I am simultaneously deep down in the agentic treadmill and also supremely frustrated by this.

And I don't think it was ever necessary to go to the point where people just gave up authorship. These were choices made by adopting the "I'll do everything for you" agentic "harness" model that shipped with Claude Code but it was never inevitable.

e.g. we completely dropped fill-in-the-middle completion OG CoPilot auto completion model. That combined AI authorship with a human always in the mix and I actually really enjoyed it. It's just that the models involved were pretty stupid. We totally could have had IDE / shell / tooling integration that kept people in the driver's seat while automating parts of the drudgery away. Instead what we got was a simple chat loop with "oh, whatever, you go do it" being the ultimate result. Cuz, you'll totally review everything after and understand it, right?

The things should end by quizzing you on what was just made and if you don't pass, just throw it away. That'd be funny to watch.

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dannyw 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Our brains are hard-wired to enjoy (at least in the short term) immediate gratification, and the removal of friction. It's a hard battle to fight.

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d0mine 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Have you ever asked a long distance runner how are they feeling during a run?

	▲	danielbln 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Long distance runner here, feels amazing from start to finish. Ok, amazing maybe only during runners high, but definitely good all the way through. Running sucks until it doesn't.
	▲	kaffekaka 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Running (especially long distance) is both immediate and long term satisfaction to me. Exhausting but very enjoyable.

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cmrdporcupine 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Imagine if you will two product proposals coming across Dario's desk.

One is:

1) Complex IDE integration where our AI model is called to assist users in making decisions, assisting them to do the things they already intended to do. It appears more as a function of the IDE rather than something separate. It shows off the intelligence of the model but doesn't show off any autonomy.

2) A separate tool that can be branded Anthropic. It takes over completely. It advances the narrative that we've already been spreading that AI is going to make some human jobs obsolete. It looks to employers (the actual people who spend money) like it replaces an expensive developer even if at first it requires one. It has minimal to no integration point.

Which do you think they'll approve. I think it has less to do with the user motivation and more with the producer's.

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