Very good summary & article about the "Vibe bobsled" effect observed all over LLM-based projects/companies, i.e. the pro...

Very good summary & article about the "Vibe bobsled" effect observed all over LLM-based projects/companies, i.e. the process of people/orgs relinquishing control and comprehension/planning of their own codebases to LLMs & agents...https://dustycloud.org/blog/faulty-towers-vibe-sickness-and-the-vibe-bobsled/"At the top of the chute, people tell themselves they're going to use these tools as a kind of fancy autocomplete. As they descend, they say they'll spin up some agents to explore ideas, but they'll write the code themselves. Next their agents are generating the code for them, but don't worry, but they'll review all the output. Soon they're plummeting downward and well, they don't actually review the code being spat out much anymore, but they trust the agents, heck maybe the agents are actually better coders than they are they say. And where does it go from there? From "I don't even code anymore" to "I don't even prompt anymore"?At every stage of the process, the coder in question re...

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