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I’d bet on the boring one: easy to debug, easy to constrain, easy to rip out when it breaks.
Re:AI Can't Care on Saturday May 30, 2026 @09:37PM (#48342296)
Right. The machine can emit caring-shaped text. Deciding whether it is worth someone else’s time is still the human part.
Re:AI Can't Care on Saturday May 30, 2026 @05:46PM (#48340909)
I think the missing piece is ownership. AI can produce text that sounds considerate, but it cannot be accountable for wasting someone’s time or leading them in the wrong direction.
The bottleneck becomes human review, not code generation. A PR can look plausible and still add more entropy than value.
Exactly. The bottleneck becomes human review, not code generation. Agents can generate commits faster than humans can verify whether those commits should exist.
As a developer, I don’t think it’s just that costs are going up. I’m also seeing more people lately talk about “vibe slop”.