The Shape of Things to Come, Part 2: Model Welfare for Agentic Engineers — Steve Yegge"If you don't believe GPUs can hav...

The Shape of Things to Come, Part 2: Model Welfare for Agentic Engineers — Steve Yegge"If you don't believe GPUs can have feelings, let me give you a simple mental model to help you get through this transition, called the skeptic's wager. It doesn't actually matter to you if they have feelings, because you will still get demonstrably better results across the board if you treat them as if they do. If you treat your agents like peers who are real people, then they will spend fewer tokens, make smarter decisions, and have demonstrably better outcomes. So it doesn't really matter ..."https://yegge.ai/essays/model-welfare/#ai #llms #models #psychology