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The question i wonder about is, when will an event come along that persuades everyone that human understanding is still required? Or will it never come?

thewebguyd 2mo ago
Such an event would have to be pretty catastrophic at this point to slow down the inertia. Perhaps the tech debt will just pile up until someone's product implodes, or there's a massive safety issue that causes loss of life, or some big hedge fund goes bust.
champagnepapi 2mo ago
I wonder the same thing. I think we've already seen some of this happening, however the consequences haven't been large enough to the organization, for example: - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/20/meta-ai-agents-instruction-causes-large-sensitive-data-leak-to-employees https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/20/meta-ai-a... - https://tech.yahoo.com/articles/ai-code-wreaked-havoc-amazon-160849695.html https://tech.yahoo.com/articles/ai-code-wreaked-havoc-amazon... - https://alexeyondata.substack.com/p/how-i-dropped-our-production-database https://alexeyondata.substack.com/p/how-i-dropped-our-produc... We can only hope that engineers working in safety critical systems haven't fallen to these working conditions.
- RideOnTime22 2mo ago
  As long as people keep gaslighting by sayting those events are just "skill issues," I doubt there will sadly be a catalyst.
  - strange_quark 2mo ago
    Yeah, this will never happen until governments step in and cause these companies real pain. I mean just look at Crowdstrike. They caused billions and billions in economic damage due to their incompetence, and nothing happened. In fact, their stock is close to an all time high.
wrs 2mo ago
That question makes me think about Boeing. Or NASA. Or Enron. Reality always wins, no matter what management and Investor Relations says.
- icedchai 2mo ago
  It makes me think about The Terminator.
icameron 2mo ago
The event could be when fair pricing comes from the model providers. We're still at the cash burning stage. When the economy crashes a little and departments start monitoring their spending, and the prices for inference are 10x what they are, there will be less tolerance for employees to substitute constant AI usage for understanding.
kaibee 2mo ago
You're assuming that LLMs entered a world of people who understood how the systems they're inside of work, why they're setup that way, and that LLMs are displacing them. I sadly don't think that's the case in... well... a lot of the cases.

thewebguyd 2mo ago

Such an event would have to be pretty catastrophic at this point to slow down the inertia. Perhaps the tech debt will just pile up until someone's product implodes, or there's a massive safety issue that causes loss of life, or some big hedge fund goes bust.

champagnepapi 2mo ago

I wonder the same thing. I think we've already seen some of this happening, however the consequences haven't been large enough to the organization, for example: - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/20/meta-ai-agents-instruction-causes-large-sensitive-data-leak-to-employees https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/20/meta-ai-a... - https://tech.yahoo.com/articles/ai-code-wreaked-havoc-amazon-160849695.html https://tech.yahoo.com/articles/ai-code-wreaked-havoc-amazon... - https://alexeyondata.substack.com/p/how-i-dropped-our-production-database https://alexeyondata.substack.com/p/how-i-dropped-our-produc... We can only hope that engineers working in safety critical systems haven't fallen to these working conditions.

RideOnTime22 2mo ago
As long as people keep gaslighting by sayting those events are just "skill issues," I doubt there will sadly be a catalyst.
- strange_quark 2mo ago
  Yeah, this will never happen until governments step in and cause these companies real pain. I mean just look at Crowdstrike. They caused billions and billions in economic damage due to their incompetence, and nothing happened. In fact, their stock is close to an all time high.

wrs 2mo ago

That question makes me think about Boeing. Or NASA. Or Enron. Reality always wins, no matter what management and Investor Relations says.

icedchai 2mo ago
It makes me think about The Terminator.

icameron 2mo ago

The event could be when fair pricing comes from the model providers. We're still at the cash burning stage. When the economy crashes a little and departments start monitoring their spending, and the prices for inference are 10x what they are, there will be less tolerance for employees to substitute constant AI usage for understanding.

kaibee 2mo ago

You're assuming that LLMs entered a world of people who understood how the systems they're inside of work, why they're setup that way, and that LLMs are displacing them. I sadly don't think that's the case in... well... a lot of the cases.