“re: software development with LLMs—if you don’t know how the code works (as so many vibe coders brag), how do you know it’s not subtly enabling racism or sexism? or overtly, for that matter (..)

(..)

i’m especially worried about this dynamic in the areas of data science and data journalism, where it’s already so easy to perform flawed analyses that amplify and perpetuate bias in the data (Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 did a great episode about this

(it’s just incredibly frustrating to me that the same world that has books like Algorithms of Oppression and Data Feminism and Weapons of Math Destruction, alongside all the scholarship that led up to those books, also has so much thoughtless hype around code slop by the pound)“