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Re: Don't be a meat proxy

#781

Post by af4oz » Fri, Aug 07, 2026, 11:44 AM UTC

rglover wrote: post #369

jpnc wrote: post #2

If you create a machine for laziness you're going to get lazy people. It's only going to get worse I'm afraid. Do you guys think we're going to see a de-evolution of human beings due to technology?

I think we're going to see a sort of "intelligence caste" form. People who overuse AI and atrophy their brain's ability to think will be on the bottom, while the inverse of those people will be on top. This is somewhat good news because it means the end (to some extent) of the Peter Principle. My hope, though, is that this doesn't turn into an actual caste system, but I'm not holding my breath. I think that's where t…

go & solve Millennium Prize Problems motherfucker

Re: Don't be a meat proxy

#782

Post by pawelkomarnicki » Fri, Aug 07, 2026, 12:33 PM UTC

Responding with “Claude said:” is a sign of either a “I don’t care” or incompetence. Do what you will with that

Re: Don't be a meat proxy

#783

Post by ariod » Fri, Aug 07, 2026, 1:06 PM UTC

Great post. I'm seeing the same behavior way too often, so much that I also wrote a blog post about it some time ago: https://darios.blog/posts/owning-technical-decisions-in-the-...

Re: Don't be a meat proxy

#784

Post by swapnil-tamse » Sat, Aug 08, 2026, 2:28 AM UTC

I added an interactive tool based on it: https://meatproxy.swapniltamse.com/

Re: Don't be a meat proxy

#785

Post by rocho » Sat, Aug 08, 2026, 9:56 AM UTC

Applejinx wrote: post #240

jpnc wrote: post #2

If you create a machine for laziness you're going to get lazy people. It's only going to get worse I'm afraid. Do you guys think we're going to see a de-evolution of human beings due to technology?

Alcohol has existed for zillions of years, but not literally every person is a useless drunkard. You could consider it a class of predator on people who have vulnerabilities that can give way to dependence on the LLM and an inability to function. It could be seen in that light. The underlying problem is being described in that light.

Strawman. There's very little pressure, if any, to drink all the time. On the other hand, businesses are pressing employees to constantly use AI tools. The sad fact is that in many cases, they do result in faster work, but at the same time they carry so many negative effects for the individuals.

Re: Don't be a meat proxy

#786

Post by rufasterisco » Sat, Aug 08, 2026, 1:23 PM UTC

ltbarcly3 wrote: post #779

rufasterisco wrote: post #763

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Added to my reading list, thanks. I was not really thinking in terms of reusing all knowledge at once. It is useful to be able to see what was the reasoning behind a single PR to discriminate for effort. The difference between copy+paste+yes+yes+yes+open-pr and asking n relevant questions about the code is what tends to matter. Also, suppose after a few months you need to look at that code again. Having the possibili…

I think it might be more useful to store a summary of the key decisions, but with mistakes, AI fumbles, iterating on test failures, and all the noise boiled out. If you kept, maybe as part of the commit log a summary of the AI discussion leading to that commit I could set that as very valuable.

I went there, and walked back to full sessions, mostly to be able to resume chats.

As a general principle, why would i want to lose precision? A senior might care about seeing a junior conversation to provide advice. A colleague might spot another one making as different assumptions about X, and have a chat about it. AI grepped file XX instead of XY and made a wrong decision based on that. An engineering manager might care about completely different metrics.

But to your point, think it's fair to say that there isn't a single correct answer to this: different people like different stuff and at eventually standards will emerge (or not).

Re: Don't be a meat proxy

#787

Post by rglover » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 4:55 PM UTC

af4oz wrote: post #781

rglover wrote: post #369

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think we're going to see a sort of "intelligence caste" form. People who overuse AI and atrophy their brain's ability to think will be on the bottom, while the inverse of those people will be on top. This is somewhat good news because it means the end (to some extent) of the Peter Principle. My hope, though, is that this doesn't turn into an actual caste system, but I'm not holding my breath. I think that's where t…

go & solve Millennium Prize Problems motherfucker

I'm about as good at math as I am convincing my wife I'm god's gift to women.