the things he’s boasting about actually are.
As is the usual on LinkedIn
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In “eXpOsUrE” and “MaRkEt ExPeRiEnCe”
100% this kid is getting just as fucked over as the rest of us, and because he’s young the corpos have a smidge more time to do so before he gets pissed off too.
I saw a question posted recently asking what age everyone was when they learned that they weren’t going to get any rewards for working extra hard. I guess in some work it’s harder to see than in others.
20’s
An unpaid internist probably.
He is getting paid $15.50/hr Which is the state minimum wage.
I assumed they were in Estonia from the names
He doesn’t. And don’t call me Shirley
250k lines of Cursor code
Oh no…
…sure?
This kid doesn’t know what he’s writing or why, he’s just coaxing cursor to vomit up commits and apparently that’s their only metric for success.
I work with AI tools and with people who are absolute top tier Cursor users and their shit is always broken. They iterate fast but they absolutely do not fully understand what they’re producing. It’s great for rolling out flashy UI quickly (apparently the only thing investors care about), then you watch it all go to shit the second you push because every update breaks everything in horrifying ways. It’s like watching the early days of enterprise C++/Java where everything was spaghetti, but 100x worse.
I don’t think this paradigm of AI is likely to rival a decent human developer, there needs to be a fundamental change in how the models work and how we use them. What were doing now is hoping quantity is somehow going to replace quality.
It’s astounding how many lowlifes are using commit counts to measure impact. It’s just throwing bisectability out the window and promoting stupid tactics for quick returns.
“This younger person is better than you and will take your job” oh boy like that’s something new that ceos have never said before.
This is an attempt to manipulate workers into accepting lower wages for longer hours. That’s what “AI” is to them.
The more CEOs believe this, the more I will be able to demand in salary about 5 years from now.
I kind of feel bad for the kid and hope he’s actually learning something as he goes on.
If not he’ll be a “AI-native” McDonalds employee after the bubble bursts.
"You’re right, there is supposed to cheese on a cheeseburger. Please excuse my mistake“
I hope all the CEOs like this guy go hard all in on AI and prove to the world that it’s a sound business decision.
And if they’re wrong, may they never complain about the hourly rates of contractors they have to call in to dig them out of the hole their AI dug for them.
guess how much people are gonna charge them for debugging 250K lines of AI code or better yet probably writing everything from scratch
The latter sounds a lot cheaper.
And they’ll wonder in 6 months why the application runs like shit, randomly crashes, doesn’t load, etc. Bunch of untrackable issues in the making. Gg, good luck
boasting about child labour…Sir are you by any chance from Florida?
Sir I do believe the term you are looking for is “student af-uh-leets”
.Child labor? He’s a senior in high school, it’s common to have a job at that age.
He is being presented as a person who is being tasked with writing entire code bases and the same job as a senior developer. Even if we give him the benefit of doubt and assume that he is being paid handsomely (which I doubt since we are all very well aware of the mentality of such people whose sole goal is to use AI coders to pay as less as possible, none if possible), the responsibilities involved in this is a full time job, not the part time job most high schoolers do during summer time. Even then it is not “common” for high schoolers to work unless you have never left US. In many places, there are some that do unfortunately do need to work due to economic reasons. But rarely outside of US it is presented as excellent work ethics and patriotism. It is more common for people in mid to late university years to start working as “interns” not full time developers. Also see:
“The Convention on the Rights of the Child defines a “child” as a person below the age of 18, unless the relevant laws recognize an earlier age of majority.”
So if you are going to boast about a kid who is producing massive code bases, at least say something like “wow he is still not eighteen but look at what this kid is doing”, do not try to present that as the new norm. That is just pathetic greedy skill-less, spineless wanna-be intrapreneur behaviour.
Everyone is talking as if he was a real person.
He’s clearly AI generated.
I knew more than a few 17 year olds who dropped out of high school to work full time. One was emancipated. A few eventually got their GEDs. It’s not an easy life, but it’s reality for a lot of people.
If he’s capable of handling that level of responsibility I don’t see any reason he shouldn’t be allowed to. If he’s not capable, then the only person being harmed is his employer. Only thing I’m concerned about is whether or not he’s being compensated fairly.
Yes but I think the abnormality here is the guy trying to sell this as the new normal, not even to mention all the associated problems with basing an entire code base on AI (which is a different problem than boasting about getting kids to write your whole code base but related)
Yeah, the whole situation is definitely eyebrow raising.
AI makes it pretty trivial to vomit out large amounts of code. 250,000 lines is nothing. The code quality is garbage, of course, and will be hell to maintain in the coming years. It will likely just be rewritten again if the company is still around.
If there’s one thing high school students have a ton of it’s free time. When I was that age I put thousands of hours into video games and got nothing to show for it. I applaud this kid for turning his high school hobby into a paycheque.
Most people turn 18 during the last year of high school, which means that there is a very significant chance that the dev in question is still covered under child labor laws.
Maybe it is because I grew up in the North East United States, but when I was in high school, my classmates only worked seasonal or afternoon jobs.
The high school I went to let seniors who had jobs leave at noon. They took the core classes but not electives and were allowed to graduate as long as their boss confirmed that they were working and not just skipping class. It was legal.
Reality: he got a coworker’s kid to sit there for a photoshoot, for this post. That photo looks staged as fuck.
Photo being staged is not a good enough way to prove that the subject is not what he is claimed to be.
The guy might be hunched forward while actually working and might not be using as many devices, but still might be vibe coding.I remember having a staged photoshoot where I was asked to sit with another person next to me on my work computer, acting like I we were discussing something on screen. I ran some fancy stuff on screen for effect.
While actually working, I used to mostly talk directly while we both were sitting on our own systems, but that doesn’t change the fact that I worked there and had made said fancy stuff before.
I really like it when company representatives openly boast their use of AI.
Makes it easy for me to put in a list of “Do not buy from” companies.
He’s explicitly selling AI based solutions, so luckily everyone sensible skips over that right away.
I can’t imagine integrating AI to my codebases to a meaningful degree. I’ve worked mostly with health or financial syatems. Accuracy is of utmost importance. Imagine your paycheck is half what it should be because of AI.
Imagine your paycheck is half what it should be because of AI.
If that were to happen it won’t be due to AI, it would be them using AI as a scapegoat.
Because they would definitely make sure to add a check to make sure I didn’t get more than that.
Even if they replace you with AI, they will make sure to call you back and pay you 10x your time for that 1 thing.The company doing the payroll software isn’t the company paying you though
I was thinking about payment processors and banks.
They might debit more from the payer’s account and credit less to the payee’s account and that way at the end of the FY, they will have this happy coincidence of having higher than anticipated credit from the Reserve Bank.
He posted an update:
At this point, I’m half convinced he’s a masterful troll.
He’s from Norway, so being a troll feels on brand.
“Hey kid, hold still while we throw some fake money on you and take a photo. It’s for marketing.”
Sorry but what even is a ‘technical 1v1’?
Does anyone want to actually schedule a call?
2 laptops to open 2 tabs?
Something something modern software resource utilization.
This has to be rage bait.
