Post #681833

2026-03-11 23:37 UTC

Oh, it just clicked: LLM hype is what you get when you stack outsourcing hype on top of no code hype and tech silver bullet hype. So it&#39;s not one hype cycle, it&#39;s multiple hype cycles running in parallel, and it may not be clear which of them any given proponent is afflicted by.

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@ancoghlan@mastodon.social 2026-03-12 23:51

Huh, had a fascinating conversation today that made me realise the agentic AI cost & risk conversation looks *very* different when you consider it from the point of view of an organisation that *already* outsources a lot of their internal software development to third party suppliers, as it's a matter of taking the project management & QA processes you already wrap around your outsourcing vendors, and wrapping those around an agentic AI backed development process instead.

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@alys@selfy.army 2026-03-12 05:29

@ancoghlan@mastodon.social the double cicada brood of tech hype.

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@ducker@union.place 2026-03-13 00:28

@ancoghlan@mastodon.social I think this is what my geology prof calls #resonance When seismic waves match up with a building's natural waves, the building can be destroyed. That's the science behind various architectural ways to buil earthquake resistant buildings. These hype cycles synching up probably works the same way.

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@hugo@social.treehouse.systems 2026-03-13 14:10

@ancoghlan@mastodon.social so, three hype cycles in a trenchcoat?

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@oscherler@tooting.ch 2026-03-16 22:44

@ancoghlan@mastodon.social You nailed it.

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