@cwebber For the completionists and the faded of memory: https://www.megaministore.com/exotica/fawlty-towers-sign-letters

@cwebber this is a great post! I recently wrote about how I’m using AI, and I think that part of what’s creating the bobsled effect is that LLMs are actively being trained to fight this impulse. I use the web interface exclusively now in order to enforce my own self imposed rules, and it’s still a constant battle to prevent a “let me code for you, but keep talking to me” death spiral.

@cwebber @sundogplanets so much this

@cwebber code review is hard when you're riding the bobsled! other "fun" examples of how "obvious" code can be dangerously wrong are the entries in the Underhanded C Contest (which unfortunately hasn't been run in ten years). https://underhanded-c.org/

@cwebber

Here's another way "LLMs are in the air and you can't not breathe them" manifests: if you are a librarian, you index texts so that people can find them. But LLMs keep generating texts that look like human ones to such a degree that they will fool an automated indexing process. No one wants to find the LLM texts since they are slop, but -- if you are a librarian, your index still fills up with them so the human ones can't be found, even though you've never used LLMs.

Thanks to @glyph for some good quotes and also the term "vibe sickness", though I am not sure if that is @glyph who coined the term or not.