Re:Conductor Is Joining Meta
by torginus on Thursday November 05, 2026 @11:21AM
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I dont wanna hate on this particular project, and I fully assume the possibility of PEBKAC, but I feel like my golden era of AI development was sometime during when I had a chat window in VS Code, and asked AI to make edits.
Since then my company has 2 subsequent AI transformations, during the first we went fully agentic, and agents started pushing in 10k LOC PRs after churning away at the problem for hours.
Even then I felt a profound loss of control, but now we are trying to take the next step, and even automate more stuff, and remove other bottlenecks, like CI/CD or VCS or ticketing, to cope with pushing an order of magnitude more code even than previously.
So I'm feeling the exponentials, also the profound loss of control, and not having the faintest idea of what's going on. Now I understand how people get AI psychosis.
As for the results, they are.... not there's a lot of things going on and I suspect most of said complexity is incidental.
Since then my company has 2 subsequent AI transformations, during the first we went fully agentic, and agents started pushing in 10k LOC PRs after churning away at the problem for hours.
Even then I felt a profound loss of control, but now we are trying to take the next step, and even automate more stuff, and remove other bottlenecks, like CI/CD or VCS or ticketing, to cope with pushing an order of magnitude more code even than previously.
So I'm feeling the exponentials, also the profound loss of control, and not having the faintest idea of what's going on. Now I understand how people get AI psychosis.
As for the results, they are.... not there's a lot of things going on and I suspect most of said complexity is incidental.