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This video is from the ‘AI with Kyle News and Updates Live Stream’ First aired: 20 October 2025
Summary: Monday kicked off with proper chaos, AWS went down taking half the internet with it, including my vibe coding tools, which felt weirdly poetic given what I spent the stream discussing. Gizmodo put out this utterly daft article claiming Andrej Karpathy is a hypocrite for hand-coding his new Nano Chat project after coining the term "vibe coding." They've completely missed the point. Vibe coding is brilliant for the 99% of work that isn't frontier research like — web apps, MVPs, proof of concepts. But when you're literally pushing the envelope on how to build LLMs from scratch, of course you're writing it by hand. The AI doesn't have knowledge of work that hasn't been done yet. It's like saying a Michelin chef is a fraud for not using a microwave. I also dug into this deeply uncomfortable Guardian investigation about charities using AI-generated poverty images in their campaigns. There are literally 63,000 AI-generated poverty images on Freepik alone, and NGOs are buying them instead of using real photos. The intentions might be good—concerns over consent and budget cuts—but it's ethically murky at best. Then we looked at Claude Skills, which are genuinely clever. They're like a token-efficient alternative to MCP—basically markdown files that Claude only loads when relevant, rather than clogging up your entire context window. Simon Willison's breakdown is spot on: you get all the power without the overhead. Much more accessible than mucking about with command line tools.
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—— Time Stamps —— 0:00 Introduction 0:30 Today's Show Overview 1:05 Andrej Karpathy & Vibe Coding Controversy 7:37 AI-Generated Poverty Images in Charity Campaigns 14:54 Claude Skills Deep Dive 22:21 Ethan Mollick's Opinionated Guide to Using AI 30:38 Wrap Up & Newsletter Info
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