I tried to check it out after hearing about how much it has influenced Zaki’s work, but I couldn’t even get through the first chapter. Just too dark and edgy for me to enjoy. Teenaged me would have loved it, though.

This feels like the same principle as “measure twice, cut once”

No bro you don’t understand, Claude needs access to backups so it can restore them in case something breaks because our senior dev ($50k, 2YoE) doesn’t know how to do it

In case anyone else is curious, the essay is simply titled “On Noise.”

Edit: here’s a Project Gutenberg link

The problem is that LLMs inherently lack the virtue of laziness. Work costs nothing to an LLM. LLMs do not feel a need to optimize for their own (or anyone’s) future time, and will happily dump more and more onto a layercake of garbage.

This is an insightful point I haven’t seen made before. I’m going to start referring to vibe code as “subprime technical debt”

I’m in between 3 and 4: both copyright and copying are amoral (they are just tools), but copyright as it exists today is obsolete, arguably to the point that it actively hinders the betterment of humankind.

Personally I’d say every single product and service being transparently wrapped in a personal information honeypot