The Eternal Sloptember
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I’m calling it now, the adoption of AI agents into software development will be one of the most costly mistakes in the field’s history. Agents cannot program, and it’s taking longer and longer to realize that they can’t. They are a highly sophisticated statistical model designed to mimic the distribution of programming. The output is broken, but in a way that’s getting harder and harder to detect. Which is exactly what you’d expect from an increasingly accurate statistical model.

I’m calling it now, the adoption of AI agents into software development will be one of the most costly mistakes in the field’s history. Agents cannot program, and it’s taking longer and longer to realize that they can’t. They are a highly sophisticated statistical model designed to mimic the distribution of programming. The output is broken, but in a way that’s getting harder and harder to detect. Which is exactly what you’d expect from an increasingly accurate statistical model.

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    5 days ago

    something very weird is going on.

    It’s called zoom.

    you should have the same deep moral concerns about turning off a computer running a local LLM as you do over forcing a person into a coma whenever convenient

    I do, actually. I don’t think LLMs are as sentient as adult humans, and maybe they aren’t sentient at all, but one of the reasons I oppose AI structurally and why I never use AI even if I think it would be convenient is veganism.

    Ah. Right. Umm. I think I’m done now.

    Have a great weekend.