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Re: The operating cost starts after the demo

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Well put, and I think the problem extends beyond agentic systems to regular software. Someone in an organisation whips up a useful product, publishes it and is now on the hook for bug fixes, feature requests and operations. The maintenance cost is often much larger than the cost of building it now that producing an MVP is so easy.

Re: The operating cost starts after the demo

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Writing about the operating cost of AI tools while the whole article is a complete AI slop. :)

Whether written with AI or not, I don't necessarily agree with the sentiment that it's AI slop. We too often only categorize between no AI used and AI slop.

Does them using AI to write the article invalidate the points stated in any way? I personally don't think so. I too am weary of constant bombardment with AI but at the same time being against something just because AI was in the loop isn't much better, if at all.

Re: The operating cost starts after the demo

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post #6

Writing about the operating cost of AI tools while the whole article is a complete AI slop. :)

Whether written with AI or not, I don't necessarily agree with the sentiment that it's AI slop . We too often only categorize between no AI used and AI slop. Does them using AI to write the article invalidate the points stated in any way? I personally don't think so. I too am weary of constant bombardment with AI but at the same time being against something just because AI was in the loop isn't much better, if at all…

I see no issues in articles where AI was in the loop or made the article better than it otherwise would have been. Why not?

But if 100% is generated by AI - and you just prompted it - then I would like to avoid that piece. Personally.

Re: The operating cost starts after the demo

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post #6

Writing about the operating cost of AI tools while the whole article is a complete AI slop. :)

Whether written with AI or not, I don't necessarily agree with the sentiment that it's AI slop . We too often only categorize between no AI used and AI slop. Does them using AI to write the article invalidate the points stated in any way? I personally don't think so. I too am weary of constant bombardment with AI but at the same time being against something just because AI was in the loop isn't much better, if at all…

> We too often only categorize between no AI used and AI slop

We do not. You might have not noticed but we don't discuss the use of AI when nobody notices that AI was used.

Re: The operating cost starts after the demo

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post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Whether written with AI or not, I don't necessarily agree with the sentiment that it's AI slop . We too often only categorize between no AI used and AI slop. Does them using AI to write the article invalidate the points stated in any way? I personally don't think so. I too am weary of constant bombardment with AI but at the same time being against something just because AI was in the loop isn't much better, if at all…

> We too often only categorize between no AI used and AI slop We do not. You might have not noticed but we don't discuss the use of AI when nobody notices that AI was used.

Yeah of course not. When nobody notices, then there is nothing to discuss. Otherwise it would just be conjecuture. And by that logic anything where AI is noticable would be categorizable as AI slop. Which is exactly what I'm criticizing
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