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by animuchan 54 days ago
I think there's like the meta-bad AI usage idea, in which all other tarpit ideas take root.

"Let's outsource critical decision making to a language model."

Small scale of this can be seen when attempting to single-shot a whole SaaS by the means of a severely underspecified prompt. This is the first-order blind reliance situation: our SaaS sure is implemented in some way.

Really fiery tarpits put the LLM higher in the stack: let the language model decide what the feature should be. Our SaaS sure does something in some way.

Having a human in the loop at all times doesn't scale. Not having a human scales, but doesn't work.