This is an angle I've been obsessed with my whole career. We often fixate on the predictive power/or utility of maximizing individual competency/skill/cognition. But it's actually not always the biggest effect you can look for, especially when you've *already selected* on entry to a field!

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clickbait title: letrec considered harmful

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I feel like there are parallels to climate change and veganism in AI individually you're tempted and encouraged to do something that you know is immoral, but you feel like you can't affect things much anyway so why not enjoy the personal benefits while you can, especially if it's become the norm

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To understand why I’m so down on agentic coding I should explain what I think LLMs are good at LLMs are good if you want *consistency* because they are statistical models with extra steps. If you ask them what comes next they’ll bias to what came before … but consistency is *BAD* for programming

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had an earlier conversation about that issue with that community that got shut down AI is removing the natural skill barrier to *participate* by turning in work but it's not removing the skill barrier for that work actually being *useful and valuable to others*

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