Post #4502680
2026-08-10 23:44 UTC
It's happening in the open source community but it's also happening on corporate teams. Everyone racing to hit KPI mandates, assuming that surely the infra team won't risk the vigilance decrement that comes along with LLMs, surely *they'll* slowly and carefully build by hand so that *our* app can run atop it. The infra teams rely on OSS libraries, the libraries rely on the kernel. Everyone assuming that they can be a bit less careful and let the quality slide just a bit to get more velocity
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@glyph@mastodon.social 2026-08-10 23:51
And of course — this has ALWAYS been a problem. The Challenger didn't need an LLM to blow up. "Eating your seed corn" is not an expression about OpenAI. There's always this temptation to erode the margin of safety. But we had a few decades there where the combination of cultural capital, ZIRP, and an amount of earnest idealism that people outside the SF bay tech cultural archipelago often don't appreciate, let us create something that mostly looked like it worked.