Bluesky Wrapped

Why do some have a shit time with LLMs for programming while others love it? To succeed, the latter group tacitly creates tons of scaffolding and gain weird new skills. While it works, this posts explains how doing all that is an incidental consequence of bad interaction design in coding AI agents.

Reading yet another post asserting all you need is a human doing careful continuous supervision of the automation and it’s gonna be perfectly fine, as I grind my own teeth into dust while 40+ years of research and industry reports flash through my mind like war footage in a ptsd movie scene

People tend to have a mental model where a system is stable until disturbed, far more often than they have one where the system is balanced because it is constantly intervened with. The latter is a more useful approach to thinking about complex systems.