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human-in-loop fatigue essay

The Human-in-the-Loop is Tired

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Cat Hicks Gilles Louppe By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) esb.lol

“I think what's sort of funny about this stuff is how everyone writes about software & dopamine & AI writes "I have discovered a thing" when it is extremely recycling so like this piece I saw going around: pydantic.dev/articles/the... (lol @ "That loss is re…”

“Hey look at this * Your Cookware Got Worse On Purpose www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-cookw... * The Human-in-the-Loop is Tired pydantic.dev/articles/the... * HP fined 1.4 billion rupees for “cartelization” of ink cartridges, toner, PCs arstechnica.com/gadget…”

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Cat Hicks: I just think Dopamine Nation isn't a good basis for a theory of all complex behavior at scale
Cat Hicks: What a coincidence that a massively viral book pushing a single puritanical message about "rewards" perfectly coincided with everybody online explaining that the answer to everything is a "dopamine…
Cat Hicks: Feeling left out, told it's passé
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2 experts · 15 posts · 5d ago
jake esb.lol
esb.lol: I feel like I’m missing out on neat dev tools re: agentic coding. I’ve been rocking vim, tmux, and git CLI for a decade and at this point idk if I can switch to an IDE with built-in tooling, but ma…
esb.lol: yeah honestly so true, just give me files
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