Earlier quoted context omitted.
Spoiler: it's not
Risk aversion is a tradeoff, not always a weakness.
The people using the LLMs are the risk, not the LLMs themselves
I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis
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#252I think AI rescue consulting is going to be come a significant mode of high value consulting, similar to specialists who come in to try and deal with a security breach or do data recovery. Purely AI written systems will scale to a point of complexity that no human can ever understand and the defect close rate will taper down and the token burn per defect rate scale up and eventually AI changes will cause on average m…
"Purely AI written systems will scale to a point of complexity" You have not seen the spreadsheets that accounts run the firm on. Bloody kids!
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Re: I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis
#253I think AI rescue consulting is going to be come a significant mode of high value consulting, similar to specialists who come in to try and deal with a security breach or do data recovery. Purely AI written systems will scale to a point of complexity that no human can ever understand and the defect close rate will taper down and the token burn per defect rate scale up and eventually AI changes will cause on average m…
I'm sure AI capabilities will plateau any moment now..
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#254Earlier quoted context omitted.
A non-technical friend of mine has just won some hospital contracts after vibecoding w/ Claude an inventory management solution for them. They gave him access to IT dept servers and he called me extremely lost on how to deploy (cant connect Claude to them) and also frustrated because the app has some sort of interesting data/state issues.
Don't help him. Let him figure it out by himself, else they (he and hospital) will never learn.
A hospital could not learn a bigger lesson from this person than their existing big players.
(Screams in "deployed in 2026 a new product that only works in internet explorer" in healthcare).
Re: I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis
#255Amazing how the dev community is suffering from a similar inability to approach the subject of real world AI efficiencies and business benefits. I don’t think it’s helpful to accuse the other side of psychosis. It disqualifies any data or experience they bring to the conversation.
It is not the dev community writ large, it is a particular archetype among forum users, particularly common among forums with upvote mechanics
Re: I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis
#256I think AI rescue consulting is going to be come a significant mode of high value consulting, similar to specialists who come in to try and deal with a security breach or do data recovery. Purely AI written systems will scale to a point of complexity that no human can ever understand and the defect close rate will taper down and the token burn per defect rate scale up and eventually AI changes will cause on average m…
As the models keep improving, wouldn’t you be able to task a newer AI to “clean up this mess”?
How is a newer AI going to "clean up" dropped databases, compromised computers or leaked personal data?
(None of above is theoretical)
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#257This post calls out how you can't argue with these people because they say its fine to ship bugs because the agents will fix them so quickly and at a scale humans can't do!" the top reply is from someone doing exactly that, arguing "but the agents are so fast!"
Yeah how do they know the fix doesn't have a bug and it will just keep deploying mire crap. What is the feedback loop, the customer?
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#258Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think that will happen. I think several things can be true at the same time: - AI Hype - AI Psychosis - AI keeps getting better and better until it can work around big AI slop code bases
> AI keeps getting better and better until it can work around big AI slop code bases The belief in this is a form of AI psychosis, I think. Maybe in the future but certainly no evidence of this anytime soon
No evidence? Chatgpt came out 3 years ago. You basically just need to stick a ruler up on a curve
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#259I think AI rescue consulting is going to be come a significant mode of high value consulting, similar to specialists who come in to try and deal with a security breach or do data recovery. Purely AI written systems will scale to a point of complexity that no human can ever understand and the defect close rate will taper down and the token burn per defect rate scale up and eventually AI changes will cause on average m…
> reach a stable set of design principles
Are you sure about this? Yes, there is a stable set, but they are used in all of the wrong places, particularly in places where they don't belong because juniors and now AIs can recite them and want to use them everywhere. That's not even discussing whether the stable set itself is correct or not - it's dubious at this point.
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#260Maybe this is what will turn software engineering into an Engineering field.
Right know, prompters are setting up whole company infrastructure. I personally know one. He migrated the companies database to a newer Postgres version. He was successful in the end, but I was gnawing my teeth when he described every step of the process.
It sounded like "And then, I poured gasoline on the servers while smoking a cigarette. But don't worry, I found a fire extinguisher in the basement. The gauge says it's empty, but I can still hear some liquid when I shake it..."
If he leaves the company, they will need an even more confident prompter to maintain their DB infrastructure.