Yeah, it was a real mind-boggling moment when I finally saw all these scientific papers in the computer science field are a bunch of useless bs. Like, I'm glad I learned this, but it did piss me off heavily. I was reading so much crap only to learn NOTHING. Nothing was useful; it was all bs. Like, the whole "publish or perish" phrase is true af. They literally just publish anything just to have crap published. And wild enough, these random journals are happily publishing them too. It makes me wonder then what are the boundless amount of trash that wasn't "worthy" of their journal seal? Like, if THESE are the papers that get through...the ones that don't must be absolute Bantha poo doo.



But yeah, future Jabari here, relistening to this is an interesting ordeal because I made a project that could EASILY be the most profound paper in existence on my own without some bs doctorate... just tells you all this crap is just a big nepotist circle jerk. There's literally nothing special about these professors or doctorate students. Just people who can bs their way into writing slop in a fancy way.

Like, don't get me wrong, vibe coding is very helpful, and I use it. I even potentially in the future (for this podcast) vibe coded the irrelevancy of the current vibe coding, but you have to use it properly. Similar to managing a worker or trainee, you don't just go “okay, due this and this, and I expect it to be done by Friday, and it better work or I'll be mad!"... no, you give proper plans and expectations. You have to know your own project in and out, so in the inevitable situation where the worker misinterpreted your request or messed up, you can easily pivot. You need to test thoroughly so crap doesn't sneak attack you. You need to constantly understand the potentials of what could happen AND understand what is happening currently. Read over the code that is written and understand it.



Sadly, people even at the highest levels "vibe code" and literally just vibe. They don't look over and don't give af. And then, lo and behold, it’s glitches galore.

I truly think this. Like everything that's new is going to be hard, but you do it daily, it will become easier. No matter what it is. I don't care how complicated or if you literally have never done it before. You will learn it. It could even be something insane like some type of science or math or engineering or medical or whatever tf. Like look at war, they have to train random kids fresh out of high school to do stuff they could never imagine during boot camp in about a month and then boom, they are told to risk your life on the battlefront or help build stuff to risk people’s lives on the battlefront. The only reason people can't learn stuff in a month is they don't have the motivation to do it. But I bet if they are struggling to pay bills/need money/etc etc, and get some job that's beyond their skillset...within the month they will be nearly full performance.