diff --git a/src/assets/ai_generated_blindfold.jpeg b/src/assets/ai_generated_blindfold.jpeg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..80e45a1 Binary files /dev/null and b/src/assets/ai_generated_blindfold.jpeg differ diff --git a/src/routes/posts/an_ai_generated_blindfold.mdx b/src/routes/posts/an_ai_generated_blindfold.mdx index ce0d6c6..c24c3b5 100644 --- a/src/routes/posts/an_ai_generated_blindfold.mdx +++ b/src/routes/posts/an_ai_generated_blindfold.mdx @@ -3,11 +3,18 @@ meta: title: An AI-generated blindfold description: Increasingly, I'm finding it hard to hard to get a sense of human consensus on a topic from the internet dateCreated: 2026-08-27 + image: "ai_generated_blindfold" tags: - "software_engineering" - "ai" + --- +import blindfold from "@/assets/ai_generated_blindfold.jpeg"; + + + + Let's say I've got whatever question, usually about AI; here are real examples of questions I've had @@ -30,12 +37,16 @@ This makes it hard to assess whether people are actually getting value form that Similarly - I can find various tools online, but again it's hard to assess whether anyone is getting value from them, or if it is a vibe coded side project with no real battle testing. +ai generated image. A man is crouching in a messy room surrounded by books and computer in the background. He is wearing a device over his eyes which appears appears some kind of graphic interface. + + ## It's less of a problem for regular pre-AI software engineering concepts Recently I've been doing more with telemetry and observability. I use chat-based AI for this and generally I trust the answer I'm getting. + ## It's more a problem for new fields - such as AI itself AI is a fast moving field - so it's fair to say 'of course you can't get a clear picture of what the consensus is - there _is_ no consensus'.