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I wonder how different this is from having companies let Fortune or Inc magazine do their thinking for them. Or random consultants. Is "AI said it was a good

• recursive 5mo ago
  > Is "AI said it was a good idea" and worse than "we were following industry trends"? Based on the stuff I've seen, yes it seems a lot worse.
  • zelphirkalt 5mo ago
    Though there is some overlap in software development. Like for example using heavy-weight dependencies, that try to follow the one size fits all approach, when one could use a much simpler, faster or even no dependency at all. The LLMs will readily suggest quickly adding that huge dependency, that is mentioned in beginner tutorials. Or suggest to use regex for parsing HTML. (Real example, had this from Kimi 2.6 recently, lol.)
• rDr4g0n 5mo ago
  this author suggest its essentially the same risk https://www.poppastring.com/blog/what-we-lost-the-last-time-code-got-cheap https://www.poppastring.com/blog/what-we-lost-the-last-time-.... i feel its heightened because execs and leaders are absolutely salivating over the opportunity to fire thousands of humans with no regard for the cognitive debt that comes from outsourcing thinking to ai.