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Sounds a lot like "self-driving" cars - "they are good enough 95%+ of the time, you’re not going to pay as much attention as you should". Same thing happens he

by jonah 6mo ago

Sounds a lot like "self-driving" cars - "they are good enough 95%+ of the time, you’re not going to pay as much attention as you should". Same thing happens here, you get complacent and miss critical failures or problems. It's also similar in that it "take[s away] many of the fun parts". When I can focus on simply driving it can be engaging and enjoyable - no matter the road or traffic or whatever.

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gruez 6mo ago
>Sounds a lot like "self-driving" cars - "they are good enough 95%+ of the time, you’re not going to pay as much attention as you should". That might be an issue for supervised "self-driving" cars (eg. tesla FSD), but not really applicable to self driving cars as a whole. Waymo seems to be doing just fine for instance.
- jonah 6mo ago
  Exactly why I put "self-driving" in quotes. Right now AI assisted coding might generally be at the equivalent of Level-2 or -3 self-driving. Getting to autonomous coding agents will be like the step change that is Level-4 or -5 driving.
- teatro 6mo ago
  Aren’t Waymo‘s 5% covered by some people in the Philippines? [1] And aren’t they still failing occasionally? [2] [1](https://www.techspot.com/news/111233-waymo-admits-autopilot-often-guys-philippines.html https://www.techspot.com/news/111233-waymo-admits-autopilot-...) [2] (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-23/waymo-probed-by-us-safety-agency-over-austin-school-bus-mishaps https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-23/waymo-pro...)
  - gruez 6mo ago
    >Aren’t Waymo‘s 5% covered by some people in the Philippines? [1] If you look at waymo's prior blog posts, you'll realize that the people in Philippines aren't making split second decisions that was implied by "you’re not going to pay as much attention as you should". https://waymo.com/blog/2024/05/fleet-response https://waymo.com/blog/2024/05/fleet-response >And aren’t they still failing occasionally? [2] What's the failure rate of humans? For both AI drivers and coders, if they make less mistakes than humans, that's still a win.
    - stavros 6mo ago
      > What's the failure rate of humans? 5x more than Waymos, last I saw.

by jonah 6mo ago

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gruez 6mo ago

>Sounds a lot like "self-driving" cars - "they are good enough 95%+ of the time, you’re not going to pay as much attention as you should". That might be an issue for supervised "self-driving" cars (eg. tesla FSD), but not really applicable to self driving cars as a whole. Waymo seems to be doing just fine for instance.

jonah 6mo ago
Exactly why I put "self-driving" in quotes. Right now AI assisted coding might generally be at the equivalent of Level-2 or -3 self-driving. Getting to autonomous coding agents will be like the step change that is Level-4 or -5 driving.
teatro 6mo ago
Aren’t Waymo‘s 5% covered by some people in the Philippines? [1] And aren’t they still failing occasionally? [2] [1](https://www.techspot.com/news/111233-waymo-admits-autopilot-often-guys-philippines.html https://www.techspot.com/news/111233-waymo-admits-autopilot-...) [2] (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-23/waymo-probed-by-us-safety-agency-over-austin-school-bus-mishaps https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-23/waymo-pro...)
- gruez 6mo ago
  >Aren’t Waymo‘s 5% covered by some people in the Philippines? [1] If you look at waymo's prior blog posts, you'll realize that the people in Philippines aren't making split second decisions that was implied by "you’re not going to pay as much attention as you should". https://waymo.com/blog/2024/05/fleet-response https://waymo.com/blog/2024/05/fleet-response >And aren’t they still failing occasionally? [2] What's the failure rate of humans? For both AI drivers and coders, if they make less mistakes than humans, that's still a win.
  - stavros 6mo ago
    > What's the failure rate of humans? 5x more than Waymos, last I saw.