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Re:Resisting Cognitive Surrender by hypfer on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @01:24AM (#50348734)
The most difficult part of LLMs and agents seems to be - surprisingly - humans.

Specifically, humans and their dysfunctions. Their fragility. Their ego tied to stuff.

This is an excellent post/reflection on the topic of solo LLM use. The only gap I see is that it assumes that one works on something alone and not in a team. Though, that might be a different essay in itself.

Re:Resisting Cognitive Surrender by quibono on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @07:03AM (#50350937)
On the ego-effect, I sometimes feel like cataloguing some PR-review quirks that are mostly caused by humans being humans:

1. Smaller PRs (that can be easily read) tend to receive more comments and nitpicks than a large change since it's easier for us to have all the PR context in our heads at the same time.

2. Most people are ego-tied to their code even if they pretend that they are impartial

3. Social dynamics around merging and reviewing code between senior/junior and older/newer employees

4. probably many more