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Re:LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don... by gaiagraphia on Sunday June 07, 2026 @10:04AM (#48434986)
Isn't that a net positive though? (not sure about the cost human and tech cost). I'm guessing that without using Mythos, those conversations would never have been had, and confidence in the compliance of the product would've been lower.

I love using AI tools as casinos. It's epic in helping to forge ideas and kickstart thought processes. You basically have the entirety of world knowledge at your fingertips to have a pint with.

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Re:LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don... by vulcan01 on Sunday June 07, 2026 @10:09AM (#48435037)
your parent:

> the code in question had already been reviewed by human counsel

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Re:LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don... by johnbarron on Sunday June 07, 2026 @10:18AM (#48435121)
They cant read all comments they comment on...
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Re:LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don... by cucumber3732842 on Sunday June 07, 2026 @10:08AM (#48435028)
> I'm guessing that without using Mythos, those conversations would never have been had, and confidence in the compliance of the product would've been lower.

The conversations had already been had and the product made compliant. Mythos just pulled new rules out of its ass and of course the product wasn't compliant with those. So they do a fire drill and find that to be the case at great expense.

Yeah you can frame it as "more checking is always better" if you wanted but that's just the same old "other people's resources are valueless" slight of hand we see on everything. It probably was mostly wasteful work.

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Re:LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don... by hedora on Sunday June 07, 2026 @12:02PM (#48436118)
There's a chapter in Simple Sabotage about how to undermine a white collar organization from the inside. One of the key tactics is to hold meetings that revisit decided upon points, and to invent unnecessary process / checking.

So, in this case, the LLM's behavior was equivalent to the behavior of the resistance during WWII.

I think that book should be required reading for all engineering students.

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