AI coding agents have a Mythical Man-Month problem (Ep. 315)

Everyone's quoting Karpathy's "vibe coding" post. Almost no one quotes the part where he says it's for throwaway weekend projects, not production.  Struggling with AI and Software? Here is my new book available for purchase on https://mythicaltokenmonth.com/ Come have a chat on our Discord Channel:  https://discord.gg/4UNKGf3 Buy me a coffee https://ko-fi.com/datascience Check my company Amethix Technologies https://amethix.com  References https://mythicaltokenmonth.com/   ✨ Connect with us! Personal newsletter: https://defragzone.substack.com 📩 Newsletter: https://datascienceathome.substack.com 🎙 Podcast: Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. 🐦 Twitter: @DataScienceAtHome 📘 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fragadaleta/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/datascienceathome/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/datascienceAH LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/data-science-at-home-podcast NEW TO DATA SCIENCE AT HOME? Welcome! Data Science at Home explores the latest in AI, data science, and machine learning. Whether you’re a data professional, tech enthusiast, or just curious about the field, our podcast delivers insights, interviews, and discussions. Learn more at https://datascienceathome.com SEND US MAIL! We love hearing from you! Send us mail at: [email protected] Don’t forget to like, subscribe, and hit the 🔔 for updates on the latest in AI and data science!   We are excited to be featured in list of the top machine learning and data science podcasts in the world! https://www.millionpodcasts.com/machine-learning-podcasts/ https://www.millionpodcasts.com/data-science-podcasts/ https://www.millionpodcasts.com/big-data-podcasts/  

What do they mean when they say "AI is the new electricity" exactly. AI is much more than that. It is, in fact, infrastructure and public good. In this episode I expand on that. Struggling with AI and Software? Here is my new book available for purchase on https://mythicaltokenmonth.com/ Come have a chat on our Discord Channel:  https://discord.gg/4UNKGf3 Buy me a coffee https://ko-fi.com/datascience Check my company Amethix Technologies https://amethix.com  for opportunities and collaborations References https://typesafe.ai/ https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.23303 https://huggingface.co/spaces/convaiinnovations/laya-demo ✨ Connect with us! Personal newsletter: https://defragzone.substack.com 📩 Newsletter: https://datascienceathome.substack.com 🎙 Podcast: Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. 🐦 Twitter: @DataScienceAtHome 📘 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fragadaleta/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/datascienceathome/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/datascienceAH LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/data-science-at-home-podcast NEW TO DATA SCIENCE AT HOME? Welcome! Data Science at Home explores the latest in AI, data science, and machine learning. Whether you’re a data professional, tech enthusiast, or just curious about the field, our podcast delivers insights, interviews, and discussions. Learn more at https://datascienceathome.com SEND US MAIL! We love hearing from you! Send us mail at: [email protected] Don’t forget to like, subscribe, and hit the 🔔 for updates on the latest in AI and data science!   We are excited to be featured in list of the top machine learning and data science podcasts in the world! https://www.millionpodcasts.com/machine-learning-podcasts/ https://www.millionpodcasts.com/data-science-podcasts/ https://www.millionpodcasts.com/big-data-podcasts/    

What is the state of AI and videogames? Who is considering it? What are the big fails so far? This and much more is covered in this 1st episode of AI and videogames.   Buy me a coffee https://ko-fi.com/datascience Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/4UNKGf3   ✨ Connect with us! Personal newsletter: https://defragzone.substack.com 📩 Newsletter: https://datascienceathome.substack.com 🎙 Podcast: Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. 🐦 Twitter: @DataScienceAtHome 📘LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fragadaleta/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/datascienceathome/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/datascienceAH LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/data-science-at-home-podcast     SPONSORS This episode is brought to you by Outshift, Cisco's incubation engine. Check outshift.com Check out Drift by Amethix and stay safe on potential EU AI Act violations.       NEW TO DATA SCIENCE AT HOME? Welcome! Data Science at Home explores the latest in AI, data science, and machine learning. Whether you’re a data professional, tech enthusiast, or just curious about the field, our podcast delivers insights, interviews, and discussions. Learn more at https://datascienceathome.com   SEND US MAIL! We love hearing from you! Send us mail at: [email protected] Don’t forget to like, subscribe, and hit the 🔔 for updates on the latest in AI and data science!

A classifier went from a $200M to a $7.5B valuation in 24 days. We've seen this before: blockchain. Same hype, same irrational money. And no, it's not like the dot-com fiber boom: fiber lasts decades, GPUs go obsolete in a couple of years. Who pays when the music stops? Struggling with AI and Software? Here is my new book available for purchase on https://mythicaltokenmonth.com/ Come have a chat on our Discord Channel:  https://discord.gg/4UNKGf3 Buy me a coffee https://ko-fi.com/datascience Check my company Amethix Technologies https://amethix.com  References https://mythicaltokenmonth.com/ https://www.anthropic.com/research/AI-assistance-coding-skills https://the-decoder.com/ai-coding-tools-hurt-learning-unless-you-ask-why-anthropic-study-finds/ https://advait.org/files/lee_2025_ai_critical_thinking_survey.pdf https://www.theregister.com/software/2025/02/11/some-workers-are-already-outsourcing-their-brains-to-ai/1094150 https://avweb.com/news/faa-urges-maintenance-of-manual-flight-skills/ Anthropic: AI assistance and coding skills The Decoder on the Anthropic study Lee et al., CHI 2025 (PDF) The Register on the Microsoft study AVweb: FAA urges maintenance of manual flight skills   ✨ Connect with us! Personal newsletter: https://defragzone.substack.com 📩 Newsletter: https://datascienceathome.substack.com 🎙 Podcast: Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. 🐦 Twitter: @DataScienceAtHome 📘 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fragadaleta/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/datascienceathome/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/datascienceAH LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/data-science-at-home-podcast NEW TO DATA SCIENCE AT HOME? Welcome! Data Science at Home explores the latest in AI, data science, and machine learning. Whether you’re a data professional, tech enthusiast, or just curious about the field, our podcast delivers insights, interviews, and discussions. Learn more at https://datascienceathome.com SEND US MAIL! We love hearing from you! Send us mail at: [email protected] Don’t forget to like, subscribe, and hit the 🔔 for updates on the latest in AI and data science!

I wrote a chess engine that beats real players. I still can't play chess. Developers who hand their coding to AI are heading the same way: they can build the machine but can't play the game. We go through the evidence (Anthropic, METR, Microsoft/CMU), the best counterarguments, and the habits that protect your skills. The main one: never generate more code than you can read. Struggling with AI and Software? Here is my new book available for purchase on https://mythicaltokenmonth.com/ Come have a chat on our Discord Channel:  https://discord.gg/4UNKGf3 Buy me a coffee https://ko-fi.com/datascience Check my company Amethix Technologies https://amethix.com  References https://mythicaltokenmonth.com/   ✨ Connect with us! Personal newsletter: https://defragzone.substack.com 📩 Newsletter: https://datascienceathome.substack.com 🎙 Podcast: Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. 🐦 Twitter: @DataScienceAtHome 📘 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fragadaleta/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/datascienceathome/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/datascienceAH LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/data-science-at-home-podcast NEW TO DATA SCIENCE AT HOME? Welcome! Data Science at Home explores the latest in AI, data science, and machine learning. Whether you’re a data professional, tech enthusiast, or just curious about the field, our podcast delivers insights, interviews, and discussions. Learn more at https://datascienceathome.com SEND US MAIL! We love hearing from you! Send us mail at: [email protected] Don’t forget to like, subscribe, and hit the 🔔 for updates on the latest in AI and data science!

DHH told Rails World that hand-written code is over, that HEY's backend is being AI-rewritten in Rust ("amazing, as long as you never look at it"), and that developer happiness no longer matters. This episode checks his statements.   Struggling with AI and Software? Here is my new book available for purchase on https://mythicaltokenmonth.com/ Come have a chat on our Discord Channel:  https://discord.gg/4UNKGf3 Buy me a coffee https://ko-fi.com/datascience Check my company Amethix Technologies https://amethix.com  References https://mythicaltokenmonth.com/   ✨ Connect with us! Personal newsletter: https://defragzone.substack.com 📩 Newsletter: https://datascienceathome.substack.com 🎙 Podcast: Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. 🐦 Twitter: @DataScienceAtHome 📘 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fragadaleta/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/datascienceathome/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/datascienceAH LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/data-science-at-home-podcast NEW TO DATA SCIENCE AT HOME? Welcome! Data Science at Home explores the latest in AI, data science, and machine learning. Whether you’re a data professional, tech enthusiast, or just curious about the field, our podcast delivers insights, interviews, and discussions. Learn more at https://datascienceathome.com SEND US MAIL! We love hearing from you! Send us mail at: [email protected] Don’t forget to like, subscribe, and hit the 🔔 for updates on the latest in AI and data science!

Fifty years ago Fred Brooks showed why adding more people to a late project makes it later. Today we do the same thing with tokens — more context, more autonomy, same myth, different currency. Struggling with AI and Software? Here is my new book available for purchase on https://mythicaltokenmonth.com/ Come have a chat on our Discord Channel:  https://discord.gg/4UNKGf3 Buy me a coffee https://ko-fi.com/datascience Check my company Amethix Technologies https://amethix.com  References https://mythicaltokenmonth.com/   ✨ Connect with us! Personal newsletter: https://defragzone.substack.com 📩 Newsletter: https://datascienceathome.substack.com 🎙 Podcast: Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. 🐦 Twitter: @DataScienceAtHome 📘 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fragadaleta/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/datascienceathome/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/datascienceAH LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/data-science-at-home-podcast NEW TO DATA SCIENCE AT HOME? Welcome! Data Science at Home explores the latest in AI, data science, and machine learning. Whether you’re a data professional, tech enthusiast, or just curious about the field, our podcast delivers insights, interviews, and discussions. Learn more at https://datascienceathome.com SEND US MAIL! We love hearing from you! Send us mail at: [email protected] Don’t forget to like, subscribe, and hit the 🔔 for updates on the latest in AI and data science!

A 2025 solo-author paper on non-generative decision models, a 2026 frontier-lab launch that looks a lot like it, and what these fast, non-autoregressive models can and can't actually do. Struggling with AI and Software? Here is my new book available for purchase on https://mythicaltokenmonth.com/ Come have a chat on our Discord Channel:  https://discord.gg/4UNKGf3 Buy me a coffee https://ko-fi.com/datascience Check my company Amethix Technologies https://amethix.com  References https://typesafe.ai/ https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.23303 https://huggingface.co/spaces/convaiinnovations/laya-demo ✨ Connect with us! Personal newsletter: https://defragzone.substack.com 📩 Newsletter: https://datascienceathome.substack.com 🎙 Podcast: Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. 🐦 Twitter: @DataScienceAtHome 📘 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fragadaleta/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/datascienceathome/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/datascienceAH LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/data-science-at-home-podcast NEW TO DATA SCIENCE AT HOME? Welcome! Data Science at Home explores the latest in AI, data science, and machine learning. Whether you’re a data professional, tech enthusiast, or just curious about the field, our podcast delivers insights, interviews, and discussions. Learn more at https://datascienceathome.com SEND US MAIL! We love hearing from you! Send us mail at: [email protected] Don’t forget to like, subscribe, and hit the 🔔 for updates on the latest in AI and data science!

Three rival AI CEOs never agree on anything, until now. I break down the Sanders-Casar bill, the timing, and why "too dangerous" might be the best pitch deck line money can buy. Struggling with AI and Software? Here is my new book available for purchase on https://mythicaltokenmonth.com/ Come have a chat on our Discord Channel:  https://discord.gg/4UNKGf3 Buy me a coffee https://ko-fi.com/datascience Check my company Amethix Technologies https://amethix.com  References https://defragzone.substack.com/p/techs-dumbest-mistake-why-firing ✨ Connect with us! Personal newsletter: https://defragzone.substack.com 📩 Newsletter: https://datascienceathome.substack.com 🎙 Podcast: Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. 🐦 Twitter: @DataScienceAtHome 📘 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fragadaleta/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/datascienceathome/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/datascienceAH LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/data-science-at-home-podcast NEW TO DATA SCIENCE AT HOME? Welcome! Data Science at Home explores the latest in AI, data science, and machine learning. Whether you’re a data professional, tech enthusiast, or just curious about the field, our podcast delivers insights, interviews, and discussions. Learn more at https://datascienceathome.com SEND US MAIL! We love hearing from you! Send us mail at: [email protected] Don’t forget to like, subscribe, and hit the 🔔 for updates on the latest in AI and data science!

What is "wrong" with the EU AI Act? Watch the full episode and get in touch.   Buy me a coffee https://ko-fi.com/datascience Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/4UNKGf3   ✨ Connect with us! Personal newsletter: https://defragzone.substack.com 📩 Newsletter: https://datascienceathome.substack.com 🎙 Podcast: Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more. 🐦 Twitter: @DataScienceAtHome 📘LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fragadaleta/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/datascienceathome/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/datascienceAH LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/data-science-at-home-podcast     SPONSORS This episode is brought to you by Outshift, Cisco's incubation engine. Check outshift.com Check out Drift by Amethix and stay safe on potential EU AI Act violations.       NEW TO DATA SCIENCE AT HOME? Welcome! Data Science at Home explores the latest in AI, data science, and machine learning. Whether you’re a data professional, tech enthusiast, or just curious about the field, our podcast delivers insights, interviews, and discussions. Learn more at https://datascienceathome.com   SEND US MAIL! We love hearing from you! Send us mail at: [email protected] Don’t forget to like, subscribe, and hit the 🔔 for updates on the latest in AI and data science!