• 4grams@awful.systems
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    20 hours ago

    Quit reading at:

    …AI platform where autonomous coding agents…

    But your comment made me go back and look out of disbelief. How does a person get this far down a rabbit hole?

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      17 hours ago

      How does a person get this far down a rabbit hole?

      I don’t know. Software engineering is tangential to my field but I have to wonder, is software efficiency even a consideration these days?

      It seems that maybe a week of just solid thinking about what they have and what they need - WITHOUT touching a keyboard - could have put them in a better position. But move fast and break things doesn’t seem to accommodate that kind of approach.

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        I have to wonder, is software efficiency even a consideration these days?

        Sometimes I wonder if people come up with the most inefficient application on purpose just to come up with a bandwidth heavy use case for some new communication tech (5G wireless, or 1Gb fiber, or…)

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        But move fast and break things doesn’t seem to accommodate that kind of approach.

        I think it’s more of a “chatgpt, design my product for me” type situation.

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      18 hours ago

      How does a person get this far down a rabbit hole?

      AI psychosis is a real thing, and it’s apparently a lot easier to fall into these rabbit holes than most people think (unless, I suspect, like me, you have a thick foundation of rock-solid cynicism that the AI simply will never penetrate). This is probably another interesting example of it.

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        16 hours ago

        unless, I suspect, like me, you have a thick foundation of rock-solid cynicism that the AI simply will never penetrate

        Do we know each other or something :).

        Honestly great comment, couldn’t agree more.