Klarna CEO Makes Employees Review His AI-Generated Vibe Coding Projects

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Klarna's CEO is using AI to generate coding projects and having employees review them, sparking concerns about the practice's value and impact on employees.

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donsupreme

4 months ago

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> “Rather than disturbing my poor engineers and product people with what is half good ideas and half bad ideas, now I test it myself. I come say, ‘Look, I’ve actually made this work, this is how it works, what do you think, could we do it this way?’” he said.

nwmcsween

4 months ago

This would be my personal hell, let me just read n files of AI slop from the CEO.

tdeck

4 months ago

If "this is how it works" is about testing the functionality or user experience of a proposed feature idea with a prototype, this is actually a good thing. If it's about "see, you can implement this feature I want and it only takes 20 minutes" that's a very different conversation.

duxup

4 months ago

He says it takes him an 20 minutes, then he disturbs his engineers…

I don’t think h is saving anyone anytime.

darthrupert

4 months ago

An AI board would certainly fire a CEO of a $20 billion company who wastes their time doing little tweaking like that. I mean even if there'd be a perfect AI that does something beyond slop consistently, this would still be a waste of time for a CEO.

At least if this is true at all, which should be perhaps doubted a little bit.

nar001

4 months ago

His company is gonna fold in the future anyway, so I don't think it matters much

jethronethro

4 months ago

Wonder what they say about the code. Or do they bite their tongues and make it work?

dv_dt

4 months ago

over the wall engineering is poor practice, AI powered or not

turtleyacht

4 months ago