Broken AI Discourse with Steve Klabnik

About this episode

Steve Klabnik discusses the broken state of AI discourse with Richard Feldman, exploring the extremes of hype and hate in the conversation around AI.

Longtime Rust contributor Steve Klabnik talks with Richard about the broken state of AI discourse, from excessive hype to excessive hate, and reasonable alternatives we could pursue instead. Steve's blog post: "I am disappointed in the AI discourse" - https://steveklabnik.com/writing/i-am-disappointed-in-the-ai-discourse/ Deep dive into why Rust's compile times are slow: https://www.pingcap.com/blog/rust-compilation-model-calamity/ Y Combinator partners on "100x productivity" claims: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IACHfKmZMr8&t=155s Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Richard Feldman

Guest: Steve Klabnik

Topics covered

• AI discourse
• Rust programming
• technology hype
• productivity claims
• software development

Keywords

• AI discourse
• Rust
• technology
• hype
• productivity

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Y Combinator, PingCAP

Books & works: I am disappointed in the AI discourse

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