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One funny thing about incompetence is that they don't have the competence to know that their incompetence is straightforward to verify by a competent person.

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You just described every single vibe coder...

I think that's unfair to "vibe coding". If anybody explicitly claims to vibe coding something than they are admitting to low supervision of the code. And on the contrary you can also AI-produce code that you have supervised highly. I suppose there are people who both AI their code and push it as bespoke but I, for one, have not met such a person at our outside of work.

>> but I, for one, have not met such a person at our outside of work.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48516679

Why would they care? They get their salaries and pensions and bonuses, and the tax payer is footing the bill.

I wouldn’t describe what happened here as incompetence. As a “carioca”, I am pleasantly surprised to know that the government’s IT department is involved in AI work — even without the budget to create its own models from scratch.

This seems kind of insane though, every time I go to Rio I think of the potential of AI/technology to solve some problems and leave it even more paradisiacal... But working on their own model? Wtf? There are a million applications of existing ones there that should be followed up on instead.

It is a testament to the bloat and overreach of the Brazilian state in the economy. Such endeavors should be left to the private sector

I disagree. I’d prefer if my government invested more in AI solutions, so as not to depend so much on foreign technology.

In an ideal world, Brazil would have a thriving private sector, capable of competing even in the AI sector. Unfortunately, that’s not the case, and I believe that without government action such endeavors won’t really succeed.

They could do AI work without trying to lie to the entire rest of the world.

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