2026-07-21 11:25 UTC
@filiph@mastodon.social I don't think people are actually making useful things in one day. Instead I've seen AI hackathons where 200 teams run agentic workflows nonstop for three days, then present, then forget about it. Many new slop projects are abandoned within days. And agentic is definitely maxing out the context windows - even a single auto-complete when you just pause the cursor will send the whole file, so that's thousands of tokens in the context just like that. Single-use plastics all over again.
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@chebra@mstdn.io 2026-07-21 11:28
@filiph@mastodon.social In fact there are studies showing that many people are just converting PDFs by AI (how many tokens is a PDF?), so clearly an indication that we cannot assume the "useful thing worth one day of watching TV" measure. That's simply not happening right now.