[Grimblewald]

I think all this started with post opus 4.5, that's when claude started wrecking my shit without extreme oversight. Codebases it was making positive contributions to before were slowly and constantly being eroded and wrecked. Give it tasks in isolation? still does well, but the moment it sees the bigger picture, it goes to shit. I chalked it up to a bad model but this makes it all seem like it may have been by design in retrospect.

[jiggawatts]

Constraint decay is an issue with all LLM-based agentic development, at least for now.

Humans can maintain a long- and medium- term memory of constraints that they consciously (or subconsciously!) apply to the code that they write. The current crop of AIs are all amnesiacs, like the protagonist in Memento, falling back onto general instead of institutional knowledge.

For now, we are safe. We can rent out our meat brains for money for a little while longer.

Next year? Who knows...