[causal]

What's it called when you choose a task because it's easy, even if it's not what you need to do at all? I think that's what LLMs have activated in a lot of us: writing code used to be kinda hard, but now it's super easy, so let's just write more code.

The hard parts of engineering have always been decision making, socializing, and validating ideas against cold hard reality. But writing code just got easier so let's do that instead.

Prior to LLMs writing 10 lines of code might have been a really productive day, especially if we were able to thoughtfully avoid writing 1,000 unnecessary lines. LLMs do not change this.

[Velorivox]

I'm not sure if there's a name for that specifically, but it seems strongly related to the streetlight effect. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetlight_effect

[causal]

Yeah very apt